I chatted with an old friend the other day about the budget problems within his home state.
We were stationed together forty years ago in the military and still keep in touch.
When we talked he was joking about the situation i.e. lawmakers leaving the state, no compromise from the Governor, school closed.
My friend was worked into the family business as vice president after his service time and now is the president of his Corporation. While growing up he had all the benefits of, if not wealthy, a well connected upper middle class family.
He supports the newly elected government in his state.
The one problem that crops up from time to time, still, is his total disregard for opinions that differ from his. Because we were his friends we would laugh off his pronouncements in the old days.
Now, the union members, even the teachers, protesting his state budget are "thugs".
Minority politicians are now Damn Dems.
"We have taken 50% of our population off the Fed income tax system, thus they don’t have a clue of taxation economics." He told me, "I wanted to ask if it were just Union workers, teachers and Damn Dems (those gravy trainers) that got off from paying fed taxes."...If so I wanted in on it. I have been a union member, a teacher and a Damn Dem at one time or other but I still pay taxes.
"Teachers make a good living," he insisted.
After working out the figures a starting teacher, now, makes and my friend and I in 1970 made about the same in monies.
Of course we got free health care.
Be well
A journeyman citizen
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