To Rhode Island - and anywhere else this applies

Well the state employees are crying because 1000 of them are being kicked to the curb since all would not kick in the equivalent of a 4.5% salary cut to save them. Did you think that pennies from heaven would shower in at the last minute? If so, you must be breathing second hand medical marijuana smoke. I took a 5% pay hit and an additional 10% for a month this spring and still got furloughed, but it kept my job for a few more months. Am I crying? NO – I’m looking for another job and I’m not going to give up until I find one.

Everyone feels like a victim of these times, but none more so than those families who are evicted from their homes by foreclosure (I’m talking job loss, not necessarily predatory lending). What irony to live in a shelter and see the home you had to leave sitting on the market, empty and open to squatters and vandals.

And yet we look to the government for answers…uh folks, we elected them. They are only as good as the consideration we gave in our vote. Have you ever been to your local congressman/ senator offices just to get information on the issues, or present one of your own? Are you greeted by an interactive office staff member, or, as I was, greeted by a well dressed and nicely coiffed young woman who seemed unable to say anything other than “Thank you, we will send this to Washington….”