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i am a veteran. a pissed off, on the brink of homelessness veteran.
the difference between me and the crazy guy on the street...a support system.
i hate my country. i miss being in it's military.
wall street disgusts me. corporate greed, fat cats lining their pockets, golden parachutes. fannie may, freddie mac, the dow jones below 9,000. i read about it, but it doesn't really matter. i live paycheck to paycheck and most bills get paid late, so i don't have a mortgage and can't afford to invest in the stock market. these problems are peripheral to me.
i realize things like if i had bought fannie may stock when it first bottomed out at 25 cents a share and sold it three days later when it peaked at $2 i would have octupled my money.
octupled = times by 8; 1000 becomes 8000, 10000 becomes 80000. i couldn't have afforded to risk $100.
someone who was already rich, got richer. someone else lost their house. it pisses me off that i don't have the money to make more, or at the very least a house to lose as a consolation. i'm below the guy that couldn't pay his mortgage...i never even had a chance to get one.
retirement? i'm 27 and i don't have the slightest hope of ever being able to do it. this is something that went the way of the traveling salesman.
i'm not very happy with the world.
i saw bill gates on television the other night being interview by a finance guy. they were talking about how bill has pledged to give approximately $50 Billion to charity. bill then talked about how the economy is going to rebound and americans shouldn't worry. i think if i had that much money i would realize that i was out of touch.
sarah palin is a hockey mom. whatever the fuck that means. i, personally, don't like being referred to as "joe six-pack."
i had plans to register to vote today and then my car broke down. thankfully i live in an obama state, so my vote not being there should only decrease his margin of his victory.
i served 5 years in the military and graduated from the #22 ranked public college in america.
i barely make over minimum wage.
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