Monday, October 25, 2010

Times are brutal

Seen recently in relatively well off St. Louis:

  • A mid level executive at one of our contractors (no bonuses for a couple of years) using her lunch break to surf the web for the best place to hock gold jewelry to keep her daughter in Catholic school because (of course) the much richer government schools suck so much.
  • A friend descending into depression because after three years of struggling he can't make ends meet and is rapidly running out of options.  Depression won't help, but he can no longer resist.
  • Another friend who is out looking for a job for the third time in three years - he's divorced and got two kids in college.  The Sheriff auctioned his home for back taxes.
  • My neighborhood that has never seen for sale signs before has ten percent of the houses for sale
  • A successful businessman friend laying off his employees one by one as hope turns to despair
And a President who doesn't understand, doesn't care and has no idea how to help continues to speechify mind numbing leftist cliches.  Why doesn't the ignorant fool shut up?


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