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.

[Windflier]

You don’t have to be a libtard, leftist, moonbat, commie, marxist to write this stuff. 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.

You and me, both, friend. I used to have six year-round employees. Nowadays, I'm lucky to get three days of work a week, and it's just me by my lonesome.

My wife and children and I have lived through everything that moonbat is crying about, over the last few years. It's why I'm going to work my ever lovin' tail off to elect Palin when she announces.

Unlike that crying moonbat, my wife and I have busted our hump to do the best we can through these hard times. It's hard, but it's not forever.

[arthurus]

I want to shop at the Dollar Store because I'm thrifty, not because it is the only way I can afford luxuries

The Dollar stores have lower prices on most things because they sell them in smaller packages. Most of the prices per unit are actually higher than at, say, WalMart.

[Persevero]

I actually feel sorry for this woman. Her rant has a ring of honesty.

She’s in a horrible place and she doesn’t have the tools to get out.

No matter that her activism/votes increased her misery. She doesn’t get it. She wants a job.

I hope she gets one; and the understand about basic economics that she needs.

[Persevero]

“, my wife and I have busted our hump to do the best we can through these hard times.”

Note the poster appears to be a single mom. A one-way ticket to poverty, normatively.

[arthurus]

This woman apparently has not a husband and that, of course, maks her situation rather worse. I am sure she felt that she needed a man like a fish needs a Harley but she didn’t have the nerve to be a Compleat Woman by aborting her kids. If she had done that she would not have the expense of the kids’ upkeep and she could be totally liberally alone...

[boop]

I feel for this woman's frustration about wanting to work, and not being able to find it. At least she isn't whining about how her food stamps just don't go as far anymore.

BTW, why ISN'T this woman on food stamps, WIC, and medicaid? Illegal aliens have no problem getting on these programs. Should be a snap for an American.

And to reflect what the OP said, the liberals have gotten EVERYTHING they wanted when they elected Obama, including "essentials" like repealing DADT, and destroying the coal industry. The repubs have done nothing to stop him. So why so glum?

[oldenuff2no]

I'm pretty hard core but I would help her if I could. I'm disabled and work for myself because no one will hire me.
I spent 10 years in the cycle of surgery, PT, and recovery. We went without a lot of things.
To the author of this story. If you are reading this I want you to know that there are many of us on both sides of the political fence who have been where you are now. I hope you are beginning to realize that elections have consequences and not all of then are good.
This president can give a great speech but is totally over his head. He has no experience of any kind that will lead to his success. Even today he again refused to take any responsibility for the economy. We the people will suffer because of him and his failures.

[Two Kids' Dad]

This chick would be a perfect match for my loser leftist ‘friend’ Jim that I invited to join in our 4th of July celebration. Similar theme of helplessness and hopelessness. Went to school on someone else’s dime to learn how to be a motorcycle mechanic and couldn’t get a job afterward. He wears old and stained clothes, subsists on mac n cheese (but will still find a way to afford cigarettes and weed), drives a 1992 car with a jillion miles on it, yet still thinks 0bama’s a great guy that’ll make everything better. And yes, he blames Republicans for all his woes.

When talking to Two Kids’ Mom the next morning, we agreed he won’t be invited to future events.

[ViLaLuz]

Can’t be too poor if it can afford a dog.

[Harley]

You forgot, I want a new condom that I don’t have to wash out and dry. I want a sandwich made with something other than vaseline and bread, I want a new toothbrush that isn’t a hand me down, I want to brush my teeth with toothpaste and not palmolive soap, and I want a President that likes the USA and really cares about the people.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Cartman to Scott Tenorman: “Mmmm! The tears of unfathomable sadness.”

Best. Episode. Ever!

[denydenydeny]

I know many freepers are cold hearted towards this

Not me. There but for the grace of God. What infuriates me are people who live better than me on government benefits. People on food stamps who take Disney vacations. Eight-person households in which everyone is "disabled" and which receives a monthly government check in the mid-four figures.

[Windflier]

Note the poster appears to be a single mom. A one-way ticket to poverty, normatively.

My own mother was a single mom with seven kids in the late 60s. Dad sent child support every month, but that wasn't enough to keep us above the poverty level. She worked to keep us above poverty, and she could, because the country hadn't yet been totally undone by Socialism.

This gal is suffering from a deeply entrenched social paradigm that has been many decades in the making, and which she put her own shoulder to the wheel to forward.

[RipSawyer]

“That Obama should end his Presidency with riots in the cities shall not surprise me at all.”
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Any different outcome would surprise me greatly!

[RipSawyer]

“I fervently hope it is not too late, but I fear that economic collapse and social upheaval may be just around the corner.”
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Truth be told it is already here but the media doesn’t report all of it. America right now is like an aging woman covered in pancake makeup, managing to still look presentable as long as you don’t look too closely.

[bfree]

You are not alone. Many people could have written the origianl post, didn’t have to come from Kos, it is the new reality, unfortunately. Hopefully, the destruction of obami can occur and the repeal of his policies will bring the country back.

[RipSawyer]

“BTW, why ISN’T this woman on food stamps, WIC, and medicaid? Illegal aliens have no problem getting on these programs. Should be a snap for an American.”
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From what she says she probably still owns some kind of property that keeps her from qualifying. Many of these programs require you to liquidate anything you own pretty much before you can qualify.

[erod]

I have zero sympathy for these commies. Some of us wanted to work hard and get ahead, some of us wanted to own a house, some of us wanted to have a job when we got out of school, and some of us knew that voting for this Kenyan clown would result in this exact secnario that we have today. They can all kiss my ***.

[I still care]

You are entitled to a certain amount from disability SSD if you worked and paid into it. If because of certain other things you can afford a vacation, I don’t have a problem with that.

SSI (different from SSD) is different. It is easier to get, gives less money, and you aren’t supposed to have other assets. You don’t have to pay into it the way you do SSD. It’s more like real welfare for the disabled.

What I do have a problem with is people who can go on those vacations because they not only get that check, but they are secretly working for cash and lying about being disabled in the first place. I’ve seen so many of those.

They are “disabled” and yet can run their own business on the side on a cash basis. My son came home disgusted today from work because the boss’s SIL is trying to do that.

[cracker45]

“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.”

You were wearing bra’s and tampons???? I’d quit that crap ASAP then reassess your opinion of this hopeless, socialist loser expecting a handout! LOL

JC