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Well I have kept quite on Mindsay about how I feel about the economic bail out. And after getting a little more information, talking to a few people (including accountants and one friend that works for the IRS), and then hearing that the House defeated the bail out bill; I felt it was time to open my mouth.
I say good for the House of Reps for defeating the dayum thing! If you didn't know the buy out wouldn't have saved anyone? Including us peons of the middle and poor classes? If anything it would have harmed those of us that pay more taxes in then the rich ppl!
If you think I am shitting, you should have talked to your accountant and made a few phone calls to the IRS. If the bail out would have gone through, come Febuary when the next installment of the bail out was destined to happen, those of us who pay in to taxes and get tax returns would have been ass out! The big wigs and the politicians that wrote the bail out contract had it in their bill that if it came to pass, they would have taken everyone's tax return at next tax time.
Now normally I am not a big Michael Moore fan, but Mr. Moore with the help of MIT Financial Students, came up with a different plan for the same amount of money of the first bail out. That plan would have given each US Citizen 15-20 million dollars apeice. Not couples but apeice. Basically giving us back our own money. Do you know what all of us could have done with that money? We could have stabilized the economy! Those banks who are sitting on bad loans, could have been paid off by those that are paying on the bad loans. The housing market would have boomed! Morgateges would have been paid off, those of us that rent would have been able to go out and buy a house. The car industry would have increased because of everyone going out and buying new vechiles. The Retail industry would have increased with ppl doing home maintanice, buying items they have been needing but couldn't afford, and the travel industry would have boomed also! Not to mention we would have helped to bail out the financal institutions by investing our money. Back bills would have been paid off, increasing business investments of companies that would have seen a windfall of money coming at them!
Instead of helping these super rich coroprate men, they should look into helping the American People. And I have said it before and I'll say it again; I know right were we can get soem extra cash and clean up a budget or two! Take the dayum outragous income that still living Presidents and their wives get and cut it in 3/4 of what it is! They have done their job they shouldn't be getting that much money after the fact they did their job in office. The wives shouldn't get shit! They didn't do anything for our gov't. OOOOOOO they were ambassadors what ever. They weren't on the pay roll they don't get retirement! Same with the preisdential widows! Their ol men made a butt load of money. If they didn't invest it properally not the tax payers problems!
Okay that little rant is over with.:d So I finally put my two cents in on the bail out. I think we the people should get the money to pay off our back bills, our morgatages, and go out and help the economy instead of giving it to the banks that screwed up and gave out bad loans!
But at times I feel an urge to write. Not so much about myself but about things, whatever they happen to be. Why can't I just do that then? Do I really need to post online? No, but perhaps I'm seeking a little attention, or perhaps having an organized forum would inspire me to write more. Who knows. I may give it a try. I may not.
We'll see...
Early in the morning, there was an individual who came in, wanting to return a DVD. Probably everyone knows this, but federal copyright law means that if the seal's broken, you can only exchange it for the same DVD. We usually have three of these cases a day, and most of the time people are pretty understanding and say, "Fine, I just need one that isn't scratched." In his case, his problem was the player and not the disc, and he knew it, but we still couldn't do anything. He kind of exploded at my manager (I call her micromanager, but she really does do good work), threw the case, and stormed off.
Well, that's not anything new. Happens. We just kind of duck, and get back to work after they're gone. What IS new was that about an hour later, he came back, and apologized. Of course, after an hour, we've almost forgotten the incident (this really does happen a lot), so it was a very nice surprise. He was pretty nice about it, asked for the disc back, and headed out.
So, until almost lunchtime, I'm the only one working at the desk. My friend Rachel is over at the photo place, kiddycorner from the desk. Rachel and I've known each other for years - we used to be neighbors, we had karate together (she was a lot more advanced), went to the same school, and there was a mini-drama in my social circle
Rachel is, incidentally, the anti-drama. She's so low-key, so laid-back, very helpful, rather goofy, and that perfect blend of savvy with a dash of ditzy. Ditzy isn't even the word for it, she just comes across that way because she's rather random. Needless to say, I think she's fantastic, and I love days when we get to work together.
Partly because we get to share stories. For example, today's inspiration came from a kitchen implement that needed a new price tag, and so had found its way up to my desk. Rachel, being Rachel, is playing with it a bit, and explains the story of the chicken tenderizer.
It seems that a few years ago, Rachel was preparing supper for herself and her roommate. Lacking a meat tenderizing mallet, she searched for something else that'd do. Rachel being Rachel, she concluded that the best substitute for a meat tenderizing mallet was...a hammer.
The rest of the story was only managed between her chuckles and my outright laughter, but the whole thing ended with her getting salmonella, and her roommate establishing the law that she's no longer allowed to prepare or even touch unprepared meat.
Another character at work is Andy. Andy is savvy and sardonic, sarcastic, fun, effective, and decently dependable. A good combination for work and work pals, but I'm pretty sure that outside of work we'd have nothing to do with each other. But, I'm helping a mom with her return, and her little girl is there, chewing on the counter (she's maybe seven). Andy comes up from in back, probably asked me for the keys or something, he's working on a project to take back to his department of the store.
Little girl stops chewing, studies Andy, studies me. I'm almost finished processing receipt, mind's kind of logging whatever Andy said, and then she pulls her head up (catching my eye) and asks me with big eyes, "Is that your husband?"
Totally made my morning. Kids at camp pair up counselors all the time, but I'd not had anyone do it at work. Her mom almost blushed, and before I started laughing, I just answered as seriously as I could, "No, he's not my husband."
I amend that. There was a running joke that BJ (one of the photo guys) and I were engaged, but then he moved to Wendy's city. So, yes, I've been paired by coworkers, but not by kids.
Had a couple of fun things with Sandman. Sandman and I have a very dubious relationship. Strictly speaking, we're not supposed to get along as well as we do - there's some family nastiness, long story. I, however, am apparently incapable of staying mad at anyone, so I just don't talk about him to my mom. We goof around together, accuse each other of quite a bit more slacking than we know is going on, work well together, show each other how to get around different functions on Mecc's goofy software, and when something nasty is going on in the other's life, offer concern. Having a day when I get to work with both Rachel and Sandman is definitely good.
So, I'd say, Saturday shift was good.
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