Audit and Adjustment corp are the most heartless, compassionless, aggressive, rat bastard mother-fuckers I have ever had the misfortune of having to deal with.  Consider this a public service announcement.

Found on Rep. Adam Smith's (D-WA) page, as part of an explanation as to why he voted for the bailout package--

"I also want to make clear that significant economic hardship is coming no matter what we do. Our nation has lived on credit for far too long, from the federal government's growing debt right down to average households where we have been ( Read more... )

So I think the bailout plan was a terrible idea and I find myself relieved that it was defeated (if they want to try again with some friggin' oversight written in I'll rethink my position).  However, this seems to put my on the side of Republicans which is highly unusual for me.  I am wondering if there is something I am completely missing here, ( Read more... )

I have been getting a lot of books from the library lately and have mostly been reading non-fiction (I like to learn new things all the time and even the fiction I have been reading lately has been very illuminating).  On my last trip one caught my eye.  It was called "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich.  I had never heard of the author but it ( Read more... )

I have become pretty adept at working the ads.  In the interest of saving money, I carefully go through each ad, seeing who has the best prices on items, then basing my weekly menus around those ads, hitting two and occasionally three different stores when I do my weekly shopping.  It means we eat a lot of chicken and vegetarian pasta dishes, but I ( Read more... )

"Along with racism and sexism, our society has a form of caste system based on what you do for money.  We call that jobism, and it pervades our interactions with one another on the job, in social settings and even at home. Why else do we consider housewives second-class citizens?"

Dominguez/ Robin "Your Money or Your Life"