Let's Talk Politics

That really &%$s with his base.

Told ya

I have had outdoor grass snapper, middle of the woods muff, hood of the car cherry, dining room table box, kitchen counter cooch, hot tub hot box, bathroom panty hamster, boat booty, beach beef curtain, shower kitty, tree house tunnel, motel quim, love seat cherry, ocean minge, lake tail, rug mitt, carpet cooter, suite sweets, truck bed batch, Harley hair pie, blanket bootie, swimming pool snipers, Boathouse mossy cleft, barnyard bearded clam, church rat, and penthouse pu$$y; so before you start telling me to go get laid, just understand I might be tired.

My wife works at a botanical garden that is going to be very slow in reopening. She works about 12 hours per week now and her enhanced unemployment benefits are cut by the amount she earns. I'm not really sure how that is a disincentive to return to work when you have to return to work if the job is offered.

That said, we can't keep paying everyone to stay home even though that's what we need. Mary and I are debt-free though but badly need to save for retirement.  I've got most of my money tied up in my business and that's going to be really complicated when it comes to retirement so we are saving everything right now. I'd hate to have to stop that.

We really blew our first and maybe only opportunity to spend our way out of this. With a real shutdown, we might have been ok in two or three months.  With the half-assed shutdown that we were able to lead ourselves through, we have gotten half-assed results.

But can we afford a do-over?

So a group of employees at a certain SW store all 'felt' symptoms of covid because the store manager had been around someone who tested positive. So they all got to go home for 10 days waiting for test results. They were all negative because they were never really symptomatic in the first instance. It is a pattern of abuse we are starting to see. The law requires paid quarantine until test results come back. Insurance pays it but the company has to send in people like me to help the store until they get back.

I am a team player so I go and do my best to keep things rolling, thankful to have not missed a day of work during this whole pandemic. They are mostly back now but today I had to go back to that store to meet one of my customers buying a piece of equipment. They also wanted some paint so I went to the back and rolled a 5-gallon pail up to the front, asked one of the employees that just got back from a 10-day paid vacation to please shake it up for the customer. This requires about 10 seconds of effort to put the pail in the shaker and push the 'on' button. She said, I can't I'm doing this. And pointed to another shaker that was mixing paint. She stood in front of the thing doing nothing. I was a bit piqued but said nothing. I just did your work for 10 days and you can't do a 10-second task for me? For reals?

And this is why I hate people.

The wife found a job though its not one she really wants but could turn into a decent one as its with a massive insurance company, but better than nothing.

I am trying to get her to get an adjusters license since she is in with the company now.