Joanne and I will help prepare Thanksgiving meal boxes tomorrow morning. We are each going to donate three hours of our time to the Thurston County Food Bank. It was fun to help out last year. My job was to open a bag and put one onion inside it then pass it on to the "potato" people.
I remember thinking that I need to get more involved after helping last year. I didn't stay focused on my commitment to help out more and now here it is a year later. There is so much good that we could all do either with a little bit of time or a little bit of money.
The news reported that the budget for Washington State is looking worse than projected. We could just add a one time tax for every Washingtonian to make up for the shortage. It's not as bad as it seems, really. To fix the $1.2 billion shortage, each Washingtonian throws in $184.62. A family of four would need to pony up $738.48
$5,700,000,000 / $6,500,000 = $876.92 per Washingtonian. The would do for the 2011 - 2013.
You heard it hear first friends!
Helping out at the Thurston County Food Bank was a lot of fun today!
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