This week is nearly over and I'm so glad. It had just been horrible. I'm exhausted. I don't even know what day it is! Someone leaving the office said, "Have a nice holiday weekend!"
I looked at them like they were crazy and said, "What holiday?" Then was so relived when someone said Labor Day. Three day weekend!
I have about four or five hearings tomorrow afternoon. I hate this part of the job. I've had to drop people from the program because reporting violations that resulted in over payments. Understand I have no problem with the person has deliberately committed fraud, like the woman who made $700 a week and we paid all her rent for months because she didn't report her income. She owes the government $3700. I hope she gets fired. Someone else needed that help.
However, there are some folks who just make a mistake and forget. We can tell the difference. And we usually work with them. Not this time. You see, our moronic leaders have graciously sent money to Egypt and Syria and Palestine while cutting the budgets of every American housing program in the country. Meaning Americans are going to be homeless in favor of terrorist controlled countries.
The end result of all that is that we are terminating as many from the housing program as we can in as short a time as possible. I sent out 15 withdrawal letters telling those people I was taking away their assistance as of 08/31. Sunday for you voters. Three of those people have small children and I knew they simply forgot. They made a mistake, their first one. One of them is severely ADD and can't even fill out her paperwork without help. She sobbed and begged to be allowed to remain on the program. We are in a short fall (NO MONEY). There is no grace period. Nothing that will allow me to put her on probation and set up repayment arrangements. Her debt? $92. I asked twice if I could make an exception in a couple of cases. The answer was no. If we paid too much rent, they had to go.
We are sending billions to a bunch of people who will cut off our heads.
I am so happy to say I did not vote for that bunch of Washington clowns. And the idiocy of a voting populace who can't recognize what is happening is just beyond my tolerance. Do not even go there with me. I'm not interested in your justification of the raping of this country. I can only pray that the coming election will fix something. I believe it is too late. We've sold our souls ad I won't be surprised if in less than three years this country will be under a socialist or communist rule with most of our rights suspended. Come back and tell me I'm wrong in 2016. I'll print a retraction. I doubt you'll be able to because government attempts to control the press and internet is already underway. Just watch the biased and repressive media reports. Socialist takeovers always begin with limiting press and suppression of diverse political discourse.
Study the Nazi take over of Germany, beginning with Hitler's bid for election. Learn from it. Get acquainted with it. You'll know it when you see it... unless you're stupid.
On top of that, I can't walk for a few days. My shins are not good, nor are my feet.
My RA Doctor wants me to take Metheltrixate on top of the Plaquanil! She took xrays of my hands and I have erosions in my the joints of my hands. Still, no. The side effects of these medicines are already causing hearing loss, potentially can blind me, and reduced my immune system so I get sick more often. I have mouth sores from lowered immunity and have to use salt water to rinse my mouth twice a day to keep them in check. Metheltrixate causes hair loss and I don't even know what else. I don't suppose joint deformity is any worse than all these combined. If I can keep the pain in check I'll deal with it.
And that is what the week has done to my attitude and mood. I'm headed for bed before I say something I'm regret tomorrow.
"Repressive." I had not thought of that word, but it is correct for this situation. No opportunity for error, no speaking out, no tolerance is what our government has become. There is a rift in our nation greater than I've seen since the '70s. There were huge crowds protesting our entry into Iraq, and no one protesting our entry into Syria - which will have enormous consequences. Biden and Kerry are speaking as if it were a done deal - surrogates who test the waters of wrath - while the president cannot make a decision. Yet - the media destroys the career of a clown for wearing the "wrong" mask and Americans are evicted for a minor error. Frustrating.
ReplyDeleteLuckily, I don't have to do informal hearings. Someone else handles them and I think she is waaayyyy to easy. As of right now, we are still offering re-payment agreements especially if we can show it wasn't intentional fraud. Good luck tomorrow. I'm taking the day off.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how you cope making those decisions, I don't think I could bring myself to tell those poor people they would Be on the streets. I think if it were me in that position I would be looking for another job by now. You have my sympathy
ReplyDeleteThere are times when I have no problem with it. There are 2000 people on our waiting list. When someone is committing fraud, they are preventing us from helping someone who may actually need it. I do not feel sorry for those people. The woman who was making $700 a week should be in jail. If I could put her there I would.
ReplyDeleteBut there are those who I'd be willing to give a second chance. Unfortunately, half of those will do it again.