When I was growing up, there were two sexes. Slice it or dice it anyway you like: it was male and female. Slice and dice it anyway you want, chromosomes don’t change. I know there is a medical term for when people are born with both sets (hermaphrodite). No wonder there is so much confusion with 63 categories of sexual orientation. 

When I worked for two other business, I knew two people to become the opposite sex. They underwent hormone treatments, but not complete surgical procedures. They were happy. No one said anything or harassed. We were too busy with our own personal lives.

Now some states will allow on driver’s licenses, you can put an X if you feel uncomfortable with the sex you were born as. I read where some couples do not want to identify the sex of the child when it was born, and they want to identify that baby as an “It.”  When puberty happens, and the hormones come in, I think it might be a part of a problem.

Now, this is out of the way, it’s too much for me.

Let’s get down to brass tax.

I like to have the radio on when I’m falling asleep. Sometimes in the middle of the night I pick up on conversations that are of interest to me. One such matter concerned how the Chinese Government are not living up to the trade agreement and they are still ignoring and stealing our patents. This is not right and should be dealt with more swiftly. The United States produces great innovations and it’s a shame that they are stolen from us without more stringent consequences to the perpetrators. It’s been said that the Chinese Government completely ignores trade agreements brokered through many Presidential Administrations.

Now, North Korea may be acting up a bit. Let’s start getting tough again.

What’s going on or not going on with the wall. With the government shutdown, certain government employees are not getting paid although once the government gets back up and running again, they will get backpay. In the meantime, these employee’s bills keep piling up. Some of these employees who are not getting paid are TSA Workers who do airport security and I don’t know how this will affect their performance. The Democrats, Republicans, and the President need to come to some kind of agreement and not to advance your own political careers but what’s best for the American people who pay your salary.

These are important matters. Those who have filed their income tax early and are expecting refunds which normally come in February may not come until late March or early April due to the government shutdown. You know the reason why these people file early because many depend on that refund to cover their expenses from the November and December holidays.

Lastly, we want to finish up the importance of teaching children about saving for a rainy day and beyond which we wish we could turn back time and followed much earlier in life. Compound interest piles up and here’s the proof: if you want to make over $1,000,000 in a month: here’s what you do: Start with one cent and double the amount every day and see how long it will take to reach $1 million. You will be shocked. I know I was. C.M.