FirstLight (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-21-10 01:36 PM
Original message
I am so ****ing DONE
Edited on Thu Jan-21-10 01:39 PM by FirstLight
At the very least, my Obama Biden stickers are coming OFF the car this week.
and if I had the resources, I would be gone from this country...
...or at least run away to my ranch in the hills and stop paying taxes and voting...**** em...if they want my livelihood, they can come after me to get it.
...Pull my kids out of school and go live off the land, set up my own off-the-grid home and just do what I WANT.
I am tired of trying to find a job and make life work by THEIR rules, tired of having my earned income credit TAKEN to pay for student loans on and education that is null & void
tired of hoping for things to get better when they really are not going to anytime soon
tired of trying to make my children good little citizens, when they should be learning more about ecology and surviving the next decades of Earth changes
tired of having to tell the welfare office details about my life, every nickel and dime and bank statement watched for fraud when the banks and politicians are stealing openly
tired of the way things keep getting worse, even when you think they can't
I'm not giving up, i am taking my life back.
but first i'm going to go have a good *cry*
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7532806Hey DUmmie. I'm tired of my tax dollars going to support your freeloading. It's not my fault you didn't take college courses that employers found useful.
Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-21-10 01:39 PM
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1. I'm right there with you, FirstLight
I'll bring the kleenex.
asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-21-10 01:40 PM
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2. I hear ya.
I'm pretty much off the grid as much as I can be in the city. I'm not voting. I've got my big garden, I work for myself and I am done with the political process until they do something to bring me back.
I volunteer locally and do what I can for my neighbors, but I too am done.
Cable/internet , power and phone is not being off the grid. It sounds like you are working but not paying taxes.
WheelWalker (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-21-10 01:41 PM
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5. You live at Lake Tahoe and visit the welfare office?
But it's in the poor section of Lake Tahoe.
FirstLight (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-21-10 01:47 PM
Response to Reply #5
12. why do you ask?
Because your story of woe doesn't add up?
bkozumplik (147 posts) Thu Jan-21-10 01:48 PM
Response to Reply #5
15. yes, theres plenty of poor locals in tahoe.
The tourist industry needs workers. I know a woman with a child who lives in a tiny uninsulated apartment above someones garage and who rides her bike around even in the winter (no car) with her young kid on the back of it.
In Tahoe.
Happens. I'd rather be poor someplace warm. I think she should move.
Really, if she can't afford a Prius, make her leave.
FirstLight (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-21-10 02:05 PM
Response to Reply #15
23. It's not called "Poverty with a View" for nuthin!
One of my good friends was all stoked to get a job after 1 1/2 yrs of unemployment...she has 2 kids and a husband who is a loser...and she is working at the ski resort now for $8 an hour...which is just highway robbery on the part of these ****ing corporations... (heavenly/vail resorts...ya)
I moved up here in 92 because I needed the safety of being in a small town and not the big city ...small town poverty is different and in my mind a lot less dangerous. (I came from Oakland too)
Problem is, you get stuck here. Can't make enough to MOVE, and getting a job in another area and moving is not that easy with kids either.
So I freelance and make my way with odd jobs, most of us here in rural mountain towns have at least 3 or 4 different 'angles' or 'professions' to get by. I've known people who work at the grocery chain (which is supposed to be one of the better jobs) and still have to wait tables or something to make ends meet.
I look at it as "survival training"
Safer than the big city, because there aren't as many cops looking for you there?
SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-21-10 02:00 PM
Response to Reply #5
21. What, you think everyone living in Lake Tahoe is well to do? How very elitist of you.
We've come to expect elitism from all DimRats.
kjackson227 (976 posts) Thu Jan-21-10 01:44 PM
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10. Even the Obama Head Cheerleader is becoming more and more...
disillusioned. Still hoping things will turn around
Uh-uh, not supposed to use that word: cheerleader.
KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-21-10 01:55 PM
Response to Reply #10
19. head "cheerleader"? What a ****ing insult. At least some of us haven't spent the last year
tearing the man down on a methodical basis.
I told him.
Desertrose (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-21-10 01:54 PM
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18. My stickers came off last spring.....
I totally hear ya....live with my grown kids and the son just got laid off.Thank goodness we can stick together and hopefully weather things out...the future?? Not the one I had envisioned for so long....but I ain't givin' up.
We need to all quit playing by their ridiculous rules!!!
Sorry for all you DUmmies, but you voted for the clowns that are controlling the government right now. Your bitter tears are sweet.