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I know I shouldn't be so self-centered, but I can't help but get angrier and angrier the longer this financial crisis goes on. Angry because it's hitting responsible people like me (and probably most of you reading this) nearly as hard as the people who caused it - harder than the rich and powerful ones, most likely.
I've spent the last decade and more not doing all those things that irresponsible American consumers have supposedly been doing. I lived within my means: I paid all my bills on time so I'd have a decent credit score, bought economy cars that I could afford, not the most expensive one I could possibly get for a monthly payment of half my disposable income, bought a house with a sensible mortgage based on what we could actually pay rather than the assumption that we could avoid having to pay for it by selling it for twice as much in five years, saved up to 15% of my income, and bought nothing on a credit card for which I didn't already have cash in the checking account. I've done all that for one reason: because I didn't want to live in fear of being wiped out and living in a cardboard box under a bridge when the music stopped.
And yet, here we all are. Fuck you very much, all you assholes, rich, poor, and in between, who were so colossally irresponsible and wasteful that you fucked everything up for the rest of us.
Losing any chance I ever had to retire before I drop dead on the job, if I even have a job, makes me pretty bitter too. I guess it wasn't enough for my generation to be taxed another 15% for a supposed retirement plan we'll never see a penny of.
In other news: Happy 200th birthday, Charles Darwin. Oh yeah, and that other guy, too, the one who made the world safe for megacorporate rule and caused my hometown to be burned down.
I've spent the last decade and more not doing all those things that irresponsible American consumers have supposedly been doing. I lived within my means: I paid all my bills on time so I'd have a decent credit score, bought economy cars that I could afford, not the most expensive one I could possibly get for a monthly payment of half my disposable income, bought a house with a sensible mortgage based on what we could actually pay rather than the assumption that we could avoid having to pay for it by selling it for twice as much in five years, saved up to 15% of my income, and bought nothing on a credit card for which I didn't already have cash in the checking account. I've done all that for one reason: because I didn't want to live in fear of being wiped out and living in a cardboard box under a bridge when the music stopped.
And yet, here we all are. Fuck you very much, all you assholes, rich, poor, and in between, who were so colossally irresponsible and wasteful that you fucked everything up for the rest of us.
Losing any chance I ever had to retire before I drop dead on the job, if I even have a job, makes me pretty bitter too. I guess it wasn't enough for my generation to be taxed another 15% for a supposed retirement plan we'll never see a penny of.
In other news: Happy 200th birthday, Charles Darwin. Oh yeah, and that other guy, too, the one who made the world safe for megacorporate rule and caused my hometown to be burned down.