Taxes

People always complain that they don't want to pay taxes.  The reason they complain IMO, is because they think taxes help "other people" or "those people."  Meaning people who don't look like them or live like them.  What they don't get is that all it takes is one turn of bad luck to become one of "those other people."  Life is random.

I work with an introvert

I sit in the office with a woman who is an introvert.  This is something very unusual for me.  My last co-worker was an extrovert and we had a great time.  This woman says "good morning" and that's it.  She rarely talks to people.  When asked to go out to lunch with a group, she either says "no" or reluctantly agrees to go, but sits quietly and doesn't engage. 

At first I thought this was weird.  But then I started talking to people who are introverts.  They told me that introverts become exhausted by too much stimulation, that they get recharged by being quiet and alone.  It's not that introverts aren't nice people (lots of times people think they're snotty, I know I sometimes do), it's that they just get tired by the constant chatter.  The chatter actually makes them feel TIRED.  My mom is this way and I used to think she was weird.  I used to wish I had a more outgoing mother.  I mean who the heck wants to just sit quietly all the time?  EWWW.

However I have learned to deal with this woman.  I have to remember that she's not a snotty bitch.  That all she wants to do is come to work, do her work quietly and go home.  She's not the companion I want, but in life you just have to accept what you got.

This guy gets it

He really gets it
He gets that having a good paying job, health insurance, education, a nice place to live are NOT things a person should get because they're lucky.  They are rights.  He says that the only reason he's in his position is because he's lucky.  Just because a person is lucky doesn't give them the right to walk upon the rights of others.  A civilized society is only so because of the way we treat its weakest members.  On that we fail in the USA.

Good point Keith

You tell them Keith

This says it all.

Occupy America

I think it's shameful what the NYPD did to the OWS protesters yesterday.  What the heck did they think was going to happen?  OMG, revolution?  Here's what pisses me off.

Many of the people complaining about OWS are my age.  30 years ago, college was affordable if your parents made a decent salary.  The college I went to only cost about 5K per year. When I graduated, my student loans were about $700 dollars.  I moved back with my mom when I graduated, she had a government job.  I got a job two months after I graduated from college.  It was a different world back then.  Things weren't easy, but they were manageable.  From what I'm hearing today, things aren't even manageable.  Young people owe five and six figures in loans, they come back home and their parents have been laid off and they can't find jobs.  All of the Union manufacturing jobs have left the US; and the only things left are in food service and retail, minimum wage jobs that are below the poverty level.

It makes me sad and it makes me angry as well.  People have gotten so greedy, they don't care about anything that goes beyond their noses.  They don't want to pay taxes because they feel those programs help people who aren't like them, yeah, that's what they think.  The people these programs help are their neighbors, but they don't know because they don't care.

That's why this mess happened in Penn State.  People were too concerned with losing their jobs than they were protecting children.  They were more concerned with protecting the football program than protecting minors.  Like I said, people today are too selfish, if it's not about ME ME ME, they don't care.

And now...

It looks like that nasty, insecure woman will win DWTS because the only real star, JR hurt his ankle. 

Figures, the devil always seems to win, huh?

I can't stand entitled insecure women

I can't stand to watch "Dancing with the Stars" this season because of Ricki Lake who I used to ADORE.  For some reason she's become so insecure and entitled.  She has this attitude that she SHOULD win DWTS just because she's Ricki Lake.  I hope she realizes that most of the people voting for her are really voting for her partner, Derek Hough, who is a doll, in fact he looks like a Ken doll I used to have when I was a kid in the 60's.  OMG, maybe that's why so many older dolls like Derek, he looks like the Ken doll they used to have as kids.  Even though Ken wasn't anatomically correct.

Anyway, I wish Ricki Lake would have more confidence.  She's fine at the weight she is, she doesn't need to be a size 4 for people to love her.  She's 43 for goodness sake, size 4 doesn't look good at 43 or else you'll look like those Beverly Hills Houswives, bobble head dolls with big heads, big boobs and a skinny body.  Besides, I haven't met one man yet, black or white who wants to make love to a skeleton.