All posts by George Walters

George Walters is a Canadian columnist and author with more than forty years of writing experience. For over twenty years he has written a weekly column for Postmedia Network — Canada's largest newspaper chain — never missing a single week, publishing fifty-two stories a year. Combined with his work in Reader's Digest Community Voices, World News, Country Living, The Country Register, and farm and rural lifestyle magazines across Canada, he has published well over two thousand stories drawn from everyday life. He writes about farm work, fishing, old trucks, and the kind of people you only find in small towns — but just as likely he'll hand a voice to a weathered telephone pole, or turn his eye on something happening in the world today and tell you exactly what he thinks about it. No subject is off limits. If there's a story in it, George will find it. He has been called a philosopher of everyday life, a description that came up more than once during his television appearances over the years — and it's not hard to see why. His writing has a way of making the ordinary feel worth sitting with. He is the author of eleven books, including yearly short story collections and the Clay Moretti Files mystery series. Clay is a fifty-year-old private investigator who drives a 1967 Ford Galaxie, smokes cigars, and operates by a code the modern world gave up on a long time ago. The cases are present day. The man handling them is not. All titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon. Together, George and his wife Ruth have also created Elmer Finds His Way, the first in what he hopes will be a long series of children's books. Ruth did all the illustrations, as she has for every one of George's books — and beyond that she designed and painted the covers as well. Her work is woven into every page of everything he has published. A few words from readers: "I pulled up a kitchen chair and read your story three times." "You have a way of making a person homesick for a place they haven't been to." "Thank you for writing things that make old people and kids feel the same way at the same time." All my titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon.ca here.

Low In-Come Families Hmmm

Take A look at this article: The Ontario child benefit available to low-income families will nearly double to $1,100 a year beginning in July, Premier Dalton McGuinty  Dalton Gang, said yesterday. Now my views on this. Why? Well they feel free to tell their side of things so……….I figure I am entitled to my side of things.  Here’s what I think.

Now don’t think I am being insensitive, as I am not.  There is families out there having a hard time.  I do feel though, that a line has to be drawn somewhere.  I honestly feel that families wanting children should sit down and see if they can really afford to have them or not.  My wife and I years ago, did just that. We figured it out that if we couldn’t raise our children with out the help of government, than we shouldn’t be having them.  End results, we had two fine boys and never asked for a nickle, even in hard times. They never went hungry and always had a loving home to live in.  Sure, there are young ones out there that comes from broken homes that need our help, I am not denying that, and yes we should help them. Just that what this government is doing now, is for one thing only, and that is to get votes come next election.  They have to look somewhere, as one doesn’t have to be a lawyer to see what they have done so far, and folks are slowly I think getting the message.

On one other topic here.  The part where it says they are going to build more homes for low income folks, putting thousands of folks back to work.  OK. Now think about that for a moment.  Now here is what I think. Any job that is created by government isn’t good for this country. Why? Simple as any government person getting paid is being paid by us tax payers.  We basically are just paying ourselves.  If all we had was government officials in this country which is almost all we do have, we would soon be a destroyed country. The way one should look at it is, it’s like paying off one credit card with another. It works once or twice, but after that you are in for major hard times.  Simple as that.  We don’t need more government jobs, we need more folks starting business’s here in Canada and I mean Canada, then hiring Canadians, should say Canadians only.  Then money will be created and brought to being the right way instead of through goverments.  Simple as that. Until then we will never go ahead. But, this is what big governments want from you today. They want you to be under their thumb. They want you to be dependant on them. This is not the way to go.  The way to go is to look after yourselves and your families.  Get more self efficient, and get out of debt.  You don’t need all these things that they are throwing at you and more so they shouldn’t be doing it with hard earned tax dollars. I could tell you what I really think of taxes, but won’t, not here in this article anyways.

For me I look forward to getting out of bed each morning knowing that I went through life, not asking for one red cent from anyone, not that they would have given me anything back when anyways. Raising our family on our own, (meaning my wife and I) and building our dream which we have now without any big banking institution or government official, has made my wife and I what we are today.  My Opinion Only.

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What One Needs For A Good Salad

I like to get my salad off to a good healthy start by making a bed of leafy dark green vegetables. Lettuce is the traditional favorite, but stay away from the iceberg variety. Its lighter color gives it away as it is low on nutritional value. Choose instead from romaine, green leaf lettuce, and spinach. Better yet, mix in some of each. Baby green spinach is a real good choice too.

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Raw Broccoli The Way To Go

Levels of the beneficial, cancer-fighting compound sulforaphane in broccoli are reduced by 90 percent when the vegetable is cooked, so I would think it would be a good idea for folks to get to eatin’ raw broccoli mixed in with their salad.  At the very least once a week.  Thing is you will have to either buy organic or grow your own.  Just one more reason to get  out there this spring and get to planting your own garden. I should say boiled broccoli is better than nothing, just don’t over cook it. Also best to eat it with tomatoes as the combination fights off cancer. My Opinion Only

Also remember my new Gardening book which will be out March 22/2009 great book for sure. Loaded with all kinds of gardening tips, recipies and help in getting that new garden of yours into being.

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Friday Humor For Your Coffee

Parrot at Auction

One day David went to an auction. While he was there,
 he bid for a parrot.
 David really wanted this bird, so he got caught up
 and thoroughly involved in the bidding.
 He kept on bidding, but kept getting outbid,
 so he bid higher and higher and higher. 

Finally, after he had bid much more than he had intended,
 David won the bid; the parrot was his at last.

As he was paying for the parrot, he said to the auctioneer,
 "I hope this parrot can talk. I would hate to have
 paid this much for it,
 only to find out that he can't talk!" 

"Don't worry." said the auctioneer, "He can talk.
 Who do you think kept bidding against you?"

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Canadian Flags, Made In China…

You know this article about where our flags are being made is just a tip of the ice- burg.  I am glad however that it has been brought out into the open, only thing is will the Dalton Gang get to doing something about it. Not likely.  It will soon be forgotten’ as everything else.  Their little trick is, that when something like this comes along that is going against them,the powers that be, they just start other rumors and folks minds are swayed onto other things.  I can’t see why folks let it happ,en but they do.  Take A Look.  My Opinion Only

http://www.thestar.com/article/605358

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