25 October 2012 Six years ago it snowed

          Six years ago, we took possession of this house.  An early morning legal meeting, lots of signatures, and we set out from urban to rural Tennessee.  It was nearly noon when we arrived, both SUVs loaded from floorboards to no rear vision available. 

          As we unfolded ourselves from the vehicles and stepped onto the driveway, it began to snow.  Not a heavy snow; not even a wet snow.  It lasted only a few minutes and did not accumulate on any flat surface. 

          It was just enough snow to reinforce the fact that we had moved from Florida with hurricanes to the Appalachian edge of Tennessee with snow, ice storms, and four seasons.
 Today, we have highs in the 80 s with the promise of a hurricane exiting the Caribbean then turning into the Atlantic coast of N. America.  It may be an eventful end to October 2012. 

          That day, G.W. Bush was in his last term, our troops were dying in Iraq, and dying neglected in Afghanistan.  There was hope that we might withdraw from Iraq but no guarantees of any cessation from the Bush-Cheney wars. 

          Now, six years later, the economy that Bush-Cheney allowed to be gutted is in danger of being further gutted by a pair of men who believe that the best way to help the poor is to let them die quickly.  Romney-Ryan, if left unchecked, will make the Bush-Cheney recession look like a bed-time story.  They will destroy the former middle class and sell the nation’s resources to the highest bidder.  They will continue the process of off shoring and outsourcing every job left in America. 

          If we had known 6 years ago what we know today, we’d have driven a bit longer and further.