Yesterday’s Feelings
June 18, 2008
Excuse me if I don’t really appear to know about what I’m going to talk about for the majority of this post…because I probably don’t. I honestly can tell you know I never follow politics or read the news paper. Politics bore me - it’s all a show anyway, and newspapers depress me. It seems like every single day there is horrible stuff being reported, things like parents killing their own children and people going crazy and shooting up schools. It makes me sick so that is why I avoid newspapers. Sure, I bet there are some nice stories in there…somewhere. I just don’t have the patience or time to swift through the bad stuff to get to the good stuff…comprenday? (P.S. Is that even how you spell comprenday? I know that’s not even a word so spell check fails to give me the correct answer).
ANYWAYS, today I would like to talk about the economy. Does anybody else feel like it’s suffering? GM plants around here are closing down like crazy, people are loosing jobs and finding jobs keeps getting harder and harder with each passing year. Screw fancy degrees and all that jazz, nobody seems to be having much luck in the job department. Why am I babbling on and on about this? Well, I’m concerned and worried about the track our economy is on. It’s only going to get worse, so what will it be like next year? Will I even be able to put my new college degree to use next year at this time? Or are we seriously teethering on the bridge of another depression?
I think so. I think we are very close to another depression. There are a million things to blame for this, or at least in my opinion. GM plants are shutting down like crazy because the gas prices are so high that nobody can afford all those fancy cars made in Canada, GM cars are generally pigs with gas…and with prices so high who wants to buy cars that just suck back dollar signs like Lindsay Lohan does narcotics? Then all those GM guys who had jobs suddenly don’t have jobs, and the pizza they ordered for their families of 2.5 kids every single Friday suddenly don’t get ordered…so the pizza companies start to suffer. Plus there are all these unemployed people looking for employment, and not enough jobs to go around.
…at least not from what I can see. And it’s really all the gas companies fault in the end, because I bet that we aren’t short on oil supplies. It’s just the government being pigs for money. I hope they realize that by leeching the greater public out of all this money for gas, they’re just screwing themselves over in the end and we’ll have another depression, only worse because all these kids are so used to everything being handed to them that when they suddenly have nothing they’ll probably all go crazy.
If we do have another depression, I really don’t think education is going to mean squat. Do you? I’m not saying I’m not going to go to school in September because I totally am, I’m just bitching and moaning because that’s what I do best. Plus it’s an interesting thing to think about…where we are going to be in a couple years from now.
Plus the year 2012 is coming up super fast. Remember how everybody freaked out over Y2K? Can you just imagine what New Years 2011 is going to be like? Holy crap. Especially with movies like I Am Legend fueling people’s imaginations and fears…
I really think I should get to work on my underground home…like in Blast From The Past. Now they had the right idea…having a bomb shelter underground stalked full of food for a decade or so.
Um ya…so I suppose we can end the really random rant I just had for no apparent reason. Besides, my pasta is ready. Hmm…pasta. If I could, all I would eat would be pasta and McDonalds. Mostly pasta though.
OH P.S!
I totally got hate mail today for the first time ever! I don’t even care if it was from Sarah in an attempt to make me feel better about myself…thanks Sarah! This anonymous sender even used a fake email! How awesome! Here’s the lovely hate email I got from some unknown person who really is a known person named Sarah…
board readerz <stupid@yahoo.com> wrote:
“sarcastica”? really, that’s a stoopid name if i ever heerd one.dude quit being so sarcastica and get on with your life.
jez man.
(tee hee. Hope you know who sent you some awesome hate mail?)
Ya I know. I’m lame because I actually was jealous that Sarah got hate mail and I didn’t…hehe. But only because you KNOW you made it big when you get hate mail…and I’ve never gotten hate mail before.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Haha. Well now you’ve made it big too!
Actually I don’t know why I am getting hate mail as I don’t really get that many visitors I don’t think. I hardly keep track so I actually don’t really know how many come to my blog.
Anyways. I agree with you I think that we are very close to another depression, things in the states are getting much worse. I know that if I wasn’t living with my parents there is no way I could afford to live on my own. Especially living in California where everything is so high priced anyway (I actually don’t know if it’s higher than most places or not..) that it’s really hard to make ends meet. I have a hard time just putting gas in my car sometimes.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Ooh, your first hate mail!
June 19th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Blast From The Past. Now they had the right idea…having a bomb shelter underground stalked full of food for a decade or so.
GREAT idea!! I’ve always wondered what living in a bomb shelter would be like, kinda like camping, but underground?
June 19th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Sarah - I used to keep track, but switching to the new Wordpress kind of messed that up and now nothing loads probably. I hear your gas woes, hehe.
Avitable - Well kind of lol!
Lyla Lou - I agree! I suppose it would kind of be like a vacation from humanity, which I need. Of course I would bring some entertainment…like Booth. Booth is good entertainment hehe. He’d probably go nuts though, he hates confined places and he’s more social than I am!
June 20th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Well, god I really hope it’s not an out and out depression, otherwise we’re screwed. I was thinking more along the lines that we’re falling into a recession. Like the huge one in the 1980’s or 1990’s?
I watched the coverage for the GM plant closing, the employees talking about broken promises and lost seniority. It was so sad, I think one of my friend’s dad was laid off.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Jessica - GM really only has itself to blame for not making efficient enough cars for today’s world. While other major companies were researching ways for more efficient, safer cars…GM was twiddling their thumbs reminding us all that we have to support our “Made in Canada” cars because its a huge source of income. But at this point, its cheaper to get a car from Japan or China and it’s better for the environment AND its cheaper on gas a lot of the time. I still think its sad, but at the same time I won’t have guilt put on me to buy a pig on gas car.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:43 am
I am completely depressed about the gas prices . . . because I have to buy the shit to get to work, and I have to work to buy the shit, and how the fuck am I ever going to be able to raise ONE child if things keep going in the direction they’re going now? Seriously, I’m all fucked up about it. I’m sad and angry and unhappy, and I feel guilty if I drive somewhere that isn’t required, like to Target to walk around and look at things I can’t afford. If I’m not driving to or from work or the grocery store, it’s a foolish waste of fuel. I’m so fucked up.
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
Vulgar Wizard - Carpool? Well at least our planet hasn’t been taken over by souls who invade our bodies and take over our minds, now THAT would suck.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
wait, I’m confused. What’s supposed to happen in 2012?