This morning we got up at our usual time…but unlike all the other days before this…this one is the last for this week. We had already amassed 32 hours as of yesterday so all we could work is 8 today. We have to add the drive time from the motel to the store and back and then the drive time from Mt Pleasant to our home base. This cut our available hours down considerably. We are really only suppose to work 32 hours a week but we have been pushed over this amount due to the amount of work that has been coming in.
Enough about this work thing. Bridget is on the phone now with Sherri. They closed the deal on their house and will be trying to close the end of March. We are so excited about their news. Sherri is trying to figure out how she can quit before our goal is met. She is so ready and that is why I went to work to help her get that goal so she can hit the road.
Tonight we have to figure out where we are going to eat once more. We are on the company ticket so we eat good. When you eat out every meal…it gets hard to decide where you want to eat. Eating out every meal…you think that could be the reason we can’t lose any weight. We really need to start walking again.
Well let me take a minute to comment on the meeting the President had with the Senators. What a laugh…can you believe those guys. Here we are with no break in the cost of Health Insurance and they are up there quibbling over every thing they can and why should they pass anything…they have their Health Care program. And here is another little tidbit of information that I would love to drop on you. Take a look at this Web Site
http://www.ssa.gov/immigration/ Now if this don’t fry your shorts nothing will. Don’t you just love the fact that you pay into a system your whole life for a retirement that some immigrant can come in and never pay a dime for and get the same thing. They don’t even have to speak English…we have interpreters to help them get this freebee. If we vote any of these buffoons back into office next time we deserve all we get from them.
Sorry for this rant…but I have to let you know what a fine hand we are being dealt. Maybe we can elect some folks to go to Washington that have our interest at heart…
Somewhere in Time
2 comments:
AMEN, BROTHER SPEEDY! How did we ever make our representatives eliteist rulers over us? They have outrageous salaries, total healthcare for life and instantaneous full retirement benefits no matter how long they serve!! It is time for Americans to wake up and get back to our roots!!
oh and ps: have a good day :)
Hey, Speedy, I am an immigrant.
I worked on a US Air Force Base in England before immigrating here in 1963. I came to see the land where my mother was born. I had dual citizenship until I was 25, but didn't know it.
Immigrants can only get out of the system what they pay into it. They can't get any benefits right away. But they have to have a SS number, just like anyone else.
By the way, it is not easy to get an immigrant's visa anymore, they have tightened up on the rules since I came here. Also it takes a long time, it took me 6 months, and I already been cleared by the FBI, as I worked on the flight line. The Immigration Office does a lot of back ground checking before they will issue an immigration visa.
Didn't some of your ancestors immigrate here?
Now, the wetbacks, that is a different kettle of fish. I don't think they should be able to get a thing, and I don't think that they can, if they are illegals. Except deportation!
Oh, don't get me started on politicians. "What this country needs are more unemployed politicians" Edward Langly. And hopefully, their perks would cease too.
I know you two can't wait to get on the road with no schedules, but it will happen. Remember how long it seemed before you could retire, well it happened too.
Happy Trails, Penny, TX
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