December 4, 2017

Holidays Are Depressing For Me

Written By:  Andrew Eide

I will be honest with you. Holidays, especially Christmas, is depressing for me. Christmas is the worst as I can make it through the other holidays without much stress and depression.

So, your question for me is, why is Christmas depressing for you. Here are my responses.

I grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s where you couldn’t purchase a Christmas Tree until the 2nd week of December. You never heard Christmas music until at least the 1st week of December. Today you see Christmas items in stores in July. You hear Christmas music playing in October. And when we were kids the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was the big event of the year before Christmas arrives the next month. But today the big event in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade is the very last float which presents Santa and Christmas.

Then you have the commercialism. Gift-giving for Christmas has a tradition of being simple and worthy and items a person could use. Today you have spoiled people, especially kids, who get upset if you don’t purchase them the most expensive items on the market as gifts. Yeah it depresses me to no end to spend $50 on an item for a family member only to have them disrespect the gift and complain why I didn’t purchase them the $100 version of the item. You know what? You don’t want to appreciate my effort, and the money I spent, to present you with gifts then next Christmas don’t expect any gifts from me!

I will make it through the Christmas Holiday season for 2017 but I will be sad and depressed. Nothing that several cups of coffee and lots of chocolate can’t handle.



December 3, 2017

End Of The Year 2017

Written By:  Andrew Eide

I would like to give a brief run-down of 2017 and let you know my feelings and opinions.

I feel 2017 has been a good year. The reasons are simple yet they are things that have not happened in our country for nearly a decade. The short list is:

ECONIMY – Our economy is doing well. The number of private sector jobs has increased while Government sector jobs have decreased. Many companies that were planning on moving jobs to other countries were enticed by President Trump to keep many of those jobs here.

SECURITY – The security of the United States and our Citizens is the primary concern to me. Since President Trump cracked down hard on illegal immigration and people who are terrorists coming here under the claim they are refugees from a war-torn country has provided a more secure environment for our citizens. While we see terrorist attacks ramp up in England, France, Germany, and many other countries, you see terrorist attacks at an all-time low in the United States especially compared to the number of attacks that happened under President Obama.

INVESTIGATION ON SO-CALLED RUSSIAN COLLUSION – We have had a year-long investigation conducted by a group of Liberals who want to find collusion between members of President Trump’s campaign and Administration with Russia to change the outcome of the November 2016 Presidential election. In that year-long investigation there hasn’t been one allegation that has proven to be true. Robert Mueller and Democrats have wasted out time and our money on a witch hunt and they haven’t yet found any witches. There is no collusion, and there never was any collusion, it was a hoax perpetrated by Democrats to try to invalidate a legal and valid Presidential Election.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS & NON-ACCOMPLISHMENTS – Since 93 percent of the news is negative against President Trump for the sole reason that the majority of the news agencies are Liberals and they run “fake” news we are not hearing about all the great things President Trump and Congress have done for the United States and our Citizens. Even with some Democrats demanding Impeachment, but without one valid reason to do so, and with ten good things being accomplished by the Trump Administration to every individual not-so-good thing being accomplishes, President Trump has overcome the 93 percent Liberal-biased negative reporting on his Presidency and he still maintains an approval rating of around 50 percent. Compare that to Obama who had about 95 percent favorable news presented by the Liberal-biased news agencies and yet he was at around 50 percent. If President Trump can be at 50 percent approval rating with 93 percent of news from Liberal-biased news agencies being presented, but Obama was only able to reach 50 percent approval rating when 95 percent of the Liberal-biased news was favorable then that tells you something. It tells you if all the negative items on Obama were also presented he probably would have been at 35 percent or less approval rating. If the positive items were also presented about President Trump along with the negative Liberal-biased stuff he probably would be around 65 percent approval rating.

For me the United States is on the right path. They are regaining the world-wide superiority we lost under Obama. We are regaining our economic superiority. We are again a world organizing power broker. We no longer coddle and protect Islamic terrorist groups such as ISIS and Muslim Brotherhood. President Trump is, as he promised, making America great again.