Frustrating Things

1. I should actually be ok this month regarding money, but I feel like I shouldn’t have to worry so much. When will I really begin rebuilding my savings? I usually feel like I’ve been and am being way too frivolous with my money, but I don’t really feel like that anymore. It’s just that things come up, like a $200 dentist visit or a $500 trip to New Orleans for my Dad’s birthday or the $150 I (now needlessly) spent on dating websites in January. Argh!

Seriously though, this is all relative. I am so grateful to have steady income and job security, and I get affected listening to the radio go on and on about how awful things are in the world right now.

2. On the drive home tonight I actually started feeling ill thinking about what the elite class has done to our country and our world. They just kept taking and taking with no apparent thought to the future benefit (let alone the current state) of society. They’re bitching about a $500,000/year salary cap? I understand that a 90% pay cut is enough to make anyone feel shock, but how inconsiderate does one have to be to say in public that they’re shocked? Have they no concern whatsoever for their (former) employees, for the families and lives that they’ve destroyed?

And then there’s the national stimulus package barely making it through the Senate and the fact that we still don’t have a state budget. How obstinate, narrow minded and/or selfish/self-centered must these politicians be? Why must they persist when it is so obviously directly damaging our society?