The economic situation here in California is pretty bad, the unemployment rate is the highest it has ever been since 1941 and to top it all off we have idiots running the place.

Taxes on sales and income have already been raised because lets face it, we the people have to pay for idiot’s mistakes, I am sure that I don’t have to tell you who those idiots are.

A couple of days ago we, employees, found out that there is a plan, has not been approved yet, to cut pay by 4% and some other nice stuff such as unpaid holidays and furlough days. Hey, you reap what you sow that book says, so get comfortable and start reaping California.

I avoid discussing politics on my blogs and have mentioned it a couple of times just in passing. I do however have to comment on the current California budget crisis because I live here and it will affect me. How could we the people have allowed such idiots to run the state into the ground?, It is those idiots up in Sacramento that are at fault, 90% at fault I would say, and it shows to the tune of a $21+ billion dollar deficit. Why are they 90% at fault?, because they are supposed to “know Better” and because they abused the power given to them. They care more about politics than they do about doing what is right for the people and that is wrong, wrong wrong!!. Shame on us!! for allowing stupid politicians to do what they have done, shame on us!! for putting politics ahead of common sense and now we will have to pay for our own stupidity with our pocketbooks. I am hoping that we will learn something from the current crisis but I am sad to say that I truly doubt it.

I am a saver, I try to save as much as I can from every paycheck I get. I have two envelopes, one is named 10% and the other is named NBE or National Bank of Edwin, please no comments about the name. NBE I use mostly for birthdays and Christmases and the 10% one I’d rather not talk about it today but maybe someday I will tell you the story. Well, I have decided to combine the two together into one single envelope and I will use the NBE name because lets face it, that is a way cooler name than 10%. I will continue to use the money for the same reasons that I stated above, the only difference now is that the envelope will be a bit fatter and last I checked there was over $1000 dollars in each envelope so the NBE will be fat indeed. That money is not working at all for me so I am thinking of putting it in the bank so it will make me something after all when a birthday or Christmas comes I can always make a withdrawal, I surprise myself sometimes.

I have three paychecks coming my way this month and I am ecstatic because that one extra check couldn’t have come at a better time. I usually get three checks twice a year when all the planets are in a certain alignment and that is happening this very month. I am probably going to end up saving most of that extra check which is good. I am also going to deposit some of it into my checking account to help pay my debt and that is also a good idea. Now if I could only win the lottery, I don’t want much, 4 million will do it for me and not a penny more.

It was meant to happen, I am so tired of blogging that as soon as a certain party offered me $400,000 dollars for my blogs I jumped at the chance. This person must really be gullible because he doesn’t seem to know what he is getting into but that is quite all right because I am out of here. Today is my last day posting, I already deposited my check and I am going to put a big down payment on a house, buy me a nice expensive car and go away on a much deserved vacation starting this very day, April 1st 2009.