Well you bring up a talking point for the Romney campaign.
Let this gun control thing take a strong run for it and the Romney people, including the Beltway pubs just for oncit, should say what you said....about those bombs which were NOT guns.
And if they ever need a doppleganger for Feinstein on Sattidy Night Live, I shall volunteer.
So for 15 years I worked for Western Electric.
If y’all don’t know of it, used to be the manufacturing arm of AT&T. We made all the wires and cables for telephones.
Worked there 15 years....walked out on the anniversary of my 15th year, took the college degree they paid for that I earned through almost as many years of night school. Hung in there so I could get the vested pension, yes even as a young lass I was very responsible. Did payroll, quality control, even wrote newsletters and for the company magazine. In those days, for both me and Diane Feinstein had men and they were like a bus, missed one, another one came along.
After leaving my pension’s been all over the place and I’m biting my fingernails. Now it’s owned by Alcatel, formerly Lucent Technologies, y’all following? Alcatel is owned now by France and I’m eligible for a pension when I’m 65, still a couple years away.
I’m a wreck cause who knows, Obama might take over all pensions owned by foreign gubmints for Americans or some such. Who knows why. I suspect it’s a lot of money as AT&T was, at least then, the largest company in the world. Obamer does anything he wants, not that the Republicans stop him.
I get a letter yesterday. I am eligible for a one time lump sum distribution for my pension at Alcatel, formerly Lucent Technologies, formerly Western Electric.
The value of my pension as of 10/1/12, the letter informs, is $41,787.43!
Do I want the lump sum?
Hell yeah I want the lump sum, I want that money in my hot little hands ASAP.
I will roll it over into an IRA (if I don’t every penny of the distribution is taxable). I won’t get a monthly pension payment but I’d already written that off for fear of this company moving all the hell over the world.
So I’m in a good mood today. Cause husband and I have, wisely, over the years, invested in IRA’s and 401K’s and we have some money, this without the gubmint having a damn thing to do with it.
So