Mornin' WA. THE Dow going down? Figures. I think I'm going to go to bed & pretend today isn't here yet....
I haven't slept except for a 2 hour interrupted nap yesterday, since...day before yesterday. I stayed up writing that "article" for the newsletter, only to have it sent BACK to me with a note to "rewrite, minus the toll on our brothers these past 2 years. Stop interjecting these personal details on the crew and just do something simple." In other words, my article on the ROTTEN (to non-existent!) healthcare the guys that have gotten sick have received, (guys that were there on day 1 and refused to leave, despite the risks-they were exposed to a LOT of nasty toxins that day-AND for days afterward, WITHOUT the protection most civilized countries give their rescue workers in even LESS toxic scenarios!), was torn apart because I mentioned and I *thought* memorialized, the *8* guys who've died since my last article in 2012!! This is ONE, SMALL firehouse, and we'd already lost 4 guys before 2012!!! Thing is? They don't want the media sniffing around and causing "problems". One firehouse in Nassau County lost out on several grants for desperately needed equipment after one of their medics spoke out and talked to NewsDay-and then interrupted one of Bloomie's Pressers. She ended up losing her job, and her house lost funding. "Don't Mess with Mother Government"!!
I shouldn't be airing this here-or anywhere else, for that matter.
It's not like it's some "State Secret" or something. Everyone KNOWS what's going on: and sorry, but there's NO EXCUSE for how they've treated these guys who knowingly risked their lived for others-and their poor families. Heck, some in Guiliani's office have ADMITTED years ago that kicking FEMA & OSHA out and replacing them with frigging billionaire investors was a deadly screw-up. It just makes absolutely ZERO sense to me WHY they keep denying care or delaying it until it's too late for these guys who get little to NO healthcare benefits anymore. That "little" fund Obama brags about passing wasn't enough to even help HALF of the rescuers and their families that NEED it!! AND, at least in our house; half of them were and ARE Volunteers!!
Ok ok, I'm done with THAT. THEN, after I email him the "new improved" copy, I go to pay my monthly internet bill and find a notice that they're cutting back our "allowed usage", (uhmm, I checked my bill, my plan never had a "limit"-but the witch on the phone insists its "ALWAYS" been there??!!), cutting our speed, ("just a little, you won't even notice it!!"), AND, of course, raising their prices, (again, "just a smidgen!!"). WTF??!!
UGGHHH!! AND I got my garbage bill last night-ALSO UP $15!! I wouldn't mind..I live VERY simply...I don't need much-JUST the very basics...but stretching less than $700 for rent, utilities, landline, Internet, garbage, food...I gotta try & make 2 + 2= 5 this month...
But FIRST: SLEEP!!!! Maybe Leela will pull my phone plug out....
BBL!!
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"Of all God's creatures there is only one who cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but would deteriorate the cat."
-Mark Twain
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom
-Thomas Jefferson
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
-Gandhi