Heaven and Hell

While walking down the street one day a Corrupt Senator was tragically hit by a car and died.

His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.

“Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we’re not sure what to do with you.”

“No problem, just let me in,” says the Senator.

“Well, I’d like to, but I have orders from the higher ups. What we’ll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.”

“Really?, I’ve made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,” says the Senator.

“I’m sorry, but we have our rules.”

And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.

The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.

Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.
They played a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and the finest champagne.

Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who is having a good time dancing and telling jokes.

They are all having such a good time that before the Senator realizes it, it is time to go.

Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises.

The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens in heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him, “Now it’s time to visit heaven…”

So, 24 hours passed with the Senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.

“Well, then, you’ve spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity.”

The Senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: “Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell.”

So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell…

Now the doors of the elevator open and he’s in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above

The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulders.

“I don’t understand,” stammers the Senator. “Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there’s just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?”

The devil smiles at him and says,

“Yesterday we were campaigning, Today, you voted..”

Vote wisely on November 2.

My Support Ends For Kathy Lambert

For the next election, I will no longer support Kathy Lambert as our representative for King County Council District 3! As a driver for Metro, I can no longer support her spearheading the assault on Metro and other King County employees livelihood! I am also considering canceling my subscription to the Seattle Sunday Times as they seem to have a recent passion for bashing County employees also! Most of this unfair reporting and heavy-handedness stems from a report from the Washington Policy Center and a recent audit of Metro operations! The knee jerk reactions from Lambert and other Council members show me they cannot think outside of the box and come up with more realistic solutions to the County budget problems! Let’s see……the County Council members along with Mr. Constantine decide to spend down Metros reserves on other crisis issues against the advice of Metro Managers! Then comes the schedule adjustments in a reaction of the audit saying there is too much layover time for the buses in an effort to save money. The new schedules are not even drivable now and in my opinion, unsafe! This has eroded Metro’s on time performance with many routes running constantly late! The drivers are getting very little break time and are being heavily stressed! This ridiculous policy will eventually cost the County way more in any money saved in L&I claims, medical and insurance payouts, accidents and possible law suits caused by these impossible schedules! Now comes the assault on County employees pay and benefits. I still cannot understand the corporate and political attack on living wage jobs in this country! The United States has gone from a producing to a consuming country! In order to continue in this consumption economy, the populace have to have the means to spend, therefore consume. When living wage jobs are outsourced and eliminated, this reduces the means to keep up with consumption rate needed to sustain the “new economy” and it falls like a house of cards! One doesn’t need a degree in Economics to understand this! Apparently most of our politicians don’t get it or are forced to ignore it! Now we come to how Metro is mainly funded and that is by sales taxes! By this all out attack on thousands of workers whom all spend money in the County, aren’t you just pulling the rug right out from under the County budget? It would seem so to me and there by exasperating the budget crisis!

I implore those of you reading this to also read page 4 of the following article linked here to get a reality check of what really is going on with our dilemma as County employees and then make a better educated decision on who to throw your support. Also feel free to check out some of the other articles written to find out just who is this Washington Policy Center really is!