I’m sick of myself.
Seriously.
How much whining can one woman do?
A lot, it turns out. Y’all are lucky I didn’t have this here blog when The Poo was born. Gak, what a bore that would have been:
“Oh, woe is me, my baby sleeps through the night, but she wakes up at 6 AM! YES, 6 AM!!”
Oy, life was so easy then. Going from one to two is, like, totally kicking my ASS, people, and unfortunately you are going to have to suffer the transition along with me, if you keep coming here.
You can’t say I didn’t warn you.
Today I’m not focused on me, though. I’m too pissed off. Pissed off that so many of my friends are losing their jobs, and are in danger of losing their homes.
Pissed off that their kids are eating food bought with government assistance, while they look for jobs they can’t get. These are talented, qualified, educated, thoughtful human beings whose lives are being—let’s be frank—TOTALLY FUCKED WITH by our TOTALLY FUCKED UP FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS and the TOTALLY FUCKED UP GOVERNMENT.
I, myself, am just a hair’s breadth away from financial disaster. If my husband doesn’t get a job for the fall, we have no guaranteed income and no health insurance. As it is, right now we rely on the generosity of others whose financial stability relies on the market conditions.
Which, if you haven’t noticed, are TOTALLY FUCKED UP.
Are you sensing a theme?
I’m pissed off. And I’m afraid. And I’m sad. Why are these people, these stupid, stupid people, who doled out unrealistic mortgages to people who couldn’t, in a million years, make the payments without their jobs, getting bailed out?
Where the hell is MY bail out?
As usual, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That should be out new national slogan.
Only now, the middle is getting poorer, too.
Thank you, Mister Bush, for helping to sink ALL the boats.
So enough about me. Go visit Jennifer and Christina and Jen and Deb, who are all just like me and you: educated, intelligent and hard-working.
They are struggling right now. So lend your ears, and then take their voices into the voting booth with you.
The polls are too close for comfort.
Please, I’m begging you.
Vote.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Hear, hear! I lost my job in January and I thought I was lucky that I didn’t own a home. I thought, “What a relief that we are just renters and don’t have to worry about that as well.”
Ha.
Now, thanks to this mess, I’m left holding the bag for everyone else. The government came in too late and is going to charge all those stupid effed-up mortgages to the taxpayers. I can’t buy my own house now but I’m going to have to pay for someone else’s.
I’m a little mad, too.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
That sounds like us, yet again. We have been beefing up our resumes any way possible, and now that it’s job fair season at our University, it’s gotten worse. Because the only time we can go is when we’re not in class, and the only time we’re not in class, we have the newborn baby in tow. And there’s no way, for me at least, to leave her with anyone else. And you know what? I got asked to leave the last job fair I went to (ironically, a diversity fair for minorities and women…) because I had the baby with. So, not only am I responsible for trying to find a job in this shi:)y economy, competing against kids my age whose mom’s and dad’s not only pay for everything they want, and will always be there for them, and whose resume’s look awesome because they have TIME to volunteer and travel abroad (because they don’t have to work to pay for school) but I can’t get in there to compete, because they won’t allow me in.
UGH.
And my health insurance coverage ends this month- because according to state estimates, I should be very well healed by now.
And the awesome apartments we live in? The only ones we could find that were affordable? Yeah, they just got sold to a new development company.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Well, I’m not a US citizen, so I can’t vote… but I can pray until my eyeballs fall out that the Republican whatsisface and his annoying homophobic cohort with the pregnant daughter don’t make it into office. I mean, come one… ANYONE but those two…
Good luck America. Seriously.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I hear you. I,too, have to go ont he job market this year, and it ain’t looking pretty. So far, there are only about 14 jobs I can apply for–NATIONALLY. I may, just possible have a nervous breakdown before the year is up.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
It’s all so terrifying. My husband just found apart time job after searching for nearly a year. This whole financial crisis is insane, and I find myself worrying about money every day………..
September 19th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
We watched the news about another financial institution failure and the multi-billion dollar bail out with our jaws on the floor. How does this happen? It’s unbelievable.
As for the 1-2 transition kicking your ass: be kind to yourself. That was the hardest time of my life.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
So with you, sister.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Oh, it’ll all be fine. Sarah Palin will shoot some moose for the unemployed to eat. We’ll be so lucky to have her.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Um, you knew I was being sarcastic, right?
September 19th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Amen sistah friend. This Obama Mama is takin’ it to the polls.
Gotta love Emily R’s comment. That alone is takign me straight to her blog right now.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Thanks for the shout-out. It’s insane that millionaires are screwing around with bad business deals and then getting bailed out while those of us who just want to make enough to live comfortably lose our jobs and insurance and ability to keep a roof over our heads. No one is bailing any of us out.
I really hope Mr. C will find the ideal job soon so you won’t have to worry anymore. And I really hope Obama wins the election so he can turn this country around pronto. We can’t suffer through more bad leadership.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I lost my job in July and it has been hand to mouth ever since. I am kind of fucked.
September 20th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
well said Mrs. Chicken.
There is a lot of soul searching to do for the government and the people who run the economics of this country.
Theres a lot the regular people need to do too. I’m not sure what it is yet, But we as a people need to do some soul searching too. It might be simply standing up for ourselves. What will it take to have people not look at this election via image?
September 20th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
A lot of people I love are starting to feel the pinch. The real pinch. The ‘how the hell did we get here’ pinch.
I will be voting.
I will keep listening, and praying, and hoping for us all because everything I’ve read scares the tuna salad out of me.
September 20th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I agree! I was just thinking yesterday about sending out an e-mail to everyone I know to remind them to VOTE and make sure they’re registered NOW.
September 21st, 2008 at 6:40 am
I am a Dutch citizen, divorced and a psychiatric patient on welfare. I am doing okay. The system is taking care of me and it will all work out. One day I will even have a part time job. My hopes for you are that you get a humane and compassionate president, who thinks about all those people who stand to lose everything and who don’t deserve that. I wish you all the best and a care system that will be a safety net for you all and will not allow you to end up in the streets without a penny to your name. That would be cruel and inhumane.
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
While I agree with all of the commenters here - and agree with you - it’s not like the rest of this world, and the US people too if they admit it, didn’t see this coming.
I’m guessing the big difference is that America hasn’t had to deal with a recession for a very long time - whereas lots of other countries have.
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
So many people are in this sinking boat. I am one of those as well seeing how my hubby lost his job last month. We were barely scraping by then now it’s just so damn upsetting. It doesn’t matter what we do we are royally screwed!
September 24th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
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September 26th, 2008 at 6:41 am
I agree with you. I am ticked off at what the government has let greedy ceos get away with. But just to clarify- Bush isn’t the only one responsible- the Democratic congress is much to blame, along with former President Clinton who passed the bill to make lenders give money to people who couldnt afford it and had bad credit.
And Obama has put some of the sponsors of this bill on his advisory board.
Dont just vote- educate yourself on all the issues
September 30th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Holy crow I am with you on this one. Spouse was >>this<< close to loosing his job.
Oh and for the record I actually offered a undecided friend of mine $50 bucks to vote Obama. Yeah it’s that desperate.