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Edited on Sun Jul-19-09 11:04 AM by ThomWV
I fellow I met last year just got a tax refund from the State of California in the form of an IOU. I understand they won't take them at banks in California, you know its worthless paper here in West Virginia. I met the fellow when he and his wife moved into his sisters house. His sister is a good friend of my wife. Their whole family is from the bay area. Its really a shame but they haven't got a dime. The guy and his lady are only here because they got stuck here while traveling the country looking for work; when the money was completely gone the sister was the closest landing place. Now the sister, who is my wife's friend, is holding down the fort and doing side jobs catering and waitressing while her husband is working somewhere in Ohio and sending the money back home. None of them has an extra dime between them. Back to the fellow. He's none too bright and mentally drifts off into la-la land now and then, not a dime of insurance to have a doctor take a look at him. They've been here nearly a year and I believe he's working odd jobs a bit so they were really hoping to find a place to live other than in the spare room of a double wide; and the god damned state of California sends them an IOU. This is the honest to god's truth; they would have been better off if the state had sent them a big bowl of steaming shit instead. At least the shit could have been used to fertilize the garden.
What the hell has this country come to?
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