Friday, June 24, 2005
oprah, teachers, and why i'm cranky
today i am very busy at work and a bit cranky. i am on my lunch and have taken this time to vent. allow me to elaborate:
i read the paper this morning and there are two fine examples of how good people are shit on and idiots get rewarded. read on >
the 1st one was an article how the teacher's union is bitching that in the last 3-4 years teachers salaries have not kept up with inflation and this is an atrocity because of the important work they do and how hard it is to find good teachers and that most are forgoing teaching for other more lucrative careers. well boo friggin hoo. welcome to the lower middle class or as we like to call ourselves, upper class poor people. that's america people where insurance premiums go up way more than the average 3% raise. add that to the cost of gas and utilities and every other thing and guess what? thought i make more salary than i did 3 yrs ago, i take home less and what i take home doesn't go nearly as far (my friggin property taxes went up 75%! 75%!!!) that's more than the raise i got this year, and now i have a kid and a wife who doesn't work in the summer. this is a serious matter in our country and no one cares.
the 2nd i read on the same page as the 1st (keep in mind this is page 3 of the paper.)
anyway oprah fat-ass winfrey was recently outraged and embarrassed when she went shopping at this store that had been closed to the general public for a private event. the article said when she showed up at the shop with her entourage they were denied entry though she should clearly see others in the shop shopping she didn't understand why she couldn't. she was quoted as saying the experience was humiliating. later the shop owner or whatever issued a public apology and ass kissing and i'm like "yeah and if that were me and not queen O, not only would no one give a shit, i don't even think i would care that much. the gall of rich celebrities! now she is going to devote a whole show to this? the umitigated gall of this woman! get over yourself already. and the fact that her audience will oooo and ahhh about this makes me sick.
i read the paper this morning and there are two fine examples of how good people are shit on and idiots get rewarded. read on >
the 1st one was an article how the teacher's union is bitching that in the last 3-4 years teachers salaries have not kept up with inflation and this is an atrocity because of the important work they do and how hard it is to find good teachers and that most are forgoing teaching for other more lucrative careers. well boo friggin hoo. welcome to the lower middle class or as we like to call ourselves, upper class poor people. that's america people where insurance premiums go up way more than the average 3% raise. add that to the cost of gas and utilities and every other thing and guess what? thought i make more salary than i did 3 yrs ago, i take home less and what i take home doesn't go nearly as far (my friggin property taxes went up 75%! 75%!!!) that's more than the raise i got this year, and now i have a kid and a wife who doesn't work in the summer. this is a serious matter in our country and no one cares.
the 2nd i read on the same page as the 1st (keep in mind this is page 3 of the paper.)
anyway oprah fat-ass winfrey was recently outraged and embarrassed when she went shopping at this store that had been closed to the general public for a private event. the article said when she showed up at the shop with her entourage they were denied entry though she should clearly see others in the shop shopping she didn't understand why she couldn't. she was quoted as saying the experience was humiliating. later the shop owner or whatever issued a public apology and ass kissing and i'm like "yeah and if that were me and not queen O, not only would no one give a shit, i don't even think i would care that much. the gall of rich celebrities! now she is going to devote a whole show to this? the umitigated gall of this woman! get over yourself already. and the fact that her audience will oooo and ahhh about this makes me sick.
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With any luck, your property taxes will begin to go down after the real-estate bubble pops in the Spring of 2006.
Don't believe those who say there isn't a bubble. How it's different this time. That's what they always say during the peak of a bubble.
The magazine 'The Economist' (www.economist.com) recently published an article called "The Global Housing Boom". Did you know that in Japan, a country with much, much less land and a much, much higher concentration of people, real-estate prices have been in decline for 14 years? Yes, 14 years. If you had bought a house in Japan 14 years ago, you would still be in the hole by 40%.
Don't think it can't happen in the USA. It can, and it will. And when it does, your property taxes will dive just like the real-estate market. So with any luck, your real-estate taxes and my real-estate taxes will tumble...
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Don't believe those who say there isn't a bubble. How it's different this time. That's what they always say during the peak of a bubble.
The magazine 'The Economist' (www.economist.com) recently published an article called "The Global Housing Boom". Did you know that in Japan, a country with much, much less land and a much, much higher concentration of people, real-estate prices have been in decline for 14 years? Yes, 14 years. If you had bought a house in Japan 14 years ago, you would still be in the hole by 40%.
Don't think it can't happen in the USA. It can, and it will. And when it does, your property taxes will dive just like the real-estate market. So with any luck, your real-estate taxes and my real-estate taxes will tumble...
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