Really? The Stimulus Package? I get to maybe have a tax break? The one that might equal to one months mortgage payment over a period of twelve months? Really? That will help me and mine soooo much.

I'm just saying, I'd rather have another rebate check so I can buy more Asian electronics to help stimulate their economy. Why? Because fat, lazy Americans making 40K on that assembly line sticking stickers make crap ass products. I'm not unpatriotic. I love my country, but I can see most of her faults. Unions being number one on my list, currently. I try to only buy American cars but that's usually where I have to draw the line. I'd be more careful about buying American products if I knew they'd work! Lord, my daddy is rolling over in his grave.

All I'm saying is, there better be some money in there for Vet Affairs and Small Business Owners. Two things that are very near and dear to my heart.

Americans did this to themselves. We had money, so we went out and spent it on things we shouldn't have. People are idiots. Spend, spend, spend. Oh, wait, you mean I can't really afford that 300k house on 60k a year? But that one guy said...yeah and when you signed the papers and walked out, they toasted your stupidity with a bottle of Cristal. Then threw that mortgage out the window, into the market and we all pay the price. Nice work. Hope you enjoy getting bailed out while folks like me, who don't enjoy drowning in debt, get nothing. Well, unless I'm 60 days behind...then they are willing to negotiate.

And car companies? Oh, don't get me started with the sticking of the stickers. That will just send me right over the edge. Fire the UNION. Stop selling a 12k car for 21k, then we can talk about bailing your sorry butts out.

And the airline industry. PLEASE. Fire the UNION.

And the bonuses are just happy days for me. How can we sit back and grit our teeth when they get their million dollar bonuses? We should've never expected anything less. They've been doing it for years, why stop now.

This should be a huge wake up call for all of us. But have we learned anything? Heck no. As soon as gas prices dropped, idiots went out and started buying trucks and SUV's again. Because surely, gas won't go up again. Can't be. Idiots. When the housing market recovers, we'll go out and buy another house we can't afford. My daddy, God rest his soul, taught me from the cradle about keeping up with the Joneses. And, God help me, I like nice stuff as much as everyone else. Especially really expensive shoes - but you know what? I wait until they come out on sale for 75% off and wear them to hell and back.

Did I mention Milk pisses me off? More expensive than gas at one point, might still be. I refuse to look at the price when I pick up a gallon. If I didn't appreciate the homogenizing process so much, I'd buy a cow and milk her for fun. But that's just gross. This comes from growing up in Kentucky where we actually had real, nasty, non-processed milk delivered to our house. In fact, I'm calling my brother right now to see if he remembers the taste of the nasty shit.

See, I'm already off topic. Basically, I hate politics and if I cared more about changing the country, I'd vote. But I can't vote because I hate them all. All crooks trying to keep a paycheck (*snicker* aren't we all?). I can't save my soul by endorsing theirs. Give me some fresh new faces, someone under the age of forty. Someone struggling to make ends meet that might honestly be looking out for the good of my community, then yeah, maybe I could vote. But only for one term, because as soon as he or she gets involved in the bedlam...they'd be crooked too.

And as far as me running for office? I like my happy pills too much. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't want someone high on life, because of a chemical alteration, running anything that resembles a country.

Wow, so I feel better. I'm hoping for that change we've been promised. But it's going to take more than four or eight years to undo what has been sixteen years in the making. That's a lot of time for all of us to just get stupider.

Shout out to Jack. He's been MIA in this blog for a couple of posts, not to mention the face of the earth...Superman? Where are you? One day he'll cave, 'cause I'm not texting him first....

Staying high and mighty on her tiny soapbox...that's me.