Susan lives in the house right behind us. There's no alley, so we share a back fence that separates our yards. She's lived there since we moved to this house, almost twenty years ago. In the time we've been neighbors Susan has had some big changes in her life. She got a divorce some time ago just as her two kids were in their late teens. Both kids (a boy and a girl) are grown up now and living on their own. Susan's daughter had a baby last December, making her a pretty happy grandma. Susan worked for a local rural Fire District. She managed the office and conducted the business of the Fire District. Last January Susan lost her job after being there for over twenty years.
Susan goes to the same gym we do, and we talk with her through the back fence, so we've kept up with her situation over the last few months. Last week she and I had a conversation through the fence that couldn't be more timely, given some of the items in the news that week. Susan has been out of work for over six months now. I asked how things were going for her and she nearly cried as she was explaining how hard this period of time has been for her. She is the perfect example of all the unemployment woes we've heard about since this terrible recession began four years ago. Susan said she's has sent out over a hundred resume's and applications and hasn't even had a single call for an interview. She doesn't understand why nothing is happening. She talked about the frustration of knowing she has skills, and how she was successful for so many years in her last job-yet she is getting no response. She began to explain how she has fallen into depression from time to time because she's starting to feel the hopelessness. Then she began to categorize herself into the one of the hardest hit demographics of this dismal unemployment picture. Susan is over the age of 50, and has now become one of the long-term unemployed. And as I tried to be empathetic and encouraging- I knew she was right. She is the perfect picture of a long-time, valued employee who is out of work now, and in a group that has very few prospects.
This conversation took place in the same week The President was crucified by Republicans for saying "the private sector is doing fine." That comment sent Mr. Romney into hyper-drive claiming that the President is just "out of touch". Imagine that- Mr. Romney calling anybody out of touch. I believe the President was didn't state his point very artfully. But, we all know what he meant. The private sector has been steadily adding jobs while the public sector has been losing jobs- so the net job gain doesn't look very good. Yet to counter the President, Mr. Romney went right out and said we don't need more public sectors jobs.This brings me back to my neighbor Susan. Her job was a public sector job. She worked for a Fire District. But if you'll note where the public sector has been so damaged and under attack, you'll quickly see it's the Republican controlled states are where the most damage has been done to the public sector. Teachers, police, and firefighters are the groups under attack and vilified.
Somehow the basic economics of this situation can get lost in the political (and mostly inaccurate) rhetoric being thrown around. I think most of us are expected to look at this economic crisis and just assume that cutting everything our taxes pay for is the automatic solution. That's the Republican solution. The fact is that massive cuts in the public sector have the opposite effect. Take Susan again; she can no longer be the kind of consumer she once was. She wasn't stashing her income in a Swiss bank account (like a certain Presidential wannabe). Her (tax supported) wages got spent in stores, in restaurants, in movie theatres, in home improvement centers and on all the other consumer goods that actually drive this economy. Some economists estimate that government expenditures turn over three times in our economy. When there are enough Susan(s) without a job the local store lays off clerks, the restaurants get rid of a chef and a waiter and a hostess. The movie theater may lay off a worker, or the golf course and the Home Depot lets some staff go. Then those people stop being consumers too. The cycle only gets worse. Not only is Susan not spending wages- she is now taking government benefits instead of paying taxes.The Republicans need to realize that Susan isn't our enemy- that the people who teach our kids, and protect us and our property aren't the bad guys. The public sector provides services we need and they are a vital part of our economy. They are more valuable to our economic health as employed people, than they are as some politician's trophy on the wall- in spite of the fact that it takes tax dollars to pay for public sector employees.
I remember being in my high school history class and having Mr. Volz discuss how automation was effecting the economy (circa 1970). He was explaining that when machines replace people, those machines don't stop at the store on the way home, or go out for a beer on the weekends, or buy houses. He made the point very effectively that our economy is driven by spending wages. I think the analogy holds true today. But instead of automation- it is the war on the public sector employee that threatens our economy. We've been convinced since the time of Reagan that everything government does is bad and a waste of tax dollars. We've been convinced that the remedy is to always cut taxes and reduce the evil of government at every opportunity. We've elected people to govern us who don't even like government- and because they hate government, they run it so poorly that they are the self-fulfilling prophets of bad government. They generally leave a mess behind then turn around and say: "I told you so." That's kind of where we're at now. The economic truth of our time is that economic growth doesn't come from giving the rich more money, hoping their crumbs will fall off the table to the rest of us (i.e. trickle down from "job creators"). It comes from strong broad-based consumption of goods and services by a strong middle class. Both private and public sector jobs are needed to sustain growth.
The pundits all say that the coming election will hinge on how the unemployment rates are looking in October and November. They say people will just look around and cast their vote on how the economy feels at that time. If the unemployment rate is the same or higher than now, President Obama loses. But we need to look deeper and ask why things are the way they are. I won't just look at the number on the front page- I'll look over my back fence too. If I see that my neighbor Susan is still the victim of short sighted economic theories that have never worked, because the public sector has been so unfairly vilified- then I will vote accordingly, and it won't be for Mr. Romney. I hoping every voter will look a little deeper and look across your back fence to see the real picture for people you know and see everyday. Some of them are probably public sector employees or folks who do business with the public sector. They are a vital part of the economy too. Let's not throw them under the bus because it is easy for politicians to cast blame their way.
Thanks for looking in.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Saying Goodbye
When a new opportunity presents itself: a chance to move, grow, or accept new challenges, it is often accompanied by the loss of something it will replace. That's what is happening with me right now. As I look forward to a new chapter in my life, I'm faced with the task of saying goodbye to long time activities, habits and most of all, goodbye to daily contact with dear friends. This has caused me to reflect on the people and places I'm saying goodbye to now, and how others in my life are saying their goodbyes too. The change for me is the start of a new job. This week I'll begin employment with Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest in a management position. I don't change jobs very often. The job I'm leaving is one I've had for almost 15 years. Before that, I was employed with the same state agency for nearly 20 years. So now at the age of 58 I'm starting with a new employer and a whole new set of challenges. I feel fortunate that at my age, and in this economy, an opportunity has presented itself. Only a short while ago I would not have thought this would be happening. In that sense I'm grateful that such things are still possible and that I have the chance to try something new and to keep learning. However I also have to face the goodbyes.The following are my goodbyes- some welcomed- others not.
Most of my career has been spent in the Child Welfare arena of social work. Saying goodbye to Child Welfare is OK with me. The years with Child Protective Services were both difficult and rewarding. I vowed never to take the work home. I think that was the right policy. I didn't want to be one of those social workers who lived it 24 hours a day, and eventually ended up taking on the burden of abused children so personally it ruined their lives or their personalities. Having a good family to return to each day was a huge advantage too. The last15 years in this field have been from another vantage point (private agency work). I've been with a private agency that works very differently with families in the system. We had a very different (and I dare say, better) perspective on serving people. I worked with some of the best people in the business. I learned that we actually know how to handle child welfare cases much more effectively than the old CPS way. Our little agency had great successes with chronically troubled families. The problem with reforming the system and implementing what we know will work, is the entrenched bureaucrats who control the machinery. Those who manage this system at the State level are so busy protecting their turf and attending to the machinery, that they've forgotten what their job is, making them blind to new ways and new ideas. So I say goodbye to Child Welfare feeling some relief, along with a sense of gratitude to those I met along the way. Oddly enough, I'm most grateful to the families I worked with. In spite of the personal demons in their lives I discovered almost all parents love their children- but so many have suffered the indignity of poverty, deprivation, and trauma in their own childhoods. Therefore they come into a biased system as crippled souls who are powerless to control their own lives or break the cycles that put them there in the first place.
I'm saying goodbye to some of my dearest friends as a result of this change. I won't lose them as friends- but I won't have the pleasure of sharing my days with them as I have for so many years now. Most of us work with people we get along with, and we put in our days together just because "we work together". We tend to spend more waking hours with our colleagues at work than with our family members. A few of my colleagues and co-workers became great friends too. It might have something to do with the kind of work we do that creates a stronger bond- Child Welfare can be a pretty unpleasant place, seeing the abuse and hearing the heartbreaking stories. To do it, and not go nuts, requires people around you that you can trust, and share the (sometimes) twisted humor needed to maintain one's sanity and humanity. However, in this case it is more than that. These are people who would be special in any setting. They are truly great friends and great people, and saying goodbye to my daily time with them is a difficult goodbye for me.
I'm also saying goodbye to a comfortable routine. At my age a predictable routine can be a good thing, and I honestly weighed that item very carefully before deciding to make this change. I was well established where I was. I had a great deal of freedom and autonomy that I won't have in my new position. But I also recognized that I want to stay vital-continue to learn new things and feel the excitement of new challenges. Truthfully, I was getting a bit complacent and that can't be healthy. Even though it may be a bit uncomfortable at first, I'm really looking forward to a brand new experience. I guess I'm not ready to stop trying something new just yet.
As it happened, I experienced these bitter-sweet goodbyes during the same week that my son-in-law and our family experienced a far more profound and permanent goodbye. Lynn, my son-in-law's mom passed away this week. I wrote about her illness last October in an essay called "Two Illnesses". At that time she had been in the hospital and was told she was approaching the end of her life due to chronic respiratory illness. Even though the course of her illness had its ups and downs the last seven months, the eventual conclusion was never really in doubt. As we were talking with our son-in-law the night his mother died, he reminded us that he has been saying goodbye for a long time now. He was very much at peace with this goodbye because his grieving (and letting go) was an on-going process that was now coming to an end. In truth, on the night she died I detected a peacefulness in my son-in-law I not seen before. Having gone through long protracted illnesses with my parents I could certainly understand the relief and peace of that last goodbye. There is gladness that the suffering of a loved one has finally ended, as well as the realization that normalcy will soon return.
The last week was all about goodbyes. Coming to grips with the difficult ones, and graciously embracing the welcomed ones helps us be open to the new aspects of life that surely will follow. The nice thing is that next week will be all about- hello. I'll be starting a new job. I'll be meeting many new people. I'll be introduced to new things and new places. My son-in-law and his family will begin next week with a new sense of peace in their lives, and they will be able to fondly remember a lost loved one for the great moments they shared over the years, rather than to the struggles of the last months. The lesson for me is this: as difficult as goodbye can be- it almost always holds the promise of something new; and that's what keeps us moving forward through life.
Thanks for looking in.
Most of my career has been spent in the Child Welfare arena of social work. Saying goodbye to Child Welfare is OK with me. The years with Child Protective Services were both difficult and rewarding. I vowed never to take the work home. I think that was the right policy. I didn't want to be one of those social workers who lived it 24 hours a day, and eventually ended up taking on the burden of abused children so personally it ruined their lives or their personalities. Having a good family to return to each day was a huge advantage too. The last15 years in this field have been from another vantage point (private agency work). I've been with a private agency that works very differently with families in the system. We had a very different (and I dare say, better) perspective on serving people. I worked with some of the best people in the business. I learned that we actually know how to handle child welfare cases much more effectively than the old CPS way. Our little agency had great successes with chronically troubled families. The problem with reforming the system and implementing what we know will work, is the entrenched bureaucrats who control the machinery. Those who manage this system at the State level are so busy protecting their turf and attending to the machinery, that they've forgotten what their job is, making them blind to new ways and new ideas. So I say goodbye to Child Welfare feeling some relief, along with a sense of gratitude to those I met along the way. Oddly enough, I'm most grateful to the families I worked with. In spite of the personal demons in their lives I discovered almost all parents love their children- but so many have suffered the indignity of poverty, deprivation, and trauma in their own childhoods. Therefore they come into a biased system as crippled souls who are powerless to control their own lives or break the cycles that put them there in the first place.
I'm saying goodbye to some of my dearest friends as a result of this change. I won't lose them as friends- but I won't have the pleasure of sharing my days with them as I have for so many years now. Most of us work with people we get along with, and we put in our days together just because "we work together". We tend to spend more waking hours with our colleagues at work than with our family members. A few of my colleagues and co-workers became great friends too. It might have something to do with the kind of work we do that creates a stronger bond- Child Welfare can be a pretty unpleasant place, seeing the abuse and hearing the heartbreaking stories. To do it, and not go nuts, requires people around you that you can trust, and share the (sometimes) twisted humor needed to maintain one's sanity and humanity. However, in this case it is more than that. These are people who would be special in any setting. They are truly great friends and great people, and saying goodbye to my daily time with them is a difficult goodbye for me.
I'm also saying goodbye to a comfortable routine. At my age a predictable routine can be a good thing, and I honestly weighed that item very carefully before deciding to make this change. I was well established where I was. I had a great deal of freedom and autonomy that I won't have in my new position. But I also recognized that I want to stay vital-continue to learn new things and feel the excitement of new challenges. Truthfully, I was getting a bit complacent and that can't be healthy. Even though it may be a bit uncomfortable at first, I'm really looking forward to a brand new experience. I guess I'm not ready to stop trying something new just yet.
As it happened, I experienced these bitter-sweet goodbyes during the same week that my son-in-law and our family experienced a far more profound and permanent goodbye. Lynn, my son-in-law's mom passed away this week. I wrote about her illness last October in an essay called "Two Illnesses". At that time she had been in the hospital and was told she was approaching the end of her life due to chronic respiratory illness. Even though the course of her illness had its ups and downs the last seven months, the eventual conclusion was never really in doubt. As we were talking with our son-in-law the night his mother died, he reminded us that he has been saying goodbye for a long time now. He was very much at peace with this goodbye because his grieving (and letting go) was an on-going process that was now coming to an end. In truth, on the night she died I detected a peacefulness in my son-in-law I not seen before. Having gone through long protracted illnesses with my parents I could certainly understand the relief and peace of that last goodbye. There is gladness that the suffering of a loved one has finally ended, as well as the realization that normalcy will soon return.
The last week was all about goodbyes. Coming to grips with the difficult ones, and graciously embracing the welcomed ones helps us be open to the new aspects of life that surely will follow. The nice thing is that next week will be all about- hello. I'll be starting a new job. I'll be meeting many new people. I'll be introduced to new things and new places. My son-in-law and his family will begin next week with a new sense of peace in their lives, and they will be able to fondly remember a lost loved one for the great moments they shared over the years, rather than to the struggles of the last months. The lesson for me is this: as difficult as goodbye can be- it almost always holds the promise of something new; and that's what keeps us moving forward through life.
Thanks for looking in.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Election Predictions
The last five or six months have just been fun, haven't they? We've had the pleasure (and pain) of watching the Republican primary candidates tear into each other, and of course they all tore into President Obama with reckless abandon. I say "reckless" because they haven't been very..... truth-y. We've had our fun and our laughs over the goofs and gaffs as the Republicans came up with the most nut-ball ideas we've heard in decades. Who can forget Trump and his crazy, racist birther talk? Apparently he can't forget it either. Then there was Michele Bachmann and her complete fumbling of U.S. history to suit her ultra-right-wing narrative. Never go on Jeopardy, Michele. Then we got to watch Rick .......uh?...uh?... Perry totally embarrass himself. Next it was Herman Cain and his 9-9-9 plan, and him finding out "What Women Don't Want", followed by the incomparable Newt Gingrich. This man gave us a truck load of laughs from moon colonies, to abolishing child-labor laws. With an ego the size of Georgia he told us it was a foregone conclusion he would win. Oops! (sorry Rick Perry) turns out old Newt and Calista were just out for a good time with donor's money. He's gone, and $4 million in the hole. Finally it was Rick Santorum. Rick is just nuts. College is for snobs- birth control is just wrong- blah-blah-blah. He dropped out when he figured out he couldn't compete in his own state-again. The clown show is finally over and the circus has left town.
So here we are with Mitt Romney just like we knew we would be. The Republicans always settle on the next guy in line. He was there six years ago and he's finally getting his turn. They will fall in line, but they will never fall in love with this guy. Most of the party faithful don't even like him much. Just look at the tepid endorsements he's gotten. Nonetheless he and his super-PACs will have tons of money to throw around. When you think about it, you realize the party ends up with an empty vessel like Mr. Romney because they just don't have anybody else to choose from. The other candidates were totally loony-tunes and there is not one Republican in the House or the Senate who has shown themselves to be a statesman- or a leader. At least now we know it will be Obama vs. Romney in the main event. Here are my early predictions on the election:
-This will be an important (critically important) election. However I predict the general electorate will not be treated like it's a critically important election by the candidates or their surrogates. That is, we the voters, will be fed a boatload of inaccurate nonsense (from both sides) because it fits in a 30 second commercial, while they never really address the fundamental issues facing the country. Selling the candidates will be more important understanding the candidates; and unless we really dig hard for the truth on our own, most of us will go into the voting booth with nothing more than the last political ad in our heads.
-The election process will be drowning in money. The Supreme Court's Citizens United case has allowed unlimited funds from just about anywhere (even foreign countries) to flood in on us. All the billionaires who are complaining that they don't want to pay more taxes seem to have plenty of money to throw around on this election. It sure makes you wonder why. (Actually we know why- it is in their financial interest, that's why) There are two problems for us. 1) we have no idea who is behind all the super-PAC donations and what they expect to gain, and 2) we will be inundated with negative advertising to the extent we may just get sick of it and spurn the whole process out of disgust. One thing is for sure- we will see this flood of super-PAC spending on commercials unlike anything we've ever seen before. My hope is that it will awaken common sense again so the Congress, along with all of us, will demand a change from the non-sense wrought on us from Citizens United.
-A lot of voters may experience a case of mass amnesia. We will be asked to make judgments on the President's past 3 1/2 years in office, and the Republicans will do anything to have us forget the shape our country was in when the President took office. And we may just oblige them by not remembering what was left to clean up when the President took office. If we don't remember how close we were to total collapse, we won't be able to fairly judge what President Obama has accomplished. I heard a commentator use the analogy that President Obama's challenge was like having a new Captain take over the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. The more I learn about the economic crisis that hit us while President Bush was in office, the more I appreciate what President Obama did to keep us from going over the edge into a full-blown depression. It was deeper and more frightening than most of us realize, which is why it is taking so long to recover from it. But we'll be asked to forget all that, and blame this slow recovery entirely on the President. We'll also be asked to have amnesia about the Bush policies that caused the melt down - because Mr. Romney is proposing more of that old Bush magic; lower taxes for the wealthy- cuts to programs for the middle class and the poor- no spending on infra-structure- no regulation of the financial industry- increased spending on the military. That is the same recipe that took us from a surplus federal budget to huge deficits in one year under the Bush plan (and that before 9-11-01). But please, just forget all that- and blame the new guy for not digging us out of their mess faster. Oh, by the way you should also forget that Republicans in Congress have obstructed every effort the President has made since he took office.
-This election will be remembered (and written about in the history books) for the efforts to suppress and hinder voting. After the election of Barack Obama the opposition systematically set out to eliminate as many voters as possible from the demographic that voted for President Obama in 2008. We have seen State after State (where Republicans control the State Legislatures) pass legislation to suppress voting. They have required ID's that were never required before- they have limited early voting- they have purged voter rolls using inaccurate data bases- they have eliminated voting for out-of state student voters. All of these tactics specifically target traditional Democratic voters- and this is no coincidence! They claim the purpose is to prevent voter fraud, but they can't give a single example of voter fraud remotely influencing an election. If these efforts are allowed to succeed, history will record that these laws set back democracy in our country. America has always stood for the expansion of democracy and citizen rights. The trend to suppress voting will prove to be a shameful chapter in our history, one we will regret if these measures go forward.
Those are my predictions- except who I think will actually win. I know who I want to win- and who I'll vote for, but these are all rather sad predictions about the nature of the election itself. This promises to be a very close and, by all accounts, very ugly election. Don't be surprised to see the subtle and not-so-subtle racism again. The influence of unfettered amounts of money will certainly be a huge factor along with the issue of how voting is done in the various States. No matter who wins I'm hoping for a resurgence of the People's will in how our government functions, based on the horrible lessons I think we are about to learn. It seems that within the last generation our precious democracy has literally been taken over by lobbyists and the big-money interests who own them. It can only get worse under the current set of rules. If we learn anything from this election- I hope we learn that our government exists for us, the ordinary folk- not the elites who have taken us to this sorry state of affairs-and that we have to reassert ourselves back into our system of government
Thanks for looking in.
So here we are with Mitt Romney just like we knew we would be. The Republicans always settle on the next guy in line. He was there six years ago and he's finally getting his turn. They will fall in line, but they will never fall in love with this guy. Most of the party faithful don't even like him much. Just look at the tepid endorsements he's gotten. Nonetheless he and his super-PACs will have tons of money to throw around. When you think about it, you realize the party ends up with an empty vessel like Mr. Romney because they just don't have anybody else to choose from. The other candidates were totally loony-tunes and there is not one Republican in the House or the Senate who has shown themselves to be a statesman- or a leader. At least now we know it will be Obama vs. Romney in the main event. Here are my early predictions on the election:
-This will be an important (critically important) election. However I predict the general electorate will not be treated like it's a critically important election by the candidates or their surrogates. That is, we the voters, will be fed a boatload of inaccurate nonsense (from both sides) because it fits in a 30 second commercial, while they never really address the fundamental issues facing the country. Selling the candidates will be more important understanding the candidates; and unless we really dig hard for the truth on our own, most of us will go into the voting booth with nothing more than the last political ad in our heads.
-The election process will be drowning in money. The Supreme Court's Citizens United case has allowed unlimited funds from just about anywhere (even foreign countries) to flood in on us. All the billionaires who are complaining that they don't want to pay more taxes seem to have plenty of money to throw around on this election. It sure makes you wonder why. (Actually we know why- it is in their financial interest, that's why) There are two problems for us. 1) we have no idea who is behind all the super-PAC donations and what they expect to gain, and 2) we will be inundated with negative advertising to the extent we may just get sick of it and spurn the whole process out of disgust. One thing is for sure- we will see this flood of super-PAC spending on commercials unlike anything we've ever seen before. My hope is that it will awaken common sense again so the Congress, along with all of us, will demand a change from the non-sense wrought on us from Citizens United.
-A lot of voters may experience a case of mass amnesia. We will be asked to make judgments on the President's past 3 1/2 years in office, and the Republicans will do anything to have us forget the shape our country was in when the President took office. And we may just oblige them by not remembering what was left to clean up when the President took office. If we don't remember how close we were to total collapse, we won't be able to fairly judge what President Obama has accomplished. I heard a commentator use the analogy that President Obama's challenge was like having a new Captain take over the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. The more I learn about the economic crisis that hit us while President Bush was in office, the more I appreciate what President Obama did to keep us from going over the edge into a full-blown depression. It was deeper and more frightening than most of us realize, which is why it is taking so long to recover from it. But we'll be asked to forget all that, and blame this slow recovery entirely on the President. We'll also be asked to have amnesia about the Bush policies that caused the melt down - because Mr. Romney is proposing more of that old Bush magic; lower taxes for the wealthy- cuts to programs for the middle class and the poor- no spending on infra-structure- no regulation of the financial industry- increased spending on the military. That is the same recipe that took us from a surplus federal budget to huge deficits in one year under the Bush plan (and that before 9-11-01). But please, just forget all that- and blame the new guy for not digging us out of their mess faster. Oh, by the way you should also forget that Republicans in Congress have obstructed every effort the President has made since he took office.
-This election will be remembered (and written about in the history books) for the efforts to suppress and hinder voting. After the election of Barack Obama the opposition systematically set out to eliminate as many voters as possible from the demographic that voted for President Obama in 2008. We have seen State after State (where Republicans control the State Legislatures) pass legislation to suppress voting. They have required ID's that were never required before- they have limited early voting- they have purged voter rolls using inaccurate data bases- they have eliminated voting for out-of state student voters. All of these tactics specifically target traditional Democratic voters- and this is no coincidence! They claim the purpose is to prevent voter fraud, but they can't give a single example of voter fraud remotely influencing an election. If these efforts are allowed to succeed, history will record that these laws set back democracy in our country. America has always stood for the expansion of democracy and citizen rights. The trend to suppress voting will prove to be a shameful chapter in our history, one we will regret if these measures go forward.
Those are my predictions- except who I think will actually win. I know who I want to win- and who I'll vote for, but these are all rather sad predictions about the nature of the election itself. This promises to be a very close and, by all accounts, very ugly election. Don't be surprised to see the subtle and not-so-subtle racism again. The influence of unfettered amounts of money will certainly be a huge factor along with the issue of how voting is done in the various States. No matter who wins I'm hoping for a resurgence of the People's will in how our government functions, based on the horrible lessons I think we are about to learn. It seems that within the last generation our precious democracy has literally been taken over by lobbyists and the big-money interests who own them. It can only get worse under the current set of rules. If we learn anything from this election- I hope we learn that our government exists for us, the ordinary folk- not the elites who have taken us to this sorry state of affairs-and that we have to reassert ourselves back into our system of government
Thanks for looking in.
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