Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:27:38 -0400
From: ruby
Subject: response to Mark
Mark……..in your heart of hearts, you have the answer to your own wonderings. The ones who are struggling to keep it together these days wake up to see what else we are going to have to give up to “fix” the economic crisis of the state.
The ones in Raleigh with the power created this fiasco, but John Q. Public is going to be responsible to fix it. People are losing unemployment benefits and still no jobs to be found. It cuts to the core to see a grown man cry on television because he has a family to support, his benefits are gone and he has no job to replace the one where he was laid off.
The Sanford Herald said yesterday the next consideration for cuts is home health care and Hospice care. Add this group of people to the school personnel that is being cut…how many will that total?? In other words, if you can’t care for a loved one, it’s off to the nursing home so the federal government can print some more money to care for them. Lottery money- who knows? I have been in the public school system for over thirty years and have never heard of anything that was bought with lottery money. If it was dispersed to the different systems, it would probably be at the discretion of the Supts./Boards as to how it would be spent. The overall problem is that for so long, they have given away too much and now the State is playing “Indian Giver”! to those who can least afford it.
I wake up everyday and thank my God for another day and thanking Him for the blessings He has given me, but I’ve added more to it lately – God please grant some wisdom and guidance to those who are in control of our lives and finances.