San Joaquin Stimulus Package
Well we did our part to help the ailing California economy.
We gave San Joaquin county the equivalent of two Taylor T-5′s or two Gibson Les Paul’s (or one of each) yesterday.
I already mentioned the supplemental tax fraud they have here but I’m happy to do my part and help the local economy.
The clerk, who must get yelled at a lot, (and for the record I was as pleasant as can be – as pleasant as if I was receiving the aforementioned guitars) informed me that we should get 1 thousand dollars back (penalties, interest, blah, blah from notice going to the wrong house) but it would take about three weeks to get the money back that I was giving them.
Hmm . . . shall we launch a poll of public opinion to see if we actually get the money back?
Hey, if someone in government tells you something, you can take it to the bank!
Did you record the conversation? Give me 5000 bucks and I’ll be glad to give you 1000 back. In 3 weeks, give or take.
Are you sure you weren’t dealing with the “Dept. of Peter and Paul.”
You will get it back. It’s just that anything governmental takes its own sweet time. From having worked for the Federal government, I’m well familiar with this. I sent a letter dated 1/29 to Office of Personnel Management instructing them to drop some life insurance I was carrying. Since they continue to hold out the premiums, I called this week (last week of March) to see if they received the letter and what’s up. (I should have known.) Yes, they show it as “received” on March 2nd, and it will take 30-60 days from THAT date to process it!! But eventually it will be done.
In our fair city right now, we are dealing with re-appraisals! It’s a joke, but no many people are laughing!!