The Problems with Billionaires

 The outside temp was a cool 48 (F) when I woke up this morning.  I had the heat set at 69 (F) was not surprised to hear it turn on while I was cooking up my barley breakfast.  There are freeze warnings out for tonight, however, according to Accuweather, the lowest our temperature will get is 39 (F).  That's 7 degrees above freezing.  Maybe they're just being cautious.

And yesterday was one of those odd days.  Some things were done, like laundry, but not enough for me to say the day was a total success.  I did my Wednesday morning workout in, paid some bills.  Dinner was a beef stewy thing I threw together in the crock pot.  But looking back on it, I'm wondering where the hours went.

Today feels like it should be Saturday, but it's Thursday and I have to work this afternoon.  My new schedule was posted yesterday and it does appear as though I'm back to working 22 hours a week.  That's fine.

I did get some words written, but not as many as I'd have liked.  If it weren't for the shit show going on the country, I'd say I might have a mild case of writer's block.  Unfortunately, there is the shit show and like many Americans, I'm watching it anxiously.  

Anyway this popped up in my Facebook feed yesterday, my only ride in a helicopter.  I'm flying back to my ship.  I truly disliked it.  For those of you who have never ridden in a Navy helicopter, they are extremely loud, even with the sound proofing headphones.  To this day, hearing a helicopter simply grates me.

And one of the main reasons we have this shit show is billionaires.  Believe me, billionaires are only conservative because of the tax breaks they are addicted to, they are hooked on the heroin of lower percentage rates.  In their private lives they do whatever the hell they want, most of which is neither conservative nor Christian.  Because Democrats want to tax them, billionaires are backing Republicans. They do not understand that everything has a tipping point.  That is an idea that doesn't enter their thinking process... at all.  And the MAGA cultists?  They are soooo needy.  They also believe that billionaires are like fairy godmothers and fairy godfathers, that they'll wave the little billionaire magic wand and everything will be fine and dandy.  Cultists don't understand that billionaires view them as an expendable resource, or that billionaires will put them through Hell just so that they don't have to deal with pronouns they don't like.  Cultists will always be the ultimate victims, used and then thrown away once they no longer have any value.  Will the cultists ever reach their own tipping point?  I don't know, but the billionaires had better watch out if they ever do.

Death of Brexit

 Crap, yesterday was hot and stinky at work.  Temps were in the low 90s (F) bit humidity went through the roof.  The same is in store today.  And tomorrow.  The temps would be just fine if it weren't for the humidity. 

I skipped my walk at Adams-Ricci yesterday because it was a holiday, and for some reason I didn't really want to do anything.  Don't ask me why, perhaps it's because it was a holiday.  Perhaps it's because I knew I was going to have to work and even though I knew they were going to have food, I also knew it was going to be soooo boring.

What departments were busy?  Paint and garden.  I only had one customer ask me what was on sale, and I nicely gave him my standard response:  appliances.  I did snap a pic and send it to my brother.  You can see the arm of one customer going through self-checkout.  In spite of the lack of customers, I checked our sales figures before I left and we had more than made our plan for the day.  It's the rest of the week that's killing us.

And, of course, the Tories lost big time yesterday in the UK.  For those who don't know, the Tories are the conservative party, similar to our Republicans, who sold the British people Brexit.  The Tories said Brexit was going to be the best thing to ever happen to the country.  They lied.  The rich got richer and the average person got poorer.  I suspect that the Labor Party is going to begin making amends to the EU since the pro-Russia party is no longer in power.

Is American going to learn from the British?  I should think so.  Conservative policies always benefit the wealthy and the upper class, the average worker, the middle class citizen, will always have to work more hours and spend more money than he can afford to make his life easier.  Tax breaks for the rich will always fail because they don't spend the money the way those of us much farther down the ladder do.  They don't invest in America, they purchase luxury items that do nothing to grow the economy.  For one of us, spending a couple hundred dollars on a chair is an investment, a lot of money, but for the wealthy?  The furniture store comes to them, bringing designer fabrics the price of which would put 6 months of groceries on our tables.  For the betterment of mankind, we will reject Conservative policies.  If we do it often enough, maybe they'll move to Russia.