Monday, October 26, 2015
Learning To Read
-Federal
Government actually wants to move offices to our little hick town! Jobs!
-And?
-Our Senator
“Government-Waste” against it at the top of his lungs! His “statement” goes on
detailing the additional fraud and abuse of the particular department. Thus, lots
of face-time on all the networks, too. Bottom line: no chance! His Crusade! Against US now!
-A shame
because we could use those positions. Just about a gray depression here!
-Yeah, whole
town’s color of suet.
-Whatta crumb!
-But, well…that’s
not the way I read it. So…final, I mean. I actually read “I’m ultimately okay
with it…if my nephews and nieces get jobs.”
-Reading…is
an art, then? Even though it can go quite slow.
-You can never
really really perfect it in one lifetime.
-So…when can
the new offices open?
-When he gets
back here to cut the ribbon.
-Family can
help him do that.
-Nothing is
more probable!
Labels: local politics, Nepotism, political wisdom, reading
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
Dreaming the Future
Councils
He dreams continuously of screwing small brass parts together,
and awakes exhausted, with stiff and throbbing fingers.
Night after night. Finally, gets permission to present his
case to the Dream Council.
All listen thoughtfully except a quite fat woman. "Now you
know what it feels like to actually WORK!"
He assures her that his meet-greet job involving immigrants
can be tiring: keeping up the smile and patter etc.
“I don't understand all these song-and-dance positions. And why
do we even need an Immigrant Council? They get everything
they want already. At the expense of true Americans!”
She later insists her remarks be stricken from the record.
Meets him later at the compulsory coffee. "I'm sorry to undermine
your real work, but getting tired of all the whining, especially
from Spick-e-os, and the Black and Yellow Perils." She chomps
a danish menacingly.
He puts the small black square from the council under his pillow that night and sleeps well, but wakes thinking of the virulent fat woman.
He would have reported her to The Surveillance Council, but anyone who did was, in turn, intensely shadowed in minute by minute life and online.
It had been six years with one couple he knew, and they even
invited one of their trailers to their Wedding Anniversary party.
Originally, they had made the mistake of complaining about a neighbor's uproarious Nazi Sing-Alongs.
Surveillance Council, in sum, ended up with virtually no work and
thus became a natural berth for politician's sons and daughters,
their parties legendary.
Labels: council, future, government, immigration, Nepotism, surveillance
Friday, May 17, 2013
Mushy Quarter
“That particular department is a dun nebulosity.
First instituted to give jobs to ne’er-do-well
nephews and vacant nieces.
You never dispatch an ideologue to head it up--
be like biting the wind. So parties send good ole
hacks, interchangeable.
Thus, scandal must be thin on the ground if you're
attacking it. And for what? What boils down to is an
office football pool!
They'll prove was started under one of our regimes,
anyway.
Find somewhere else to scratch the rube's itch for
scandal. I realize that waste, fraud, and abuse are
rare in Washington, but...”
“That particular department is a dun nebulosity.
First instituted to give jobs to ne’er-do-well
nephews and vacant nieces.
You never dispatch an ideologue to head it up--
be like biting the wind. So parties send good ole
hacks, interchangeable.
Thus, scandal must be thin on the ground if you're
attacking it. And for what? What boils down to is an
office football pool!
They'll prove was started under one of our regimes,
anyway.
Find somewhere else to scratch the rube's itch for
scandal. I realize that waste, fraud, and abuse are
rare in Washington, but...”
Labels: abuse, department, football, fraud, hack, Ideologue, Nepotism, politics, scandal, waste
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
New College President
-What I hear most about the present guy is that he’s beloved.
-Well now isn’t that just Apple Pie!
-Your nephew as a college president? I don’t know...
-Hey! The only qualification seems to be a doctorate. He got that, but I’ll be damned if I can tell you how. Though he’s not as dumb as a bag of hammers, he’s not much smarter.
-I hope he can act the part then.
-Beautifully! What he really brings is fundraising. Terrific at it. That’s the main job anyway. The scholar bit is wayyyy back!
-It just remains, then, easing the old guy out.
-He’ll go. For one thing he got one of those old fashioned pension things.
-Hasn’t been 401-K’od?
-Nope. Evaded that massive screwing. Therefore he can golf content in Boca or wherever.
-Most good pensions demolished courtesy of your legislature.
-MY legislature? Hyperbole! Well...does sound bad, but I guess it’s accurate enough.
-What I hear most about the present guy is that he’s beloved.
-Well now isn’t that just Apple Pie!
-Your nephew as a college president? I don’t know...
-Hey! The only qualification seems to be a doctorate. He got that, but I’ll be damned if I can tell you how. Though he’s not as dumb as a bag of hammers, he’s not much smarter.
-I hope he can act the part then.
-Beautifully! What he really brings is fundraising. Terrific at it. That’s the main job anyway. The scholar bit is wayyyy back!
-It just remains, then, easing the old guy out.
-He’ll go. For one thing he got one of those old fashioned pension things.
-Hasn’t been 401-K’od?
-Nope. Evaded that massive screwing. Therefore he can golf content in Boca or wherever.
-Most good pensions demolished courtesy of your legislature.
-MY legislature? Hyperbole! Well...does sound bad, but I guess it’s accurate enough.
Labels: 401-K, college, dedicated pension, education, Nepotism, pension, politics
Friday, March 18, 2011
The Power Couple
He, Senator. She,
by dint of brilliance
none fathom, Head
of an agency, once
obscure. Together
they grease the sluice-
ways for those who
later employ them.
“Serendipity!” they shout,
joyously. “Just lucked out
by so exclusively serving
the public!” In old London Town,
you walked the middle of
the cobbles since
shit showered down
from establishments.
Labels: bribery, Nepotism, political corruption
