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OK here is the scoop, I took a part-time job.  It has been a month since I have worked and now they are making me  appeal my unemployment, they are making me fight for the morsels that they will throw at me….  Yep so I outwitted them, I took a part-time position at the local tobacco store, which makes me eligible for my partial unemployment>>>HAHA  I outsmarted them! 

It would  be 2-4 more weeks worth of worry if I did not take the job.  I have bills to pay just like everyone else, and I like to eat.   The job is a great one since I am a smoker, and I get to smoke inside the store.  No more going outside to smoke in the  100 degree heat, wind, rain,and the future  hail, and muck….I like that aspect of it.  I will be alright now, because I will get to see all my old buds from the chicken plant.  I had applied for the job a long time ago, at least 3 different times I put in applications.  I did not realize how many of  the displaced workers  come into the store almost daily.    They actually say to me ”at least you got a job”, and then we chat about how the Chicken Plant  LIED to everyone in the town, and the lies told and printed in the  newspaper. 

They told the paper that all their workers would get a severance package if they worked there longer than a year to start with, and the ones who were there over 10 years or more were supposed to get a good severance  package for their longevity.   “LIAR, LIAR PANTS ON FIRE”  They told that LIE  so that everyone would stay until the last day, so that all their employees wouldn’t walk out.  NO ONE GOT A SEVERANCE PACKAGE with the exception of the Bosses!  The CEO  and Upper level Administration.  Other than that it was a free fall into the world of the unemployed, uninsured, and under-medicated.

So starting my new job last Thursday was good for me, I needed to get out of the house anyway.  It is one of the easiest jobs I think I have ever had, and probably will ever have.  It was really busy Friday which I expected, but it was busy Saturday also.  I have concluded that it might be a sign of the recession we are not in, people are smoking a lot, and it is because they can’t afford to go anywhere.  Or maybe they are really trying to commit suicide in a way that they can smoke themselves to death and won’t have to be here for the recession we are not in. 

I know I am bent and twisted, but it seems that we cannot escape the fact that times are hard, and they are hard all over.  That is unless you are a suit and tie, or a CEO, or a Part of the upper eschelon of society.  If being there means I would have to give up my cigs…..forget it,  I won’t do it.  If being there means I would have to lie to the workers who are just getting by, I can’t do it.  If being part of the party means I have to leave one of my comrades behind because they have no control, I can’t do it.  I for one would stick to my fine feathered friends like the dander that I am made of.   I would have to have a solid offer of at least 1 million to even consider the lie.  What can I say I have morals, and ethics. 

There are a number of people who come in and talk about the way things are all over, and they are like you and me just shaking their heads and wondering where it all will end up.    And they also wonder what will happen to our town without the Plant, and talk about the politics of the upcoming election. 

I wonder what does the average joe the plumber have to do to get the people who are running things to stop.  I would like to see Joe the Plumber go off his rocker, running in the street screaming and waving his wrench in the air.  Oh that won’t work they will just think he is practicing for Halloween.  You know what I think I just figured out why the elections are held so close to Halloween>>>>>>It is so we won’t know they are just kidding, with all the campaign promises, and wishes.

But I think that the American People are just a little smarter than that, how much  smarter seems to be debatable.  I have faced it that nothing will be done and nothing will change, no matter who gets into the White House.  You all know I am right, they make all the projections, promises, and still the poor are stuck and the rich don’t know how many houses they own, or even if they have ever lived in the houses.  I think that is just plain STUPID!  UGH!  How can you not know that you own 7  houses most of which are ESTATES……Give me a break. 

Oh I guess if your wife handles everything then you wouldn’t know, because you suffer from Alzheimer’s anyway.  Or is that just selective memory??   Does Ronald  Regan ring a bell with anyone???  It does with me. Does anyone remember Star Wars, and Sky Lab, and ET and the fear of being attacked from outer-space?   I am more worried with being attacked by the folks in the inner-space we all share.   I have listened to all that come in  to the store.  They are worried, but all say they will be Voting.    I KNOW I AM VOTING, I am writing in  a candidate.  I am going to vote for  Wylie Coyote, or TAZ  I am undecided but I have no doubt in my mind that I am voting for one of them……I am so confused.  I don’t feel alone, the customers at the store are feeling it too.  They talk about all of it.  I think I like my new part-time job afterall, for now I will have to.  Have a good day all! 

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