The Stimulus Package passed

This week has been cold, 20s and 30s and mostly sunny and
mostly dry. We've had a trace or two of snow this week, but
not enough to do much in the way of improving the water
situation. We have enough water, but not extravagant
amounts.

I volunteer at Jared's office on Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons. My duties this week were pretty minimal;
I answered the phone, keyed in some data and updated
their phone book of contacts with all the state offices.

On Friday we went to Ochs' for lunch and had a lovely lunch
and talked through the afternoon. We got home about 4 PM.
We decided to wait until 8 PM and have popcorn and watch
TV and skip supper. We watch so little TV that the programs
we record keep piling up.

Saturday we went to the Lafayette Library for a Forum on
health care presented by the Progressive Democrats of America
and where Jared was the primary speaker. A couple of health
providers spoke before Jared and Jared covered health care
briefly, but went into more detail of the Stimulus package
which has just been passed. It is a $789 billion package
with provisions to give everyone some sort of tax break and
huge spending amounts to provide jobs. Sadly 98% of the
jobs being created tend to be male-oriented jobs,
construction, road-building, bridge-building,
school-building and remodels. Very little in there for all
the single moms trying to raise their families with no
support from the dads!

One thing that amazed us was the library itself. We both
remember Lafayette as a small, rural town. It has grown
in size and is no longer a poor town. There are many,
many mansions in the town. The library is quite magnificent
and was very busy.