overcast and hot

this is the last hurrah for holiday weekends in town. we have mass craziness on memorial day ending on labor day. the boaters come out of the woodwork to party on the lake and show off their boats. it is really slow in the shop today (as every year) as everyone is out on the water. nice for being tired, but not great for business. hopefully the recession will not affect us to the point of having to close. we still have work to do, but many places have shut down in town already and more are feeling threatened to. scary for self-employeed people like ourselves. we are still the busiest shop in town, but people are doing enough to get by right now instead of redoing whole boats or having specialty things made. everyone is waiting for the economy to pick up. it is an interesting cycle. you have to buy things to create demand, you have to work to make money to buy things. it is amazing to me how many people are living off of disability and food stamps, trying not to work so they can still qualify for assistance which we working folks are paying for. i do not understand the welfare system or the disability system. if your foot is broken are you then unable to find a job using your hands or something else? i think we should impose a time limit for assistance for people unwilling to work. why are we paying for women to have more babies if we are paying for welfare for the children she already has? why can't we limit coverage to the kids and her at the time of application and any pregnancies will be uncovered? i bet more people will figure out how to use birthcontrol or get their tubes tied. if a mother has a baby under the influence of drugs, why can't we give her a tubal ligation to insure that the pattern doesn't continue. these babies are often mentally affected and will never be productive members of society and we continue to allow the same mother to have more of them for us to support and have to raise and further add more welfare cases to our country. this cycle has got to stop. i am convinced that we can maintain a more stable society and economy if we manage from the bottom and try to encourage healthy, capable humans to populate. it is very scary to me when i go places to people watch and see the masses of "brain deprived" parents raising children who in most cases will turn out just a little futher brain deprived.