Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Being with family and friends, living the la dolce vita, looking through rose colored glasses, walking on greener pastures...not reading about GMH, non-paid retirement fun interest fees, GPSS problems with 600 students and not enough classrooms and non enough teachers? Being away was like having ones head deep in the sand....the problems weren't there which meant....the problem didn't exist....and for the most part for me, it doesn't. Two kids far and away...don't need GPSS and or their teachers or buses...if kids return they'll work in the private sector and will rely on Uncle Sam for retirement. Stopped for a paper and read that people (the aged wanting to retire) were still painfully employed because the government took their hard earned dollars but didn't give it to the retirement fund and therefore can't retire.....yet, these same people were given pay increments by a government which is too broke to pay for way past due and delinquent bills.
But, life will never be perfect. It's not a perfect world. There'll always be mountains and there'll always be valleys. The victors will be those that can adapt and can survive in either world. Those of us who choose to live here have adapted quite well. There are many who share our DNA in CONUS that wish they were back here in the land of lemon powder, achote, pugua, pupulu, tetiyas harina yan kelaguen'benadu that would put up with what makes it to the news at six or the headlines in the morning fish wrap....
I used to think that we were the only ones with keystone cops but having watched the ones in Aruba, think that we can send our there to teach there how to be better detectives.....personally, those people would work harder at solving the girl's disappearance if the Americans threatened to boycott the island.....hitting the pocketbook always hits home hardest, wonder why they haven't done that yet!