Reading that USPS $1.2 MM blunder
They did what?! Spent how much?! My curlers are about to pop out!
I came online today, to check the site and the news, and about fell out of my chair. In 1 post I matched nearly 2-3 weeks worth of visitors. I was floored.
Which article was it? Post Office Buys $1.2 Million Dollar Home - sourced from CNN. That tells me right off the back at how much people are outraged over this blatant excess. Further than that, people are outraged and blatant excess period.
You can see it all around. People complain about banks buying jets and stadium naming rights (even though naming rights are really and advertising move, and companies need to advertise). The lashing auto execs got for flying into Washington in private jets with their pockets hanging out and shaking their cup. The people who still have that coveted disposable income either not spending it or doing it in stealth.
We have a right to be upset though. Over 12 million Americans are unemployed, and millions of others are underemployed. Millions of people are struggling to make it through this time, while others are still living the life. It can drive a person mad. Why should we starve while they are jet-setting, making it with billions of taxpayer bailout funds? Can’t we get a break? Heck, whatever happened to philanthropy? When we need the charitable help the most, it all dries up.
It’s a sickening cycle, but we can’t let it get us down. We are defined not by our strength in the good times, but for our strength in the bad. I can attest to far too many sleepless nights worrying about what happens next. Everytime my manager tells me to meet him when I get in, I get the jitters and thoughts start racing through my head of what am I going to do if I get laid off. What scares me is I don’t really know, and I’ve always got a plan. I’d get through it I guess, which is the attitude I need to get by. Thankfully it is always him asking me to pick up some extra work. But my nerves can only stretch so thin.
Remember that we are only guaranteed 2 things in life: death and taxes. Everything else we have to work for, to fight for. And if it isn’t worth fighting for, it isn’t worth it.
