Monday, July 18, 2011

Duplicate and dupe the public, huh?

We all waste things which we all know that we shouldn’t and decent folks feel ashamed when they admit they did it but with recycling, composting and veggie gardens and hybrid vehicles and Energy Star products we are doing our share of trying to do better, right?
Then I ask why would the IRS be sending duplicates of the same paid for statement to a married couple living under the same roof, knowing by, what I would imagine pre-sort machines or some other techno marvel that we live together in the same home?
So I called and inquired, since as we all know I have an inquiring mind.
And the answer was that some married people living at the same address perhaps don’t speak to one another.
Hmm, it could be plausible.
You all remember that movie the ‘War of the Roses’, circa 1989, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and yes they split it all down the middle didn’t they, and I suppose their mail was their mail… divided evenly…
But really how often does that happen, I ask you?

Any-who, back to my point of wasteful spending we received two notices telling us that our monthly paying of $100 a month for five months that we started three months ago repaying their mistaken payment of $500 bucks back in 2009 to millions of us innocent needy peeps who being honest even questioned them and told them it must be their mistake but they said it was a correction in a filing mistake that we made, huh?
And it took them until this past November to realize that I was right!
The notice informed me and Hubby individually that they had received our May and June payment but no mention of the one that was done electronically, just like the other two from our bank to them on July 5th, and today is the 18th, how odd… and so I inquired if they received it and sure enough it was received on the sixth of July! And I just checked and the noticed is dated the 21st of July and so no they did not miss my payment they apparently just ignored it that is until I called and asked about it! But wait today it is the 18th the 21st hasn’t come yet, huh? Luckily, I am keeping track and so far they have three hundred dollars repaid and our bank is keeping track too.
This is our government in action, hmm…
Now if I receive another declaration of the last payment with Hubby in duplicate after I just called them and they do ask you your social security number and address and of course your name and I would think it was a taped call or recorded in some way shape or form diligently keeping track of us fine Americans and what we say and who we say it to!
Sounds like nitpicking to you, huh?
Well we know that paper is not cheap and that posting anything isn’t either by snail mail even for our government who has been known to overpay for many a small item, like a six hundred dollar hammer and the like…oh, now you remember and so I have proven my point.
So cost cutting should have started years ago, hmm.
One of my Facebook friends posted our elected government officials salaries and they are quite impressive but not as much as those CEO’s but we all know excessive monies dispersed in anyone’s salaries without any return on them getting the job done is more than ridiculous; it is OBSCENE!
Private industry didn’t bother us until it effected us with the bail out that us tax payers saw go to them…but the government’s elected officials have always been our employees and we should have called them in for a talk long ago on how they were actually hearing what we needed and wanted accomplished!
Getting exorbitant salaries without producing is a nasty business and in the private sector no boss would stand for it, they would all be fired.

Today I received an email from Congressman Thomas Rooney concerning my email to him about spending on the war effort and he felt that I should have contacted my local congressmen and gave me their names, which I did tell him that I have contacted those people with my advocacy and I did know who they were and that I did not recall sending anything to him, but I had to admit that I could have forgotten.
But I did use as an opening and wrote back to him and this is what I wrote:

Dear Mr. Rooney:

Sir, I do not recall sending you any message RE: the situation below, so sorry.
Not to say that I did not since with my MS my memory has been faltering.
But I am concerned with the injured veterans, since my brother was an injured vet who fought in the Korean War (yes, he would have been 80 next month, but passed away in 2004, spending most years on and off in VA hospitals and he was 19 years my senior, in case you were wondering) and our younger son was in the Navy during the most recent wars and served six years, he is a Nuclear Engineer at thirty-five, actually the last four a project manager for FPL. We are all concerned with the ones who come home and need continuing care and their families. Thankfully our son is not one of them who had been wounded. And I do know who my Representatives are, since I have contacted them on many matters about my own Multiple Sclerosis and arthritis with bills that have come up concerning them. But thank you for looking into any matters that concern our military ability to do their jobs safely.

But I did send a message to the president that may have been sent to you? It was all about my concerns over this budget that you all seem to be having difficulty taking care of and I listed some of my concerns about where the cuts might be made, perhaps you were sent that?
I also write a nightly blog that had many suggestions in it as well, but it was a bit irreverent for all of you who profess to work for your constituents, hmm?
Let me send you a link, although I doubt you will be happy with what I discerned from your meetings during these several weeks with all our fate in all of your hands...

http://tobi-adayinthelife.blogspot.com/2011/07/trickle-down-theory.html

Enough said… and if I disappear you all now know why…
KIDDING!

On that more than ridiculous thought and hopefully gutsy move on my part… or not…
Let me be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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