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• Friday, December 12, 2008 07:24 PM

  O, damn, drat, I hate the poorhouse!

  Let's see, I don't own a home. I'm in a pretty high taxbracket, so I pay more per dollar earned than most folks. I bust my fucking ass in working around 65 hours per week. My Dad was a blue-collar union guy from the south way back--a yellow dog democrat who trained me up the way I should go. I'm flush with umm...excess/success? I donate to homeless shelters, the aclu, doctors without borders. All my holiday gifts will be given to an adopt a family.

  But somewehre in all that I believe in like...freedom of choice. I got laid off in 2001 (last recession) and fought like a damn biotch to get my career restarted and took a 12 buck an hour job at a shitty company for almost a year to make ends meet. It took time to recover from the last economic collapse.

  So color me a little...oh, I dunno, not weeping over the hardships of life experienced by the auto workers! Or those who chose to have mortgages they couldnt' pay for! I don't even have a damn house, but you can bet your bottom dollar I'm paying for those who DO. I hope I've exploded some of your preconceptions about someone who would oppose not the automobile bailout per se, although I literally *hate* badly managed companies, but the fact that a bunch of folks would dig in their heels and not understand that many of us sacrifice wages sometimes, that life isn't that damn easy, and that this situation sucks! They can take a damn nominal pay cut when they make way more than average.

  But I got an audi s4 so life is just terrific :P

  —Beth_W Read Beth_W's other letters
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