Just a thought.

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

DeRosa...

In 2020, DeRosa took home $208,785. As governor of New York, from the same source, Andrew Cuomo took home $225,000 in 2020 – marginally more than DeRosa.

They were the two highest earners in the executive department that year. Jill DesRosiers, Cuomo’s chief of staff, made $200,991.

DeRosa entered the position from which she has just resigned when she was just 34 – the youngest person to occupy the position in New York, and the only woman to do so. It is the most powerful unelected position in state government.
As per GovSalaries, the average annual wage among all employees of the department is between $60,000 and $70,000.

What was DeRosa's role in the various issues. Just a thought.

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Sunday, August 8, 2021

Break-Down...

Whether a person is dealing with an obsession with drugs, alcohol, money, sex or food, the nature of this obsession is the same. The greed for more (in quantity, frequency and intensity) escalates as the person breaks down more and more boundaries that have previously defined what kept him safe.

These boundaries may relate to the physical body, social circle, our moral codes (what behaviors we will and won’t accept from ourselves), and our dignity (what we will and won’t tolerate from others).

Deep in the throes of addiction, gripped by obsession, we cross that line again and again, pushing our boundaries further and further away from us.

These internal boundaries, which once prevented us from hurting ourselves and others, now can no longer keep our behaviors in check. We’ve freed ourselves from our own protection and left the door wide open for careless indulgence in our drug, and we descend madder and madder into a tight, small hole of existence where the only thing that keeps us going is more drugs, even when it’s become obvious that we are destroying ourselves by continuing in that cycle. Our mind directs this breaking-down of our boundaries, it has a life of its own and we can’t do anything to stop it from running our lives. Just a thought.