Tim Cahill: Things that Made Me Angry
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Tim Cahill, GoLocalWorcester MINDSETTER™
WHEN PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO ADD: I came across a story about how the state gained fewer jobs than reported in 2011. Not just a few, but tens of thousands. The number of jobs added was just 9,000, not the 41,000 reported by the state's Labor and Workforce Development Office. Pretty big miss! Of course after correcting the mistake they went on to report that 6,000 new jobs were added in January 2012.
WHEN THOSE SAME PEOPLE CAN'T SUBTRACT: This same agency is intent on giving out unemployment benefits to public employees who aren't qualified. Even when local administrators are doing the right thing by taxpayers denying claims, this agency refuses to subtract. It is costing the state millions to give benefits to retired police officers, bus drivers who go on unemployment during school breaks, and members of boards and commissions who collect after failing to get reappointed.
WHEN JONATHAN PAPLEBON SPEAKS: Phillies fans are smarter than Red Sox fans and understand the game better. Really! The reason teams make a pitcher a closer in the first place is because he can't think. He can only throw. Let's see how smart and understanding those Philadelphia fans are Jon, when you blow a save that costs your new team a playoff spot.
WHEN NEWT GINGRICH SPEAKS: Just stop whining, Newt. You are running for President and you have won in two out of twenty states so far. One of them was your home state and the other bordering your home state. Come on! You can throw a punch but you have a glass chin. Can we stop already with the talk of how brilliant this man is. Staying in the race only guarantees that the candidate you so obviously despise, Mitt Romney, wins. How brilliant is that?
GETTING BEHIND SOMEONE AT A CONVENIENCE STORE BUYING LOTTERY TICKETS: I used to like it when I was Treasurer but now it annoys me to no end. Just figure out what you want before you get in line! It's like getting stuck behind someone at Dunkin Donuts who is ordering a dozen doughnuts, one-at-a-time, when all you want is a coffee.
GREECE: Just drop the Euro and return to the drachma before I scream. It is going to happen eventually. Everyone knows it but the European Central Bank, Sarkosy, and Merkel. Greece is as dysfunctional as was Lehman Brothers and MF Global. Both are gone today because their leaders would not face the truth until it was too late. With Greece it's already too late. Bailouts never work, they simply extend the suffering.
THE PLASTIC WRAP AROUND BRIGHAMS ICE CREAM CONTAINERS : Really, we are talking ice cream here. Does it have to be child-proof like aspirin? Late at night I just want a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream after a long day at work. I do not want to wrestle with the ice cream. I just want to eat it. Is ice cream not safe from the terrorists? Will I have to take off my shoes and send it through an x-ray machine before I eat it now?
WHEN THE BOSTON GLOBE ACCUSES MITT ROMNEY OF BEING AN ELITIST: Let's just call it a tie. Neither is very good at appealing to the middle class. Both are known to miss the mark on occasion. Until either the Globe or Romney goes into the Copeland Street "packy" in Quincy, to buy a six-pack of Bud, a pack of smokes, and some scratch tickets, neither will be able to speak for the common man.
WHEN COLUMNISTS RESORT TO LISTS: Let's face it, we come up with lists when we don't have any well-thought out ideas for a full column. But then again, management here at GoLocal seem to have a fondness for lists, in case you haven't already noticed. Besides, so many things made me angry this week.
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