I just wanted my milk to be cold.

[grrgoyl]

There's just no getting ahead in this world, lemme tell you.

We finally got all our appliances up to date a little over a year ago. In the words of Edward Norton in Fight Club, "You say to yourself, whatever else happens, I've got that sofa appliance problem handled

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[grrgoyl]

Old timey gold dances SOUND funny and amusing, but I would probably have been 10 times more alarmed if he had. Unfortunately he was too weighed down by the state of the country to engage in any spontaneous dancing.

Mostly I'm at a disadvantage because I guess I'm one of the Americans who just puts my head down and hopes for the best politically. I can't engage in any debates because I don't really understand the system well enough (though that apparently hasn't stopped any of these people screaming at representatives at Obama's "town hall meetings").

I talked about it with MyFriendDeb yesterday, who stays much more on top of things and who I rely on to explain it to me simply. A flat tax wouldn't work because poor people would never get ahead, struggling just to live day to day, never mind save anything for the future. The rich would just get richer and richer. And in an economy like we have right now, where consumers are buying the bare minimum until things improve, the government would come to a standstill because of the reduced revenue.

[grrgoyl]

Blah! So frustrating! I feel your pain. I have a broken stove and a broken clothes drier. Kicking them and crying does not seem to be answer to fixing either. I need a handy old coot to come out to my house but my dad lives too far away. :\

We gotta sales tax here instead of income tax and I used be all for it. But now, no one has any money to buy anything so the state is going belly up and they have to end health programs, close schools, and parks, and animal shelters.

I am becoming a very disgruntled citizen. The whole "death panels" bullshit has pushed me over the edge. I can't even watch the Daily Show anymore. And I don't even have the energy to become a raving loon.

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[grrgoyl]

Ah, sucky. Good thing you live in crunchy granola Washington, where people don't think twice about living "off the grid" and beating your clothes on rocks to clean them. I can send Old Rick your way, if you like. He might be hungry enough to travel that far.

See? I don't see why it's so hard to look at tax strategies in action and the negative (or positive) effects they're having before running off at the mouth about how this is the solution to everything.

MyFriendDeb filled me in about the "death panels." Thank you, Sarah Palin (who I'm sure has very nice insurance), for ruining it for the rest of us one last time before you vanish completely and make more babies.