Friday, December 7, 1984

This mornimg after I got off at Marie's, I gave myself a pedicure and polished my toenails and fingernails.

The woman, who interviewed me yesterday, called to tell me I got the job. I asked if it was tax free, and she informed me it was. Hooray! $54.00 every Saturday I work, clear. The unemployment office mailed me another form. Apparently I've been overpaid again, by $88.50, but I'm supposed to keep sending in my unemployment forms. Since I'm working for cash, how can I be overpaid? There's no rhyme nor reason, unless they are out of money. I would be out in the street by now, if I hadn't have had under-the-counter, unreported income.

I'm contempleting the recent newspaper headlines: 2,000 dead in India, due to a poison gas leakage in a heavily populated area, by an American company, Union Carbide. A lawsuit on behalf of the families for $15,000,000,000.00 has been filed and the chairman of the board has been arrested and charged with 7 counts of negligence. That's $7,500.00 per person. Can that possibly be right?

Another large company is leaving our area. It's closing one-half of one of their facilities and laying off more people at their other area plants and offices.

President Reagon is trying to cut more benefits in food stamps, energy assistance, winterization programs, medicare, medicaid, and other poverty programs. Our government's policy seems to be the same everwhere, let the unfortunate starve, lack medical treatment and freeze.