Dear Friends:
The financial meltdown the economists of the Austrian School predicted has arrived.
We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? More artificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt and malinvestment is to be allowed. By doing more of the same, we will only continue and intensify the distortions in our economy - all the capital misallocation, all the malinvestment - and prevent the market's attempt to re-establish rational pricing of houses and other assets.
Last night the president addressed the nation about the financial crisis. There is no point in going through his remarks line by line, since I'd only be repeating what I've been saying over and over - not just for the past several days, but for years and even decades.
Still, at least a few observations are necessary.
The president assures us that his administration "is working with Congress to address the root cause behind much of the instability in our markets." Care to take a guess at whether the Federal Reserve and its money creation spree were even mentioned?
We are told that "low interest rates" led to excessive borrowing, but we are not told how these low interest rates came about. They were a deliberate policy of the Federal Reserve. As always, artificially low interest rates distort the market. Entrepreneurs engage in malinvestments - investments that do not make sense in light of current resource availability, that occur in more temporally remote stages of the capital structure than the pattern of consumer demand can support, and that would not have been made at all if the interest rate had been permitted to tell the truth instead of being toyed with by the Fed.
Not a word about any of that, of course, because Americans might then discover how the great wise men in Washington caused this great debacle. Better to keep scapegoating the mortgage industry or "wildcat capitalism" (as if we actually have a pure free market!).
Speaking about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the president said: "Because these companies were chartered by Congress, many believed they were guaranteed by the federal government. This allowed them to borrow enormous sums of money, fuel the market for questionable investments, and put our financial system at risk."
Doesn't that prove the foolishness of chartering Fannie and Freddie in the first place? Doesn't that suggest that maybe, just maybe, government may have contributed to this mess? And of course, by bailing out Fannie and Freddie, hasn't the federal government shown that the "many" who "believed they were guaranteed by the federal government" were in fact correct?
Then come the scare tactics. If we don't give dictatorial powers to the Treasury Secretary "the stock market would drop even more, which would reduce the value of your retirement account. The value of your home could plummet." Left unsaid, naturally, is that with the bailout and all the money and credit that must be produced out of thin air to fund it, the value of your retirement account will drop anyway, because the value of the dollar will suffer a precipitous decline. As for home prices, they are obviously much too high, and supply and demand cannot equilibrate if government insists on propping them up.
It's the same destructive strategy that government tried during the Great Depression: prop up prices at all costs. The Depression went on for over a decade. On the other hand, when liquidation was allowed to occur in the equally devastating downturn of 1921, the economy recovered within less than a year.
The president also tells us that Senators McCain and Obama will join him at the White House today in order to figure out how to get the bipartisan bailout passed. The two senators would do their country much more good if they stayed on the campaign trail debating who the bigger celebrity is, or whatever it is that occupies their attention these days.
F.A. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' manipulation of interest rates creates the boom-bust cycle with which we are sadly familiar. In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, he described the foolish policies being pursued in his day - and which are being proposed, just as destructively, in our own:
Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustments brought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable means have been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one of these means, which has been repeatedly tried though without success, from the earliest to the most recent stages of depression, has been this deliberate policy of credit expansion.
To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection - a procedure that can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end... It is probably to this experiment, together with the attempts to prevent liquidation once the crisis had come, that we owe the exceptional severity and duration of the depression.
The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.
The very people who have spent the past several years assuring us that the economy is fundamentally sound, and who themselves foolishly cheered the extension of all these novel kinds of mortgages, are the ones who now claim to be the experts who will restore prosperity! Just how spectacularly wrong, how utterly without a clue, does someone have to be before his expert status is called into question?
Oh, and did you notice that the bailout is now being called a "rescue plan"? I guess "bailout" wasn't sitting too well with the American people.
The very people who with somber faces tell us of their deep concern for the spread of democracy around the world are the ones most insistent on forcing a bill through Congress that the American people overwhelmingly oppose. The very fact that some of you seem to think you're supposed to have a voice in all this actually seems to annoy them.
I continue to urge you to contact your representatives and give them a piece of your mind. I myself am doing everything I can to promote the correct point of view on the crisis. Be sure also to educate yourselves on these subjects - the Campaign for Liberty blog is an excellent place to start. Read the posts, ask questions in the comment section, and learn.
H.G. Wells once said that civilization was in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
In liberty,
Ron Paul
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Signs you...
...watch too much T.V.
You eat a Mentos's hoping it will give you the inspiration to solve your problems.
You wrote a letter to the Governor explaining that those guys
from Prison Break are innocent and who the real bad guys are.
You don't worry about corrupt government officials. You know that Jack Bauer will take care of them in a few hours or so.
You go to the store and realize you're still holding the remote.
You believe that the world was once Black and White.
After someone says something funny you pause for the laugh track.
Sometimes you turn and address the "audience" like Malcolm and Clarissa.
You believe Real Life to be overrated, not to mention a shameless rip-off of the "Real World".
You're already to the mail box when you realize that your neighbors; unlike people on T.V., can see that you're just in your underwear.
...play too many video games.
You can't dance without scrolling arrows.
When you are about to do something difficult, your first instinct is to save.
You've attempted a double jump.
You have no qualms about eating a roasted turkey that you found on the ground.
You're downtown and think "This is just like SimCity?"
When you hear people telling war stories, you tell them about the time you stormed Castle Wolfenstein and killed Hitler.
You refer to your job as "Level Grinding".
You eat a Mentos's hoping it will give you the inspiration to solve your problems.
You wrote a letter to the Governor explaining that those guys
from Prison Break are innocent and who the real bad guys are.
You don't worry about corrupt government officials. You know that Jack Bauer will take care of them in a few hours or so.
You go to the store and realize you're still holding the remote.
You believe that the world was once Black and White.
After someone says something funny you pause for the laugh track.
Sometimes you turn and address the "audience" like Malcolm and Clarissa.
You believe Real Life to be overrated, not to mention a shameless rip-off of the "Real World".
You're already to the mail box when you realize that your neighbors; unlike people on T.V., can see that you're just in your underwear.
...play too many video games.
You can't dance without scrolling arrows.
When you are about to do something difficult, your first instinct is to save.
You've attempted a double jump.
You have no qualms about eating a roasted turkey that you found on the ground.
You're downtown and think "This is just like SimCity?"
When you hear people telling war stories, you tell them about the time you stormed Castle Wolfenstein and killed Hitler.
You refer to your job as "Level Grinding".
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Government
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
A professor in a large college that included some exchange students noticed one of them rubbing and stretching his back as if it hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question: 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you p ut a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again, and you put up another side of the fence.
'They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in The last side. When the pigs start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they return to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.
One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch; a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends.
Gerald R. Ford
Address to a Joint Session of Congress
August 12, 1974
I don't know if Gerald R. Ford really did give this address, but I found it on a friend's blog and thought it was neat.
A professor in a large college that included some exchange students noticed one of them rubbing and stretching his back as if it hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question: 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you p ut a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again, and you put up another side of the fence.
'They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in The last side. When the pigs start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they return to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.
One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch; a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends.
Gerald R. Ford
Address to a Joint Session of Congress
August 12, 1974
I don't know if Gerald R. Ford really did give this address, but I found it on a friend's blog and thought it was neat.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Down memory lane.
It's a memory post.
Leave a comment on my blog of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you've known me for a short time, or a long time. Anything you remember!
Join in and post these instructions on your blog and see what memories you are a part of. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.
On your mark, get set, remember!!
Leave a comment on my blog of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you've known me for a short time, or a long time. Anything you remember!
Join in and post these instructions on your blog and see what memories you are a part of. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.
On your mark, get set, remember!!
Who is God?
Who is God?
God ( or Elohim ) is the Ruler of the Universe.
He is called the Father because He is the Father of our Spirits. He is all knowing, all powerful and through His Spirit; all present.
We are created in His express image. We have body's like his, but where ours are imperfect and mortal, His is perfect and immortal.
He has sent His Children (us) here (Earth), so that we may learn and grow, that we may be joint-heirs of God with Christ (1 Corinthians 15:24-28, Romans 8:14-17).
God speaks to us in different ways. Through men known as Prophets (including the inspired writings thereof, the Scriptures), through His Son Jesus The Christ, through the power of the Holy Ghost, though visions or dreams, or very rarely, directly to us, in that we can hear His voice and see His face.
Who is Jesus
Jesus is The Christ (Greek: Anointed, Hebrew: Messiah), The Son of God.
He is the God of the Old Testament, Jehovah or I AM. He is the Creator of this and many other worlds. Before the world was; it was decided upon that He would make possible the redemption of our sins which we would inevitably commit. We would be required to Believe on Him, Love Him, repent of our sins, and follow the commandments. Before He came in the Flesh, He spoke through men who we call Prophets. Through them, He taught us and made His will known.
In what is known as the "Meridian of Time" (about 2000 years ago), he was born to a pure and humble woman named Mary. Although she was still a virgin, through unknown (miraculous) means she conceived and bore Him as her Son. He was both God and man. From His Father He inherited divinity, from his Mother, Mortality. Although He was born in Bethlehem and then taken to Egypt to protect Him from the King, His Mother and step-Father were from Nazareth. He was therefore known as Jesus of Nazareth.
At about the age of thirty, He sought out his cousin John ( "The Baptist") who was the current Prophet so that he could be baptized; not because he needed His sins to be remitted, for He had committed none, but because it is a essential ordinance.
Jesus then, after much prayer and fasting, began His ministry. He called Disciples (followers) to Him, and from them He made twelve Apostles ( who were His special representatives and witnesses )
As He toured Palestine He preached the need for Love, Repentance, keeping the commandments, studying the Scriptures and Respect. He taught the conditions for entering the Kingdom of Heaven, told of the things to come, restored teachings that had been lost or perverted, and He cured all manner of ailments and restored life to the dead.
He was opposed by the two major Jewish denominations of the day, the Sadducee's (a aristocracy which believed only in the revelations given to Moses) and Pharisees (who held written Law and oral tradition as equal). Both demanded strict adherence to the commandments, but neglected the spiritual aspects.
Because Jesus spoke with authority, healed people on the Sabbath and said that He was Jehovah, they wished to kill Him. They could not do it openly however, for many of the people believed that He was a prophet. Therefore they had to arrest Him and try Him in secret.
Before He was arrested He began the process of the Atonement. He journeyed to a garden and prayed to His Father asking if there was another way to atone, but stating that He would follow the will of His Father. There was not another way, and in the Garden He took upon Himself the sins and sufferings of all mankind. The stress was so great that he bled from every pore and an angel was sent to strengthen Him. He was arrested soon after. The trial proceedings were illegal in almost every way. Because under Roman rule, The Jews were not allowed to execute people, so they sent Him to the Romans, telling them He was a rebel against the Roman Empire. They found Him innocent, but because so many people wanted Him to die, they tortured and crucified Him.
When He gave up His life on the cross, with our sins on His head, He made it possible for us to be cleansed of our sins if we repent and follow Him.
After He died His work was not done, He went to the Spirit World and preached to those who had died without a chance to hear the Gospel.
On the third day after His Death, He was Resurrected ( resurrection is different than being brought back from the dead. Resurrection means that not only has your Spirit been rejoined with your body, but your body has been renewed and been made immortal). All mankind will be resurrected, first the righteous at His Second Coming, and then after a thousand years the unrighteous. Then all people will be judged according to their works.
He taught the Apostles for the next forty days, and charged them with maintaining His Church and spreading the Gospel.
The Church He established is on the earth today. It is called
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Who is the Holy Ghost?
The Holy Ghost ( or Holy Spirit ) is the third member of the Godhead.
Unlike The Father and The Son, The Holy Ghost does not have a body of flesh and bone but of spirit only.
It is Through The Holy Ghost that we receive our testimony's, that we are comforted and through which revelation is received.
The Gift of The Holy Ghost is received by the laying on of hands after baptism by immersion by one who has the proper authority. This is called the baptism of fire because He acts as a purifier of sin. He will be your constant companion so long as you are worthy.
I testify that these things are true, and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
God ( or Elohim ) is the Ruler of the Universe.
He is called the Father because He is the Father of our Spirits. He is all knowing, all powerful and through His Spirit; all present.
We are created in His express image. We have body's like his, but where ours are imperfect and mortal, His is perfect and immortal.
He has sent His Children (us) here (Earth), so that we may learn and grow, that we may be joint-heirs of God with Christ (1 Corinthians 15:24-28, Romans 8:14-17).
God speaks to us in different ways. Through men known as Prophets (including the inspired writings thereof, the Scriptures), through His Son Jesus The Christ, through the power of the Holy Ghost, though visions or dreams, or very rarely, directly to us, in that we can hear His voice and see His face.
Who is Jesus
Jesus is The Christ (Greek: Anointed, Hebrew: Messiah), The Son of God.
He is the God of the Old Testament, Jehovah or I AM. He is the Creator of this and many other worlds. Before the world was; it was decided upon that He would make possible the redemption of our sins which we would inevitably commit. We would be required to Believe on Him, Love Him, repent of our sins, and follow the commandments. Before He came in the Flesh, He spoke through men who we call Prophets. Through them, He taught us and made His will known.
In what is known as the "Meridian of Time" (about 2000 years ago), he was born to a pure and humble woman named Mary. Although she was still a virgin, through unknown (miraculous) means she conceived and bore Him as her Son. He was both God and man. From His Father He inherited divinity, from his Mother, Mortality. Although He was born in Bethlehem and then taken to Egypt to protect Him from the King, His Mother and step-Father were from Nazareth. He was therefore known as Jesus of Nazareth.
At about the age of thirty, He sought out his cousin John ( "The Baptist") who was the current Prophet so that he could be baptized; not because he needed His sins to be remitted, for He had committed none, but because it is a essential ordinance.
Jesus then, after much prayer and fasting, began His ministry. He called Disciples (followers) to Him, and from them He made twelve Apostles ( who were His special representatives and witnesses )
As He toured Palestine He preached the need for Love, Repentance, keeping the commandments, studying the Scriptures and Respect. He taught the conditions for entering the Kingdom of Heaven, told of the things to come, restored teachings that had been lost or perverted, and He cured all manner of ailments and restored life to the dead.
He was opposed by the two major Jewish denominations of the day, the Sadducee's (a aristocracy which believed only in the revelations given to Moses) and Pharisees (who held written Law and oral tradition as equal). Both demanded strict adherence to the commandments, but neglected the spiritual aspects.
Because Jesus spoke with authority, healed people on the Sabbath and said that He was Jehovah, they wished to kill Him. They could not do it openly however, for many of the people believed that He was a prophet. Therefore they had to arrest Him and try Him in secret.
Before He was arrested He began the process of the Atonement. He journeyed to a garden and prayed to His Father asking if there was another way to atone, but stating that He would follow the will of His Father. There was not another way, and in the Garden He took upon Himself the sins and sufferings of all mankind. The stress was so great that he bled from every pore and an angel was sent to strengthen Him. He was arrested soon after. The trial proceedings were illegal in almost every way. Because under Roman rule, The Jews were not allowed to execute people, so they sent Him to the Romans, telling them He was a rebel against the Roman Empire. They found Him innocent, but because so many people wanted Him to die, they tortured and crucified Him.
When He gave up His life on the cross, with our sins on His head, He made it possible for us to be cleansed of our sins if we repent and follow Him.
After He died His work was not done, He went to the Spirit World and preached to those who had died without a chance to hear the Gospel.
On the third day after His Death, He was Resurrected ( resurrection is different than being brought back from the dead. Resurrection means that not only has your Spirit been rejoined with your body, but your body has been renewed and been made immortal). All mankind will be resurrected, first the righteous at His Second Coming, and then after a thousand years the unrighteous. Then all people will be judged according to their works.
He taught the Apostles for the next forty days, and charged them with maintaining His Church and spreading the Gospel.
The Church He established is on the earth today. It is called
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Who is the Holy Ghost?
The Holy Ghost ( or Holy Spirit ) is the third member of the Godhead.
Unlike The Father and The Son, The Holy Ghost does not have a body of flesh and bone but of spirit only.
It is Through The Holy Ghost that we receive our testimony's, that we are comforted and through which revelation is received.
The Gift of The Holy Ghost is received by the laying on of hands after baptism by immersion by one who has the proper authority. This is called the baptism of fire because He acts as a purifier of sin. He will be your constant companion so long as you are worthy.
I testify that these things are true, and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Chill V Wayne
Please note: The following is Satire.
"Imagine a country without Chill, where one million people a year ( the number of people who rob ) would have to consider whether they may end up charged with a crime?"
On January 22 1973, the Supreme Court court ruled in favor of Joe Chill in the famous Chill v. Wayne case, which over turned centuries of discrimination against the profession of mugger.
Before that time, many muggers, finding their career choice illegal, were forced to conduct their business in back alleys; a dangerous proposition.
Many died of complications in botched operations. Business grew slow as most people began avoiding the alleys. And yet for fear of prosecution ( or more accurately persecution)they dared not enter the target rich environment of the main streets.
On that day, men, women and children rejoiced! No longer would one's right to mug be violated! No longer would the police chase someone for knocking down a old woman and stealing her purse! No longer would people be fired from their job should their boss find out that they had stabbed a man in the park and took his shoes!
But some people still see this as a "evil". They call it sin. This minority has much power, and wishes to force it's own out-dated religious beliefs on the rest of us. Using words such as "victim" and "innocent" in their rhetoric, they seek nothing less then the complete over turning of "Chill vs Wayne! They would plunge us back into the darkness and intolerance from which we so recently came. Our founding fathers always intended for people to choose the occupation of their choice. They never intended for the "rights" of targets to supersede those of muggers.
The right to mug is just one of the things that makes this country great! We can not stand idly by while our freedoms are eroded. We must come out of the alleys and onto the streets and proclaim our freedom to maim, kill and frighten others to get what we want!
Michael Weston
Please note: The Preceding was a satire of the arguments made for "Freedom of Choice".
"Imagine a country without Chill, where one million people a year ( the number of people who rob ) would have to consider whether they may end up charged with a crime?"
On January 22 1973, the Supreme Court court ruled in favor of Joe Chill in the famous Chill v. Wayne case, which over turned centuries of discrimination against the profession of mugger.
Before that time, many muggers, finding their career choice illegal, were forced to conduct their business in back alleys; a dangerous proposition.
Many died of complications in botched operations. Business grew slow as most people began avoiding the alleys. And yet for fear of prosecution ( or more accurately persecution)they dared not enter the target rich environment of the main streets.
On that day, men, women and children rejoiced! No longer would one's right to mug be violated! No longer would the police chase someone for knocking down a old woman and stealing her purse! No longer would people be fired from their job should their boss find out that they had stabbed a man in the park and took his shoes!
But some people still see this as a "evil". They call it sin. This minority has much power, and wishes to force it's own out-dated religious beliefs on the rest of us. Using words such as "victim" and "innocent" in their rhetoric, they seek nothing less then the complete over turning of "Chill vs Wayne! They would plunge us back into the darkness and intolerance from which we so recently came. Our founding fathers always intended for people to choose the occupation of their choice. They never intended for the "rights" of targets to supersede those of muggers.
The right to mug is just one of the things that makes this country great! We can not stand idly by while our freedoms are eroded. We must come out of the alleys and onto the streets and proclaim our freedom to maim, kill and frighten others to get what we want!
Michael Weston
Please note: The Preceding was a satire of the arguments made for "Freedom of Choice".
My Job
So I wanted to tell you a bit about my new job. I'll start with a FAQ ( because it will be funner to right and hopefully, to read.
Q: Where do you work?
A: Downtown Spokane.
Q: Where Downtown?
A: Downtown Spokane.
Q: Huh?
A: OK, Downtown Spokane Partnership.
Q: What do you do there?
A: I am part of the Clean Team. We pick up litter, empty trash bins, remove graffiti and fight crime.
Q: Are you guys from Geiger ( correctional facility)?
A: No. We work for the City*
Q: What happened to the people from Geiger?
A: They kept running off.
Q: Has anyone ever told you look like Harry Potter?
A: Yes.
Q: What hours do you work?
A: 11:30 to 5:30
Q: What days?
A: Mon-Friday
Q: Are you hiring?
A: Not at the moment, but we may be real soon.
Q: How do you like it?
A: It's great! I get to work outside, get exercise, breath fresh air (except when I'm by smokers) and most of all, do something that matters and makes the City a better place!
Q: What are the downsides?
A: Occasional cigarette smoke, my co-workers swear a lot, I'm sore after work.
This was my first day of going straight to our Secret Hideout (AKA, The basement of Aunties Bookstore). Yesterday I went to the Offices first to go over the paper work. Anyway, you never know exactly what you should expect when you arrive at work for the first time but for me it sure as heck wasn't Christian Slater camped out in the Parking Lot! OK, by camped I mean he was in his trailer along with a film crew, but still! I didn't meet Christian Slater ( which is probably good since I hear he bites people ), but a couple of the other co-workers did. They got away bite free.
Then I went downstairs and changed (our changing room is a bank vault) and went to work.
A few of the streets were blocked off, because they where filming chase scenes, so we didn't have to clean those streets (Yay!).
*While we do work for the city, we don't work directly for it. Downtown Spokane partnership is a Non-Profit organization.
Q: Where do you work?
A: Downtown Spokane.
Q: Where Downtown?
A: Downtown Spokane.
Q: Huh?
A: OK, Downtown Spokane Partnership.
Q: What do you do there?
A: I am part of the Clean Team. We pick up litter, empty trash bins, remove graffiti and fight crime.
Q: Are you guys from Geiger ( correctional facility)?
A: No. We work for the City*
Q: What happened to the people from Geiger?
A: They kept running off.
Q: Has anyone ever told you look like Harry Potter?
A: Yes.
Q: What hours do you work?
A: 11:30 to 5:30
Q: What days?
A: Mon-Friday
Q: Are you hiring?
A: Not at the moment, but we may be real soon.
Q: How do you like it?
A: It's great! I get to work outside, get exercise, breath fresh air (except when I'm by smokers) and most of all, do something that matters and makes the City a better place!
Q: What are the downsides?
A: Occasional cigarette smoke, my co-workers swear a lot, I'm sore after work.
This was my first day of going straight to our Secret Hideout (AKA, The basement of Aunties Bookstore). Yesterday I went to the Offices first to go over the paper work. Anyway, you never know exactly what you should expect when you arrive at work for the first time but for me it sure as heck wasn't Christian Slater camped out in the Parking Lot! OK, by camped I mean he was in his trailer along with a film crew, but still! I didn't meet Christian Slater ( which is probably good since I hear he bites people ), but a couple of the other co-workers did. They got away bite free.
Then I went downstairs and changed (our changing room is a bank vault) and went to work.
A few of the streets were blocked off, because they where filming chase scenes, so we didn't have to clean those streets (Yay!).
*While we do work for the city, we don't work directly for it. Downtown Spokane partnership is a Non-Profit organization.
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