WHERE'S MY $2,000???

It's 6:27 a.m . 66 degrees out and foggy. Patrick's outside.

I've been fighting a fairly severe sinus infection for the last three days. First I've had in over three years. And I want to know when by $2,000 debit card is going to arrive in the mail from the Federal Government. Now, I'm all for giving the Katrina refugees food, water, shelter, clothing, help in relocating, help finding jobs etc. But a $2,000 debit card? What's that all about? I've been unemployed. I've been homeless. I've had my mortgage foreclosed, twice. I've had two ex-wives unfairly take my accumulated life savings to date. I've been bilked out of huge sums of money by unscrupulous greedy relatives. I could go on. Nobody gave me money but friends, and I paid it back. These refugees are colored welfare recipient renters for the most part, and didn't have much to lose to begin with. But that $2,000 dole is politically motivated stupid idea. The majority of them will spend it on drugs, beer, wine,lottery tickets and Popeye Chicken and within a few weeks, it's be gone, with nothing to show for it but the sneakers. Sorry, but that's the way it is. REAL dumb use of my tax dollars. Better to spend that money on training them for jobs or getting them off dope or paying their rent ahead in a project... My name is Earl and that's what I think.
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