Daily Kos'r Goes NUTZ, Still Can't Admit It's the Democrats/Obama's Fault!(Vanity)

TCRLAF | 8.7.2011 | TCRLAF

[tcrlaf]

I wonder what this Bay Area nutjob THOUGHT was going to happen when he fought to put Democrats in Charge???

I want my f*#%ing life back

I want to not be invisible anymore.

I want to get up and shower and have somewhere to go.

I want to punch the people who talk about the recession being over.

I want to not have to choose between toilet paper or dog food.

I want to take back all the money I spent on student loans for an education that does me no good now.

I want to stop mending the waistband of five-year-old sweatpants.

I want to not consider two tacos for a dollar at Jack In The Box a splurge.

I want to walk into a job interview not reeking of desperation.

I want to be able to afford a simple goddamned urn for my daughter's ashes.

I want to pay just one bill on its due date, not have to wait until the FINAL NOTICE.

I want to be able to drive across town to pick my kid up so he doesn't have to walk in the rain.

I want to shop at the Dollar Store because I'm thrifty, not because it is the only way I can afford luxuries like body wash, toothpaste and laundry soap.

I want to be able to drive the two hours to Santa Cruz to visit my dying friend.

I want to pay for a haircut, instead of using the kitchen scissors to “even up the ends again”.

I want to have a shit job to bitch about.

I want to not panic every time the doorbell rings unexpectedly.

I want to split a tab or treat someone to something.

I want to wear contact lenses again, instead of these wobbly old glasses.

I want to be able to buy a present for my goddaughters.

I want to go to the theater to see a movie and pay for my own damn ticket.

I want to drive a completely legal car legally.

I want to not have to choose between buying tampons or a pound of ground beef.

I want to buy a book that ISN'T on the 25-cent rack at the Thrift Store.

I want to stop avoiding my friends because they're pitying or worse.

I want to not have to invent new ways to rearrange my resume and STILL get no response.

I want to get my dogs their shots so I can take them to the park.

I want to use good trash bags.

I want to wake up without dread that today is the day it will all come tumbling down.

I want to consider owning a spicebox and a mortar and pestle NOT a pipe dream.

I want a new bra.

I want to feel like a real person again.

I want to BE a real person again.

I am sick to death of this Middle Class poverty (not a penny to my name, but the remnants of a better life all around me)

I am sick to death of dumbing down my resume, groveling for jobs I could have done at sixteen and STILL not getting hired.

I am sick to death of feeling powerless.

I am sick to death of apologizing and being shamed and embarrassed for being one of the long-term unemployed.

I am sick to death of tailoring my resume to each job and STILL not getting a response from 99% of the companies I apply to.

I am sick to death of people telling me that I “really should see a doctor” when nothing would please me more, except that I can't afford to do so.

I am sick to death of not even getting interviewed for open positions, and then getting shitty service from the person they DID hire when I didn't even get an interview.

I am sick to death of turning down invitations to do things with friends, because I can't afford to do so.

I am sick to death of pretending that holidays don't exist because I can't afford to celebrate them.

I am sick to death of throwing away 2/3 of my mail without even opening it because I know that there's a bill or a statement from someone I owe that I can't afford to pay.

I am sick to death of explaining to other people that “getting a job at McDonalds” is not as simple as they think.

I am sick to death of hiding, being quiet, trying to play nice, mentally composing suicide letters, trying to figure out who can take care of my dogs/cat/kid when it all goes to hell like it is bound to do.

I am sick to death of feeling powerless.

I am sick to death of being unable to pay my own way.

I am sick to death of people telling me that “it could be worse”, because I know that it could and I am convinced that it will and I am only biding my time in this limbo which is a certain kind of hell all its own.

I am sick to death of these conversations where my friends and I try to brainstorm ways to get the hell out of this town/state in hopes that there is some place where we can still trade hard work for decent wages and crawl out of the hellhole we've fallen into.

I am sick to death of having to look my son in the eye and admit that I have failed him, that I failed his sister, that I have failed us all.

I am sick. And sad. And exhausted. And undone.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Count me as number three that feels bad for this woman and her children.

Daily I see people walking the highway infront of the business I work for. They carry bags of groceries (bright yellow_ from the Dollar General. Walking sometimes w/kids also carrying a bag or two. I figure they can’t put gas in a vehicle-and this is how they are making ends meet.

Yes, this woman and her idiotic, unfailing believe in ‘Hoax and Chains” is culpable...but it is scary to know how fast it all can unravel.

Err for the grace of G-d go I...

[Yardstick]

I can’t work up anything but pity. Whatever this person’s unreasonable political expectations, her life sucks for some reasons I understand. I’ve been there and done that. Prayers up for an opportunity she won’t waste.

Ditto.

[DiogenesLamp]

But what about the rest of us? I didn’t vote fore this crap BUT i just as well have written it. Seventy five percent of this piece could have been written by myself.

Times are frigging tough right now and the future doesn’t seem hopeless, IT IS HOPELESS.

I fear you are correct. I have long felt that the value of our money has been a group indulged fantasy, and if the spell should ever be broken, people would look upon what they have with despair, because the only reason we use that paper is because the government tells us it's worth something, and we believe them.

If you think things are bad now, I perceive they can become much worse. That Obama should end his Presidency with riots in the cities shall not surprise me at all.

[Chode]

somebody had to do it...

[mowowie]

Irony, apparently they don’t get it. and never will.
Libs are fun to laugh at, until we are too busy living our own lives and not noticing them slithering in.

When that happens.....well, we now know what happens...

[LibLieSlayer]

“The one that got me was the one where she knows she needs to see a doctor, and can’t afford it. That’s horrible.”

Any public Hospital is required not only to see her... but the fact that she cannot pay can in no way limit her medical treatment. It is posted in every room in both English and the new official language of conquistaville.. spanish.

LLS

[mowowie]

“...and where we can vote for the same failed policies and people as where we left and turn where ever we go into the same sh!thole that we made of where we were... right???”

Yup
ain’t that the way.
Ask NH.

[DiogenesLamp]

Count me as number three that feels bad for this woman and her children.

Daily I see people walking the highway infront of the business I work for. They carry bags of groceries (bright yellow_ from the Dollar General. Walking sometimes w/kids also carrying a bag or two. I figure they can’t put gas in a vehicle-and this is how they are making ends meet.

Yes, this woman and her idiotic, unfailing believe in ‘Hoax and Chains” is culpable...but it is scary to know how fast it all can unravel.

Err for the grace of G-d go I...

I fear the times is coming when the commodity which we will least be able to afford is sympathy. The great Depression occurred to a God-fearing and Industrious people, not to a generation of helpless and self serving spoiled brats. If and when an economic collapse occurs, the babies, rather than deal with their impoverishment, will throw their bottles and break things.

I fervently hope it is not too late, but I fear that economic collapse and social upheaval may be just around the corner. Many of us may well be walking in as bad or worse shoes soon.

[Minn]

I want to not have to choose between buying tampons or a pound of ground beef.

I'm not sure ground beef would provide the absorbency you need. And without a string...

[Wallop the Cat]

Then he will say to those on his left, "Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me."

They also will answer, "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?"

He will reply, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me."

[esoxmagnum]

“We can always hope that they’l learn from experience. Trouble is, few of ‘em do.”

I’m not so sure about that. They used to say the definition of a conservative, was a liberal who got mugged. I must say, I was a dem until Carter mugged me and everyone around me as a young man. I had that epiphany, and it was Ronald Reagan. Carter created more conservatives than anyone on the planet I think. I think Obama will do the same. Folks are getting mugged, economically. They are getting mugged by affirmative action. They are getting mugged by taxes. They are getting mugged by having their religious beliefs attacked. They are getting mugged by having their children brainwashed in the schools.

It is no longer called a mugging, it is called a ‘flashmob’. This administration has ‘flashmobbed’ the country, and I think the result will be a whole bunch of people who awaken one day to find themselves as conservatives. Some are just too stupid of course, and others have selfish reasons to stay democrat (gub’mint workers, union workers, the lazy, the permanent victim types), but the rest, I think we will see a resurgence, and the media fears this much, which is why they will attack (and are attacking) anyone with values (Palin, Bachman, Cain, you take your pick).

[mowowie]

Hopelessness
i’m feeling it big time and i did not ask for it.
I’ve done nothing wrong, i’m not a bad person and i do not screw others over.
I owe no one anything. (except BofA) :(

I live and let live YET these FREAKS are ruining my life!
Well, a strong man, no matter what, finds a way to survive.

so they say...

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Believe me...I know. For our family, it was my husband’s heart attack last summer. Nine weeks of disability pay; $300 plus a month in medicine co-pays; plus hospital copays; plus...its bad for everyone I know and work with. I know fellow FReepers will flame moi for being ‘squishy’ but I feel this woman’s hurt. Been there...done that.

[mowowie]

You make a very scary point.

[I still care]

I spoke today to a woman on the phone who has no car to go pick up medication she needs to save her sight. Several weeks ago I brought her some KFC, she nearly cried, she was so happy. She never gets a special treat. A friend went and got her, but I know many in her situation.

I know many freepers are cold hearted towards this. But I live in an area where I know people come into work hungry. It’s not as easy as get a job, pay your way.

[Noumenon]

Interesting change of metaphor - from the mugger to the flash mob as the agent of awakening. There’s a certain amouint of truth to that.

On the other hand, almost half of the voting public are composed of Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen. IOW, the Free Shit Army. They all want their Free Shit - that’d be your and my stuff - and God help anyone who gets in their way when the goodies aren’t forthcoming. Just like lab rats in a behavioral conditioning experment, they’ve been trained to pull the ‘D’ voting lever to get their little food pellet. Imagine the rage and the frustration when it finally dawns on them that there will be no more pellets forthcoming. They’ll go lab rat crazy. Not all, but most. Because they’ll be totally unwilling to give their picture of how the world works - the Free Shit world - in favor of reality.

[Noumenon]

Ayn Rand saw it clearly years ago:

The greatest guilt today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "But I didn't mean this!"

Those who want slavery should have the grace to name it by its proper name. They must face the full meaning of that which they are advocating or condemning; the full, exact, specific meaning of collectivism, of its logical implications, of the principles upon which it is based, and of the ultimate consequences to which these principles will lead.

Well - here you are...

[esoxmagnum]

“they’ve been trained to pull the ‘D’ voting lever to get their little food pellet”

lol, that is a GREAT line, and with your permission, I’m going to steal that for my tagline!

[Noumenon]

With pleasure - have at it!

[Navy Patriot]

I spent some time reading through this woman's post and the replies, and I see a common thread of envy in these people.

They want, and rage at others that have. No one ever supposes that they did not have, or train to acquire the skills that those that have, used to acquire what they have. It's always some rich guy's fault that they can't get a job, never their university major of Ethnic Studies African Basket-weaving.

But the kicker was a job suggestion reply that I will post for your consideration.

I was trying to garner a little sympathy for these people, but I lost it.

As follows:

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