Roy Witt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RW> 13 Jun 03 12:06, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> I prefer grass to concrete...

 RJT> How radical.

 TS>> Kinda like the San Franciscans and the People's Republic, now that I
 TS>> think of it.

 RW>> We're trying to give SF to the Canadians and we're ousting the
 RW>> People's governor soon...

 RJT> Are ya?  Good news,  that...

 RW> At this late date, the recall movement has announced that they have
 RW> enough signatures to put the recall measure on the ballot.  Too bad
 RW> it doesn't include the Democratic side of the legislature as well.
 RW> They're insisting that higher taxes is the only way to balance the
 RW> budget and get the state out of it's 38 billion dollar deficit.

Does it never occur to these people that one other way to deal with it is
to spend less?  I never see any of them mention that possibility,  not
ever...

 RW> The only spending cuts they've come up with, affect the tax payer.
 RW> Nothing about cutting spending in places like perks for 
 RW> legislaturers. 

Of course not.  The bunch we have here in Harrisburg has voted themselves
raises,  making it a point to do stuff in the middle of the night,  and to
make them automatic so that they specifically have to vote against it
happening to keep it from going through.  The latest bit is a fifty percent
hike in their retirement benefits...

Our governor,  having been a DA and then mayor of Philly,  is making more
in retirement pay from that stuff than I make while working!  But I get to
contribute to it.  Grr...

 RW> In January, the employer's unemployment taxes go up 51% to fill 
 RW> the caufers, which are going to have a much bigger demand because 
 RW> of the state jobs going down the drain. California should file 
 RW> bancruptcy, but that'll never happen.

Nope,  that'd be too like the politicians admitting that they screwed up.

And I have a new wrinkle to contend with while collecting unemployment, 
which I've been at a whole couple of weeks already.  I apparently fit some
sort of a "profile" that suggests that I'll go the whole way
through all of my benefits before getting employed again.  (And if I should
choose to do so,  what of it? It's my choice,  right?)  But I had to go in
there today,  and have to go back again next week,  and when I asked today
what the deal was with all this stuff I found that it has to do with the
feds getting involved in it,  since they've gone and extended things
they're apparently putting some more conditions on getting that money...

Nothing like getting the feds involved in a state matter to make it much
more fun!  :-S

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