Yes, exactly! My daughter moved away SIX years ago, established residency in another state, got married and changed her name....and still gets jury summonses and a voter registration card. It just seems like there should be a way to keep these rolls much cleaner.
Yes, exactly! My daughter moved away SIX years ago, established residency in another state, got married and changed her name....and still gets jury summonses and a voter registration card. It just seems like there should be a way to keep these rolls much cleaner.
Bureaucracy of government requires dissolution. Period.
Sunset laws, term limits, Government employment limits, external Gov't auditors with hands-on budget control with PRE-set limits on all spending and hiring.
And people want our health care in the government’s hands? Sad thing is, it is not just the government that has become disfunctional, look at Boeing, our universities, and other businesses.
Yes! That is such a great point. this nonsense is completely ruining companies. I see it all over corporate America too now, and I didn't see it so much 20 years ago. Nobody wants to work anymore and everybody wants to get paid a million dollars. It's absolutely infuriating the way people act today...maybe a nice depression would knock some sense back into people? I just wish I could opt out of that life lesson.
Hate to say it but I agree. People have lost the ability to 'scrap' and save and budget. I was helping a friend move a couple of weeks ago as money is really tight for her and couldn't afford to hire movers. As we were ready to clean her old rental place after we had moved everything out - she had no mop (I use swiffer pads) no cleaning rags (I use paper towels) and after we had used paint brushes to touch up the paint said to just throw them away! Another friend who constantly complains about the Biden economy and how rough it's been for her, had a party Sat night, toward the end of the night she says, everyone take this food home, I am throwing what's left in the trash! Nuts, dried fruit, crackers, cheese, cookies, not perishable stuff. I was like - hey this stuff is still good - she was like, we don't eat leftovers. Heck, we are doing OK (but not as good as Trump years) but I still re-use foil if it didn't get dirty, lol. Cut up old t-shirts for rags, and plan our meals/stock up around sales and coupons unless it's a special occasion. And yeah, we eat leftovers! All the things I used to laugh at my mom and grandma for doing.
We know people who never eat leftovers. Some make big bucks, some struggle. I think it's a mental issue, a depression won't change these people. We always TRY to have leftovers - cook extra, and bring home restaurant leftovers. It's so easy to make a meal - just reheat. We reuse foil, napkins, plastic wrap, anything that's still in good shape. We aren't strapped for cash, but why waste perfectly good stuff? If I were a billionaire, I still wouldn't feel right throwing out perfectly good items and using brand new, just because it doesn't matter financially. Wasting anything is wrong, and should make people feel bad. Strangely, it makes some feel "special".
Yes, if we go out, which is pretty rare, I usually bring half of it home for lunch the next day, and now that it's just hubby and me we eat a lot more leftovers as it's just as easy to make 4 portions as it is 2. Just make a salad and heat up the leftovers. Although alfredo is never as good the next day....
Well said and I wholeheartedly agree! I reuse foil, plastic sandwich & freezer bags, etc. I have a difficult time thinking all this plastic will end up in the garbage dump for years, so I give it a longer life... I also learned that people that appreciate what they have are not wasteful...
Most people have a garbage pickup every week and that's it. It gets picked up a a garbage truck and disappears off to "somewhere" they don't think about. If they would take a trip to their nearest dump, they would be absolutely shocked at all the trash there just for their limited area. It's astounding.
Is it me, though, or are plastic bags flimsier than they used to be? I do try to re-use them if they didn't have raw meat in them, but I first run water in them and see if they leak. About half the time they do.
God has put that on my heart as well. Do not waste...as my grandma said "Waste not, want not." It is a leading of something far greater within us, giving us a protection for what is ahead. If we listen. And, the better nutritional content of our food, the less we will need to eat to be full.
Sadie Jay, "the better nutritional content of our food, the less we will need to eat to be full" is an important observation. Thank you for sharing that awareness.
OMG Donna, we must have had the same mom 😂 My mom reused wax paper bags & foil, washed plastic bags, saved twisty ties & peeled unmarked postage stamps. I used to joke with my sisters but Mom got more out of a penny than anyone I know. The funny part is I notice some of these practices in my own house 😂
Yep! wasting food offends me, lol. We did take home some party leftovers although I did leave the cookies behind. And if we do end up with stale food, meat scraps or whatever I put it out at night for the possums and racoons that wander around. All I know is it's gone in the morning, and our trash doesn't stink. I know for sure it's a raccoon when there are scraps floating in the bird bath in the morning though!
Donna, your comment is on the money. We're cut from the same cloth. I've got so many T-shirt-cloth rags, I'll be taking some of them to Heaven with me.
Yes! All this. There is a web portal I learned about from Chicksontheright instagram page where ideas for cleaning up government bureacracy can be entered. I think it is Policies for People or Policies for the People. My internet connection is not working well so I can’t get to the site to link.
Same here with my previous domicile of New York! Full time Florida Resident with a license, a home, voter! New York summoned me for jury duty six months ago. It got ugly.
My husband got a jury summons 10 years after he’d passed away. Not only that, but it was delivered a week after the date he was supposed to report. Our bureaucracy’s are steeped in ineptitude and chaos. And no one is ever responsible. Ah, the beauty of bureaucracy.😜
It's plausible. But it is low yield retail election manipulation.
High yield election manipulation is accomplished with mail in ballot fraud conducted by "NGOs" and corrupt government "officials" and election "workers" who are receiving daily data about what the results are looking like - because they get to count ballots immediately instead of waiting to count only on election day - and know with absolute precision who has and has not voted and how many ballots are available.
That's what I have always thought, ever since I saw the first election machine. Where I am, we always had a choice of machine or paper ballots. Of course, I always chose paper because I didn't trust the machines and how they could easily be manipulated.
60-minutes last night had Pennsylvania election officials reassuring viewers that there is no way fraud can be committed, which I don't believe. Mail-in-ballot fraud is easy if you know how to do it and have a machine of people organized for that purpose.
I saw that 60-Minutes show and my gut instinct was that the guy they interviewed was lying about it. For one thing, he claimed there was not fraud with such total certainty. Well....he can't really be certain, can he!
Maybe, he was a registered democrat. Florida has purged their voting rolls. I’ll call and find out if he’s still registered. Thank you for pointing this out. I never thought about it.
We moved from Texas to Alabama 24 years ago. Hubs gets jury calls. I never have. ( If I get one now, I’ll know “they” are patrolling our conservative sites. 🤣)
Mine moved away 5 years ago and received 2 notices that she will be removed if she doesn't contact them. She didn't as she was okay with being removed. Last month, I received and absentee ballot application that only requires the last 4 digits of her SS#. That sparked me getting involved. Find a group in your state that scours the voter rolls and get involved.
My daughter moved to MN in May and said she registered to vote there. Before that, she had not changed her registration from our address. She used to continue to vote in our precinct as her job was there, even though she didn't live with us any more. Then got married and got an ID with her married name so just didn't bother to vote. (she is a D so I didn't push the issue) But we got a postcard with her maiden name at our house reminding her to vote in August. So she is still on the rolls here. Our SOS claims his office has been working to clean the voter rolls, so guess we'll see if we get another postcard for her for Nov.
I receive jury summons in my maiden name at my mother's house in AZ. I've been married over 20 years (and legally changed my last name at that time, in AZ, where my marriage license was filed). I've lived in other states, though I live in AZ now. Where I switched my driver's license when I moved back (in 2008, within 90 days), in my married name.
When my mom receives the jury summons, she'll hand them to me and I say, "That person doesn't exist anymore," and I throw them away. BTW, I thought making us all use our SSNs as identity numbers was going to solve all their bureaucratic problems. Instead, identity theft runs rampant.
Who's in charge of the local govt? Most likely it's democrats, not in the top spot, but in the every day worker slot. They may have guidelines that require them to review the voter lists, but do they? No, their liberal supervisor keeps them busy with other jobs & they never have time to check the voter roles. And they probably don't have enough staff to do all the work they're taxed with. Also, they learn how to look busy, but actually do nothing. I worked for a city one time. The water dept workers had been there for decades. Should be able to do their jobs quickly, right? Nope. I watched them recording payments.. & they were excruciatingly slow, some labor-saving processes had been proposed, but they balked at using them, figured they would be replaced, so did whatever they could to sabotage the process & continue their sloth-like work ethic. They installed a drive-thru window for payments... they turned it into a twice as long process.. fire them? No, small town, everyone loved them, they managed to get the new manager removed, so they could continue their tyranny of incompetence.
My answer would be "because it's the perfect way for the Democrats to manipulate an election. In Oregon we have had all mail-in voting for many years. Since it's a one party controlled blue state, there is never a close race so no one questions it. All the Democrats have to do is do a data search of how many "inactive" voters (deceased, moved, etc) there are, and the know exactly how many fake votes they have to work with, in Oregon I've read it's over 100,00, enought go throw any election. That's why we have not had a Republica governor since 1982, 42 years, and why year after year we Oregonians have a Democratic controlled government and congress. They just take the required number of blank ballots and vote them Democrat: Voila, they win, year after year.😡🤬👺
Yes, exactly! My daughter moved away SIX years ago, established residency in another state, got married and changed her name....and still gets jury summonses and a voter registration card. It just seems like there should be a way to keep these rolls much cleaner.
Sounds like a problem that Elon Musk could fix.
I’ll bet he could!
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Bureaucracy of government requires dissolution. Period.
Sunset laws, term limits, Government employment limits, external Gov't auditors with hands-on budget control with PRE-set limits on all spending and hiring.
Amen 100%. This is government inefficiency highlighted. They do not do anything very well.
And people want our health care in the government’s hands? Sad thing is, it is not just the government that has become disfunctional, look at Boeing, our universities, and other businesses.
Yes! That is such a great point. this nonsense is completely ruining companies. I see it all over corporate America too now, and I didn't see it so much 20 years ago. Nobody wants to work anymore and everybody wants to get paid a million dollars. It's absolutely infuriating the way people act today...maybe a nice depression would knock some sense back into people? I just wish I could opt out of that life lesson.
Hate to say it but I agree. People have lost the ability to 'scrap' and save and budget. I was helping a friend move a couple of weeks ago as money is really tight for her and couldn't afford to hire movers. As we were ready to clean her old rental place after we had moved everything out - she had no mop (I use swiffer pads) no cleaning rags (I use paper towels) and after we had used paint brushes to touch up the paint said to just throw them away! Another friend who constantly complains about the Biden economy and how rough it's been for her, had a party Sat night, toward the end of the night she says, everyone take this food home, I am throwing what's left in the trash! Nuts, dried fruit, crackers, cheese, cookies, not perishable stuff. I was like - hey this stuff is still good - she was like, we don't eat leftovers. Heck, we are doing OK (but not as good as Trump years) but I still re-use foil if it didn't get dirty, lol. Cut up old t-shirts for rags, and plan our meals/stock up around sales and coupons unless it's a special occasion. And yeah, we eat leftovers! All the things I used to laugh at my mom and grandma for doing.
We know people who never eat leftovers. Some make big bucks, some struggle. I think it's a mental issue, a depression won't change these people. We always TRY to have leftovers - cook extra, and bring home restaurant leftovers. It's so easy to make a meal - just reheat. We reuse foil, napkins, plastic wrap, anything that's still in good shape. We aren't strapped for cash, but why waste perfectly good stuff? If I were a billionaire, I still wouldn't feel right throwing out perfectly good items and using brand new, just because it doesn't matter financially. Wasting anything is wrong, and should make people feel bad. Strangely, it makes some feel "special".
Yes, if we go out, which is pretty rare, I usually bring half of it home for lunch the next day, and now that it's just hubby and me we eat a lot more leftovers as it's just as easy to make 4 portions as it is 2. Just make a salad and heat up the leftovers. Although alfredo is never as good the next day....
Well said and I wholeheartedly agree! I reuse foil, plastic sandwich & freezer bags, etc. I have a difficult time thinking all this plastic will end up in the garbage dump for years, so I give it a longer life... I also learned that people that appreciate what they have are not wasteful...
Most people have a garbage pickup every week and that's it. It gets picked up a a garbage truck and disappears off to "somewhere" they don't think about. If they would take a trip to their nearest dump, they would be absolutely shocked at all the trash there just for their limited area. It's astounding.
Is it me, though, or are plastic bags flimsier than they used to be? I do try to re-use them if they didn't have raw meat in them, but I first run water in them and see if they leak. About half the time they do.
God has put that on my heart as well. Do not waste...as my grandma said "Waste not, want not." It is a leading of something far greater within us, giving us a protection for what is ahead. If we listen. And, the better nutritional content of our food, the less we will need to eat to be full.
Sadie Jay, "the better nutritional content of our food, the less we will need to eat to be full" is an important observation. Thank you for sharing that awareness.
OMG Donna, we must have had the same mom 😂 My mom reused wax paper bags & foil, washed plastic bags, saved twisty ties & peeled unmarked postage stamps. I used to joke with my sisters but Mom got more out of a penny than anyone I know. The funny part is I notice some of these practices in my own house 😂
Yep! wasting food offends me, lol. We did take home some party leftovers although I did leave the cookies behind. And if we do end up with stale food, meat scraps or whatever I put it out at night for the possums and racoons that wander around. All I know is it's gone in the morning, and our trash doesn't stink. I know for sure it's a raccoon when there are scraps floating in the bird bath in the morning though!
Donna, your comment is on the money. We're cut from the same cloth. I've got so many T-shirt-cloth rags, I'll be taking some of them to Heaven with me.
My daughter’s nickname for me is Mopina Queen; I only use paper towels for gross cleanups (vomit, poop)
Yes, cat barf is definitely a paper towel thing.....oh and soaking up the bacon grease.
Noooo!! You SURELY don't throw away BACON GREASE!?!?!?????!!! PPL ARE STARVING.....
My MIL saves it and uses it for scrambled eggs & fried potatoes....
RJ, you made me laugh! How can you reuse bacon grease on a paper towel from the microwave? Wipe it off the plate? Not enough to cook anything😊
Use toilet paper and you can flush it esp. for the animal stuff.
LOL
Jen, you think so? Well then, you should welcome a Democratic administration/WHO/WEF takeover.
I would vote for all the above!
Yes! All this. There is a web portal I learned about from Chicksontheright instagram page where ideas for cleaning up government bureacracy can be entered. I think it is Policies for People or Policies for the People. My internet connection is not working well so I can’t get to the site to link.
Lots of great input there!
It is RFKJr’s portal to Team Trump.
...and the death penalty for corrupt auditors...
Same here with my previous domicile of New York! Full time Florida Resident with a license, a home, voter! New York summoned me for jury duty six months ago. It got ugly.
My husband got a jury summons 10 years after he’d passed away. Not only that, but it was delivered a week after the date he was supposed to report. Our bureaucracy’s are steeped in ineptitude and chaos. And no one is ever responsible. Ah, the beauty of bureaucracy.😜
Emumundo - they are voting for your deceased husband.
Now that's an interesting thought: send out a jury summons and if the individual doesn't respond, cast his vote for him.
It's plausible. But it is low yield retail election manipulation.
High yield election manipulation is accomplished with mail in ballot fraud conducted by "NGOs" and corrupt government "officials" and election "workers" who are receiving daily data about what the results are looking like - because they get to count ballots immediately instead of waiting to count only on election day - and know with absolute precision who has and has not voted and how many ballots are available.
Or simply inject an algorithm into the machine via WiFi which you then scrub after the election.
That's what I have always thought, ever since I saw the first election machine. Where I am, we always had a choice of machine or paper ballots. Of course, I always chose paper because I didn't trust the machines and how they could easily be manipulated.
60-minutes last night had Pennsylvania election officials reassuring viewers that there is no way fraud can be committed, which I don't believe. Mail-in-ballot fraud is easy if you know how to do it and have a machine of people organized for that purpose.
I saw that 60-Minutes show and my gut instinct was that the guy they interviewed was lying about it. For one thing, he claimed there was not fraud with such total certainty. Well....he can't really be certain, can he!
Your guts are instinctive and of course right! Some part of our brains reside in our guts.
They are running commercials in Wisconsin saying the same thing.
I thought the suitcases at midnight were quite efficient. You have to get rid of the other counters first.
And close the shutters.
Maybe, he was a registered democrat. Florida has purged their voting rolls. I’ll call and find out if he’s still registered. Thank you for pointing this out. I never thought about it.
Heh. I count on that! The next time I receive a Jury Duty Summons, I will toss it.
NO! We need thinking folks like C&C readers on juries.
I just can’t. I dated a Superior Court Judge and now that I know what these people are all about, I have no desire to be any part of it.
Neither does the defendant, who might need your help.
Sorry, I cannot be “unbiased” when I am FORCED to sit in a courtroom against my will.
Wow.
Guess what? I accidentally missed my jury appointment about 6 yrs ago. I’ve never been called since. I used to get called every other year!
We moved from Texas to Alabama 24 years ago. Hubs gets jury calls. I never have. ( If I get one now, I’ll know “they” are patrolling our conservative sites. 🤣)
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Love your emoji series!
Always happy to make some room for a New Yorker that appreciates C&C.
Mine moved away 5 years ago and received 2 notices that she will be removed if she doesn't contact them. She didn't as she was okay with being removed. Last month, I received and absentee ballot application that only requires the last 4 digits of her SS#. That sparked me getting involved. Find a group in your state that scours the voter rolls and get involved.
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Apparently, the path to victory is to change your name every time you add a gender, and then vote each gender as if it were a different person.
I’ll bet if I tried that, I’d be in the Fed Pen 16 years.
In cheatin' Pennsylvania? You could probably do that and vote yourself into office.
My daughter moved to MN in May and said she registered to vote there. Before that, she had not changed her registration from our address. She used to continue to vote in our precinct as her job was there, even though she didn't live with us any more. Then got married and got an ID with her married name so just didn't bother to vote. (she is a D so I didn't push the issue) But we got a postcard with her maiden name at our house reminding her to vote in August. So she is still on the rolls here. Our SOS claims his office has been working to clean the voter rolls, so guess we'll see if we get another postcard for her for Nov.
I receive jury summons in my maiden name at my mother's house in AZ. I've been married over 20 years (and legally changed my last name at that time, in AZ, where my marriage license was filed). I've lived in other states, though I live in AZ now. Where I switched my driver's license when I moved back (in 2008, within 90 days), in my married name.
When my mom receives the jury summons, she'll hand them to me and I say, "That person doesn't exist anymore," and I throw them away. BTW, I thought making us all use our SSNs as identity numbers was going to solve all their bureaucratic problems. Instead, identity theft runs rampant.
Who's in charge of the local govt? Most likely it's democrats, not in the top spot, but in the every day worker slot. They may have guidelines that require them to review the voter lists, but do they? No, their liberal supervisor keeps them busy with other jobs & they never have time to check the voter roles. And they probably don't have enough staff to do all the work they're taxed with. Also, they learn how to look busy, but actually do nothing. I worked for a city one time. The water dept workers had been there for decades. Should be able to do their jobs quickly, right? Nope. I watched them recording payments.. & they were excruciatingly slow, some labor-saving processes had been proposed, but they balked at using them, figured they would be replaced, so did whatever they could to sabotage the process & continue their sloth-like work ethic. They installed a drive-thru window for payments... they turned it into a twice as long process.. fire them? No, small town, everyone loved them, they managed to get the new manager removed, so they could continue their tyranny of incompetence.
My answer would be "because it's the perfect way for the Democrats to manipulate an election. In Oregon we have had all mail-in voting for many years. Since it's a one party controlled blue state, there is never a close race so no one questions it. All the Democrats have to do is do a data search of how many "inactive" voters (deceased, moved, etc) there are, and the know exactly how many fake votes they have to work with, in Oregon I've read it's over 100,00, enought go throw any election. That's why we have not had a Republica governor since 1982, 42 years, and why year after year we Oregonians have a Democratic controlled government and congress. They just take the required number of blank ballots and vote them Democrat: Voila, they win, year after year.😡🤬👺
John, do you have any evidence for this, that Oregon manipulates the votes?
That would be a great challenge for Mr. Musk, in his advisory role to cut government waste and increase efficiency and accuracy!
Same here- our daughter moved to CA and registered there years ago…she still gets a WA voter registration here at home!!🙃
See my Oregon post in the above thread.