Just back from a few days in Northern California, where we visited an Aged P, my 91 year old father-in-law.
It's a whole different feeling fiscally from the "let the good times roll" of my native state. And, of course, we've not fallen so far from a state of extreme affluence.
In addition to the bitterness about bonuses for bankers, we heard a lot of bitterness about state workers. No wonder! A front page story in the local paper, which was presumably carried by many other papers, concerned overtime earnings. The story began with the example of a prison nurse, whose $102,000 salary was reduced by $10,000 to $92,000 after a furlough. Then she earned $177,000 in overtime, bringing her salary to well over $250,000. She said the furlough had made things hard.
I try so hard not to let stories like this get to me.
Here's the story
How about you?
P.S. Thanks for sticking by me and commenting, Dear Readers. Will respond as I have time.
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