Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.

Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

Can you help us out with this? ... How come these people were hired and why aren't they fired?

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy -- if not less of it -- doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

We know it has affected us, because the chambers [of commerce] have received calls and heard the reason people aren't coming down is because of the water quality. But at the same time, business is good.