Progress and Pain

The Facebook Status that I want to post but cannot because it's true:

Siegfried has been tempted by the dark side because they promised her cookies. 

Yep....

I may take them up on that.  If I want to get things done, I've got to quit fighting the big boys and start playin' their game with my pendulum. 

Well....

today was interesting.  Eight of my websites got hacked (again) because I neglected to update the firewall.   My computer got infected when I took my sites offline and I was down most of the day. 

That gave me time to catch up on phone calls. 

I called the county told the welfare lady where to stick her indentured servitude; they promised to have someone call me in the next 24 hours...we'll see.

Allowing a man to sign his ex up for such a program without her consent really makes it hard to make a living; how in the hell can I earn $$ if I'm working for the government for free?

They gave my ex a heck of a lot of control.  I told them to remove our household from the program. 
I thought I was being a brat, then I learned he may have found a job, so may not qualify anyway. 


If he did get a job, then that means, we can  talk about finally selling this house and ending this hellish life.   He bought me lotion from Mexico and chocolate - I think that means he still wants the relationship.  My physical being needs a heck of a lot more that lotion and chocolate.....sorry, dude!

Well...getting back to the original topic, that phone call to the county, led to others.  Those calls led to some interesting intel. 

Okay, you know how I really want workplace protections extended to all government and quasi-governmental employees? 

Guess what??!! 

I found out why our local leaders won't do that!  They are replacing their workforce with unpaid welfare recipients who, in some cases, make as little as $1 worth of food stamps per hour of work!  The employer doesn't pay those wages...we do!!  We pay it through the county government. 

Ah..ha!! 

If they extend workplace protections to these entities, they'd have to pay everyone minimum wage!

Oh...and then they would lose the marketplace advantage they have when competing with private enterprise.  Ah, I'm a little "l" libertarian, I can play with that. 

Let's end welfare as we know it. 

Okay, the liberals won't do that but they'll end up agreeing to pay them minimum wage...watch me. 

First, the real Libertarians can rally about the problems of allowing government to get into the water business, the recreation business and any other type of things in which getting a $1 an hour workforce gives them an unfair advantage.  Then, we can get the unions to decry the lack of protections and get the Dems involved.   I'm not sure what I can do to get the conservatives involved, I'll give it some thought; maybe if I focus on how the welfare moms are taking jobs that well educated professionals do thus driving down wages for the professionals in the public arena that have to compete with former public employees for those jobs.  

Don't get me started on the fact that the county does not pay for daycare; think about it.  Since we became a workfare county, the number of children dying in informal child care networks (friends, family, or sitting in the crib alone while mommy does workfare) has drastically risen.  I think I see a connection!

It might be best to do away with the whole food stamp notion and get rid of regulations that make it hard for people like my friends and I to start food and clothing banks. 

I'm going to make some calls to DC tomorrow and see how to go about getting the county's funding cut!  They're in violation of federal law and I can prove it because they played with me!!! 

I'm a psych researcher.  I can easily put together another qualitative research website collecting stories of people screwed by the system. 

And the social worker said I was lazy because I didn't hold a job they approved of... apparently she neglected to Google my name.  

Ha!

For the first time in over a year, I couldn't go online to work so I did the only other thing I like to do. 

I cleaned. 

I used the only cleaner we had in the house. 

Bleach. 

I'm in severe pain. 

My hands are bleeding. 

My face is bleeding (from rubbing it with bleach covered hands). 

My nostrils are flaring. 

I think its time to either move to live with people are aren't piggies or get some time of anti-anxiety medication to tide me over until I move. 

This is too damn painful. 

Love ya,

S.