Avoiding Mental Illness

This is not an advice column for all my true blue democratic friends who are fretting over the January 20, 2017 inauguration of Donald John Trump* ( a registered trademark) as the 45th President of the United States of America. Think of Avoiding Mental Illness as a true self help guide.

I write from experience and I will share some of my own life stories along the way to help illustrate my experience level so that you too will realize at the end of this journey why I am called Dr. Franklin by my peers. Today begins the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere as I write to you from high atop my remote mountain top farm in the northern hemisphere on this first day of winter. I want you to think about that thought today and reflect upon what that means.

It's summer in Australia and winter if you live here in the United States of America or Canada. I just finished reading a book called The14th Colony and returned my book to the Doddridge County Library, in West Union, West Virginia. What I remember from my World History classes at Dundalk High School in Dundalk, Maryland is that Australia was colonized by the English with their prisoner population in the United Kingdom. Think about that for a moment, reflect on that thought today as you go about your work. Are you a prisoner to your job just to keep a warm roof over your head. Or are you what I like to call A Lucky Sperm.

Donald J. Trump is A Lucky Sperm he inherited his seed money from his father and you don't need me to tell you anything more about that subject. Donald and I do share one very unusual factual record that very few people can boast. Both Donald and I have been declared bankrupt 4 times by a U. S. Federal Judge. However I believe I can confidently say with some certainty that I succeed him by not having any debt at all zero, zilch, nadda and every piece of real estate that I own is completely paid for with no mortgages, lines of credit or liens and furthermore the entire amount of any monies I have been owed by the U.S. government I have returned to the Bureau of Public Debt to reduce our nation's deficit.

Okay maybe you enjoy the cold weather the freezing ice on the roads and paying your higher than normal heating expense and you are dreaming of warmer days in your retirement years instead. When I moved to West Virginia from my penthouse condo in Waikiki, Hawaii I had realized that I too would once again become a suffering soul in the wilderness far away from the swamps.

But do not fear my friend I promised you that Avoiding Mental Illness was going to be a journey and a guide for helping you and I will make good on my promise when we meet again, you have some homework I want you to take out a sheet or folio of paper and discuss the pros and cons of living in a freezing climate during winter while on the southern hemisphere it is summer and there are no heating bills.

Your Friend
David

US Postmaster General

The greatest benefit of being the United States Postmaster General is meeting the citizens that make this country of ours great; not at some partisan political event but meeting them right in their own community where they live and fellowship with their friends families and neighbors. Where they exchange smiles face to face with the folks they do their merchandising with on the streets and sidewalks where they meet and great each other with a smile, a handshake, an embrace.
THOMAS DAVID FRANKLIN in Salem West Virginia Sunday October 9th 2016.

I am fortunate that an industrious life early on in my youth has afforded me the privileges that accompany such an accumulation of wealth however when I was faced with the consequences of having to pay the United States Government an additional unfair amount of taxes on my newly earned wealth so late in the calendar year I did something about it unlike anything ever heard of among Millionaires and Billionaires.

I gave away my entire fortune rather than have the government squander it away in taxes.
T. David Franklin in Portland, Maine.

This account of my life has been well documented in the past and chronicled in the newspapers and media from our country and around the globe in the days long before mobile cell phone use and internet access had become an essential tool to everyday life. Before there was Google, YouTube and Facebook we had Cable TV and thought that was great until Netflix arrived on the scene. Today's youth don't recall what is was like to use a printed Readers Guide Index to the printed news.
See Readers Guide Index: Millionaires and Billionaires.


When I am asked: "Of all the United States Post Offices in the USA which one do I like the best the best?" I tell folks "I like my hometown Post Office the best".

So what is your hometown Post Office Mr. Franklin?