Unfair

This was an email to me from my dad...

Financial planning 101 for our elected officials - This course should be compulsory!!!You have 2 families... " Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live inCalifornia ." Joe Legal" works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted."Jose Illegal" also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".Joe Legal.. $25..00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week = $52,000 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax. Joe Legal now has $31,231.00.Jose Illegal... $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week = $31,200.00 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00.Joe Legal pays for Medical and Dental Insurance with limited coverage. $1000..00 per month = $12,000.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $19,231.00.Jose Illegal has full Medical and Dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 peryear. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.Joe Legal makes too much money to be eligible for Food Stamps or Welfare so Joe Legal pays for food... $1,000.00 per month = $12,000..00 per year. Joe Legal now has $7,231.00.Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for Food Stamps and Welfare. Jose Illegal still has$31,200.00.Joe Legal pays rent of $1,000.00 per month = $12,000.00 per year. Joe Legal is now in the hole -<$4,769.00>.Jose Illegal receives a $500 per month Federal rent subsidy, which entirely pays his rent of $500.00 per month = $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has$31,200.00.Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays and gets a part time job after work to make ends meet.Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family..Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school.Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get free government sponsored lunches.Joe Legal's children go home after school. Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program which, again, is provided free of charge.Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe Legal paid for them and Jose Illegal did not pay.ARE YOU MAD YET?!?!?!You should be!!!Pass this along to all the Blue and White collar Americans that are struggling from paycheck to paycheck to provide for their families.This is an outrage that HAS to be addressed.THIS is the time to get things started.We are poised on the brink of oblivion and it will take nothing short of an avalanche to get the bureaucrats to take action.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. ......Abraham Lincoln

Dutch Brothers Coffee

Two days ago, I went to Dutch Brothers to get my new found drink "The Cookie". It was recommended to me by one of the baristas. I drank half of my drink and found that it was hard to sip. Something was stuck in my straw. I keep sucking thinking it was ice, then it got to my lips and it was squishy. I then realized that nothing in my drink is this consistency. I pulled away from the straw, and I was staring at the butt of a bee... Stinger and all. I had been sucking on a bee! I took my drink back to show them what was in my drink, they made me a new one which I was unable to drink. And gave me two "free cards". The "free cards" weren't free at all. One I had to pay $1, and the other I had to rent two movies from Spotlight. What would you do if there was a bee in your coffee? I could have been stung by the bee on my tongue! I have been going there for my coffee since it opened in my area. I work at Starbucks but choose to get their coffee... Not anymore. I won't be drinking any coffee for a while now.

Working Your Life Away

I think life should be a lot easier. I mean really, who WANTS to work for their whole life? Not me! I don't know how much the average person works, my fiance works 9 hours a day, which is almost 50 hours a week, and 200 hours in a month. 12 months in a year make that 2400 hours a year. That's ridiculous. We hardly ever have time for each other. And its hard to find family time during the week.... We always spend time with our daughter separately due to work. There are people that pay more attention to their work than their families. If everyone worked better together maybe we wouldn't have to work so much and still survive happily. There are so many people that die of starvation. It's sad that so many kids have parents that would rather shoot up than feed them. It's unbelievable that some girls cant go to school when they have their menstrual cycle because they don't have the money to get the sanitary items. The human race is selfish. We want everything for ourselves and better things than what the other person has. What if everyone had the same things, survived, stayed healthy, lived happily, and essentially lived stress free. Is that too boring for us? Is that why we live like this? There are so many things that need to change, so many people are dying that can be saved. We need to find a solution.

Most Blogs

You know, I think most blogs are complaints... Its sad really. I know mine are. It is so much easier to vent to a piece of paper or a computer screen. Why? Because you don't want to tell someone else. They don't listen, your too embarrased, or you just don't want to involve someone else in your problems. A blog is so much simpler... No back talk, no opinion, you don't have to recieve a relpy if you don't want to, and you don't even have to talk. Just let your thoughts flow through your body, into your fingers, and onto the keyboard. Right? It does amaze me with how many things are possible on the internet but they also feel natural in a way. This is therapy for the price of whatever your internet bill is and how much you paid for your computer! It's cheaper than a therapist!

Friends

I hate not having that many friends. I'm all alone for a week and no one is available to go out with me or just hang out. It sucks that I am actually gonna be completely alone this whole week. Trevor and Alayna just left this morning, I wish I could have gone with them rather than have this feeling of emptiness. This is rediculous. I really should have more friends than this. I have plenty of "friends", I just want more of the ones that I can call up to hang out with.

The Frustration

I try to be less jealous with my fiance because I know that I am overly jealous. We have a baby together so I feel less jealous knowing that he wants to be with me. But I still don't think it's okay for him to be enrolled in a dating service. He says he only did it so his brother could get points and he doesn't pay for it. When I checked it this morning he added a girl in our area as a crush and messaged her. It's not myspace so anything you send someone else is considered flirtatious, right? I am so sick and tired of repeating myself. If I don't want him talking to his ex's on myspace why would he think it's okay to message some girl on a dating service. He wouldn't think it was okay if I did this to him. But he insists, I trust you so it wouldn't bother me. What am I supposed to say if one of my friends or someone else I know sees him on there and tells me. Am I supposed to act like the stupid wife, "Oh yeah I know, it's for his brother." That just makes myself sound so stupid. He doesn't consider how I feel about things in general and just does them without asking me. Where is the F-ing communication? Huh? I don't understand why he makes things seem so difficult. God!!!

Money in a Family

My fiance of five years recently sold a little WW2 Paratrooper Welbike on ebay. In the years that we have lived together, the money in our relationship is our money. We have bills just like any other person and we have a daughter. We have been strapped for cash like a lot of people lately so when he got $7000 for the bike he didn't pay for, we were really happy. The thing was that he didn't talk to me about him splitting the money with his dad. He told me he was going to. It sounded nice at first but as soon as I thought about all of our bills and how much that money could help I didn't think he should give his dad half... Maybe $2000 would be fine but not half. My fiance went through so much trouble getting this bike to ship to the buyer in the UK. His father didn't give him the bike he got it through a coworker. His father made a crate which helped a lot, but I can't understand why he would rather give his dad half of the money than pay off some of our debts. We have been short on money for food! His dad would have been happy with a smaller dollar amout. Along with all of the problem with shipping. The buyer sent us the money for shipping and cost but paypal deducted the entire shipping money. Well, before my fiance knew how much shipping was going to be, he took his fathers half out of the money. Leaving him with $3500. Two weeks later, I get a bill from fedex for $940. My fiance said he will just take it out of his money!!! I couldn't believe this. First he already gave his dad more than what I was comfortable with, second he didn't even ask my opinion, third he would be getting $1000 less than his dad and the money should be going to him. I told him he has to at least get half the shipping cost from his dad. He agrees, then tells me he will pay 400 then split the remainder between him and his dad. This was wrong too!!! He doesnt' realize how his is spliting up the money, it's making me angry that he feels like he has to take care of his dad when he has a family. His father can't work cause he owes for child support and they would deduct the money from his paycheck. That's not my fiance's fault and he shouldn't be responsible for his dad at this point in time. He still has like 20 years to go. We have a family, bills, and we really could of used the money to lower our debts. Especially in this economy. I'm so frustrated and I don't feel like he even tried to see what I thought about this. He makes me feel like it's none of my business.