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W-day again
Apr. 27th, 2011 09:57 pmY'know, I was born on a Wednesday, for all the good it did me.
Farrier was here this morning, vet late in the afternoon. Worked late shift as usual for Wednesday, boss called a meeting at 4:30 to tell us that due to a budget shortfall of 25K (decline in tax revenue due to the recession, increase in insurance costs) there will be no raises this year and staffing will continue to be paper thin. Not that the usual raises are that good. The last two years mine hasn't even covered the increases in state income tax and health care insurance. My check shrinks even when I get a raise.
The Fed once again demonstrates its incompetence and lack of vision, so the stock markets rise and so does inflation. Savings and CDs are earning rock bottom rates, but the wealthy Republicans want to take away retirement benefits and medicare as well. Then they'll tell us we aren't saving enough for retirement, since they've made it all but impossible to save anything anyway.
Obama talks Hawaii into handing over his full birth record, but of course the "Birthers" aren't satisfied and just consider it a fraud. Peabrain Trump demands that the President turn over his college transcripts as well. Is he willing to hand out copies of his own, I wonder?
Hummingbirds were still hanging around today, maybe they'll stick around and nest here.
Forecast: more rain, rain, and rain possible. There might be a moment of sunshine on Friday, if you don't blink and miss it.
Enough. I'm going to bed.
Farrier was here this morning, vet late in the afternoon. Worked late shift as usual for Wednesday, boss called a meeting at 4:30 to tell us that due to a budget shortfall of 25K (decline in tax revenue due to the recession, increase in insurance costs) there will be no raises this year and staffing will continue to be paper thin. Not that the usual raises are that good. The last two years mine hasn't even covered the increases in state income tax and health care insurance. My check shrinks even when I get a raise.
The Fed once again demonstrates its incompetence and lack of vision, so the stock markets rise and so does inflation. Savings and CDs are earning rock bottom rates, but the wealthy Republicans want to take away retirement benefits and medicare as well. Then they'll tell us we aren't saving enough for retirement, since they've made it all but impossible to save anything anyway.
Obama talks Hawaii into handing over his full birth record, but of course the "Birthers" aren't satisfied and just consider it a fraud. Peabrain Trump demands that the President turn over his college transcripts as well. Is he willing to hand out copies of his own, I wonder?
Hummingbirds were still hanging around today, maybe they'll stick around and nest here.
Forecast: more rain, rain, and rain possible. There might be a moment of sunshine on Friday, if you don't blink and miss it.
Enough. I'm going to bed.
