Oh, yeah. That's timely.
\\Well, one of the local papers contacted me to get permission to print the letter to the editor that I sent in last week, urging people to consider voting for Wes Clark in the Arizona Primary. WHICH WAS HELD LAST TUESDAY!\\
Oh, well. I guess I can just let that ride. It won't hurt anything now. Arsehats.
I put together a quick and dirty tax return today, and discovered that we owe over $5000 to the IRS this year. Yes, that is over five thousand dollars. I have come to the conclusion that someone else should do our taxes, and we should pray to the deity of choice for mercy, since that is over three months of pay.
We were both so upset by the doom hanging over us, that we decided to leave the house and go to Denny's for dinner.
God, though. I am so tired of being poor and in debt. We barely live, and we aren't getting any better at it. We live in an apartment, which is ok but not nice, in a similar neighborhood. We drive a mid-size American car with no extras: no alloy wheels, no power windows or door locks, no sport package or any of that crap. We buy generic brand foods and the cheapest of everything. We buy clothes at outlet stores and discount places like Wal*Mart or Target. Neither one of us has paid for a haircut since July; he has cut his own hair for as long as I've known him. We don't live beyond any normal means. Yet, we continue to languish in debt and near-poverty. We have no hope of buying a fancy car or owning, even, a modest house. We never get ahead.
I'm tired of living without any hope. I'm tired of medical care being a luxury we can't afford. I'm tired of knowing that I am carrying around a growing pile of debt that exceeded 60 thousand the last time I looked at it. I want to be able to travel to Europe. I want to be able to study in school and earn some ridiculously high degree.
This week, I heard about a guy getting fired because his credit was bad. This isn't some urban legend, either. It was a guy I knew, and the company was one that contacted my office to notify us that they had done it. They escorted him out of the building as if he were some criminal because their background check had uncovered a poor credit score. He wasn't working at a bank, or a place where he would be handling finances, either. Just some place. And they fired him.
It sickens me that employers can fire a person because of the credit rating. Lord only knows the mitigating factors that lead to bad credit. I don't think for a moment that bad credit is synonymous with theivery. I don't believe that a person with bad credit is more or less likely to steal from an employer because of it. I think that is absolute bullshit.
My credit is shit. So is my ex-husband. **THE TWO FACTS ARE RELATED.**
Fuck.
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