Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Political Words

Trickle Down, Socialism, Small Government, Liberal, Conservative, Wasteful, Stimulate, Pork Barrel, Field Mouse, Its a Joke, Real World, Spending, Whiners.
Do any of these words in a sentence help employ our neighbors. I am retired and my wife is working at Walmart part time. My neighbor ( a lineman) works for the power company full time, his wife works part time for the country club, she lost her 40 hour a week jobs 6 years ago. My other neighbor works part time at the midnight shift at our local gas convenient store and she supports her husband that cannot work because of illness. This is typical of the environment I live in. No one around me is doing well.
Does politics as usual really going to help me or our neighbors get out of the holes their in? I am in the best position in our neighborhood.
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Do you want a job and save the federal government some money?
Somethings I did when I worked for the government as a lock and dam operator and now are contracted out to make our government smaller. I greased the gears and pivot points on the lock and dam, I painted my work area, I mowed the lawns, I picked up limbs on the bank, I cleaned my work area, I did plumbing and minor electrical work, I repaired the dam. I did all these things as part of my job. In the last 20 years all these jobs have been contracted out and now because of budget cuts cannot be paid for or done?! The lock and dam employees are still there and would be happy to do these jobs as part of their jobs. Obama said yesterday that he is going to let government employees do their jobs. Some people still remember what federal workers did as part of their jobs.
On my job details form my job description used to read at the very end of the normal job description .... other duties as assigned ( those words were taken out mentally in the last 20 years).
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My side still feels as if a knife wound is still mending (painful).

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