Hell yeah, I'm bitter....

[RazBerryBeret]

and I seriously don't know how YOU could say you're not.
the current administration has

1) run up our National Debt to over 9 TRILLION DOLLARS
and it is increasiing 1.5 billion dollars a day. Each citizen of the United States
(man, woman AND child's) share of this is $30,648 (TODAY)

2) Isn't concerned that the US owes China (a communist country with a terrible history of civil rights) over 571 BILLION DOLLARS
and 405 BILLION DOLLARS to Japan

3) signed an Executive Order that authorized these abusive interrogation methods which included:
strangulation, putting lit cigarettes into detainees’ ears, sleep deprivation, beatings, and chaining detainees in a fetal position for 18-24 hours or more and of course dogs and electric shock and water boarding.

4) requested illegal wiretapping of any American citizen at any time. seeks retro-active immunity to phone companies
that complied.

5) Led America into a war dishonestly. A war that there is no easy way out. A war that has cost over 4,000 American Lives and
$498,389,700,000....or 275 MILLION DOLLARS A DAY...McCain has said the "insurgency" could continue for 100 years.
how do you think the US can support that?

6) By leading the war into Iraq, we weakened our fight to find Osama Bin Laden, who masterminded and
attack on US soil which took over 3,000 american lives.

7) Managed to "lose" 9 BILLION DOLLARS in Iraq--paid out without contract or supervision. Most likely being
used to fuel the insurgency that is killing our soldiers.

8) Managed to "lose track of" 7,002 pistols, 3,230 assault rifles, 2,389 rocket-propelled grenade
launchers, 887 machine guns and1 90,000 AK-47 assault rifles.

9) set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period in history.

10) set all time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market

11) Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in History.

12) Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in history.

13) cut healthcare benefits for war veterans (that takes guts!)

14) have given us the highest gasoline prices in US history AND refuse to use the national reserves as past presidents
have done in the past.

ok, there's more, but I want to stop there.
But again, how can you NOT be bitter?

[krispos42]

1. But... but... but...

another primary school opened up in Iraq today!

Why do you people only see the bad??? :cry:









:-)

[RazBerryBeret]

4. Oh yeah!

happy thoughts, happy thoughts!

[krispos42]

15. My place did layoffs about a month ago

Last night, they announced that most of the plant was going to a 32-hour workweek, including the office types(!). My department was spared, so 4 people will be working full time. The other 80 or so? Four days a week.

There's suppose to be stuff coming. The owner was optimistic about it. Didn't want to do any more layoffs to retain the "core" of the plant, and all that. But... it's his job to be optimistic.


I still need to get a part-time job. The child support is what's doing it. :-(

[RazBerryBeret]

16. Sorry for your company..

I worked for the advertising department of an off-price retailer, sales kept getting worse and worse-they announced a year ago that they were putting the company up for sale. they had trouble selling it, but they did sell it to a newly formed "holding company"...oddly one of the principles of the Holding company was the original owner! HOW does that work? My department was whittled down over the year to about 1/4 the size. I'd gotten an offer for a 6 month freelance contract. I jumped ship before I was pushed. (my severance wasn't going to be very good anyhow). I now have a job that I enjoy, but it may come to an end at the end of this month, and I'm now responsible for insurance for myself and my kids.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Hillary thinks Americans are just fine and dandy.

Thankfully Obama came out and spoke the truth. Bitterness is VERY real and anyone who doesn't acknowledge that shouldn't be president. It's so refreshing someone like Obama speaks the truth.

[RazBerryBeret]

8. And THAT is what is bringing us down....

smile, everything's ok...whistle while you work....don't look at the man behind the curtain...it will only hurt for a second...
whatever! we are in trouble and we need a way out! color me bitter.

[2rth2pwr]

3. Just reading that makes me want to run to the church and get baptized.

[RazBerryBeret]

5. do you have to be baptized

to be bitter? sorry, guess I don't get it.

[2rth2pwr]

11. Reading that made me so bitter that the only way to deal with

this dreadful feeling is to reach out for some sort of crutch.

[RazBerryBeret]

12. ahh... I got it...

I guess in my faith you're only baptized once....it would take more than that for this feeling...

guess that's why vodka is my crutch (oops, too much personal info!!)...

[juno jones]

18. Hee, hee!

Beer is mine.
Solidarity, sister. In our jaded world, it sounds trite to some, but the knowledge that others are there, that what effects one, affects all is important.

Good luck with the work sitch. At this point I'm doing OK, the crazy little inexpensive cajun restaurant I bake in has survived a year and even made a modest, yet significant profit. Mr. Feb just got employed in his trade (silkscreener) after a year.
Talent will out. Sounds like you got a good chance. :)

Baptism, LOL, my mom always wanted to baptize my son out of some kind of protestant guilt. I asked her what I would (as a crazy heathen, mind you) have to do. I wanted to make her happy, natch. She says, 'You have to promise to educate him in christianity'. 'But, Mom,' I protest,'I'm not a christian. If you want to do this, I give you permission. What's a little water going to hurt? But I cannot promise to raise him christian.' She never did it. He at seventeen considers himself to be christian, but thanks to mom and grandma a conscious and enlightened one.

What's baptism gots to do wid it anyways? :crazy:

PS: my son is seventeen and I'll be damned if he becomes cannonfodder. Not just the kids against the draft this time, but the parents as well.

[Jensen]

6. Maybe you should...it might clear your head!

[countingbluecars]

7. This week in Iraq

makes me bitter. While Bush, McCain, and fellow warmongers talked about success in Iraq, many died.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080412/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[RazBerryBeret]

10. exactly, it's sobering...

I have 2 young sons, they will draft age before the next two presidential terms are over. looking towards a possible McCain presidency scares the hell out of me. war with Iran scares the hell out of me.

[elizm]

9. I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore! Is that bitter?

I think so. And Obama is the ONLY candidate who is going to change a damn thing. He is our last hope.

[juno jones]

13. I'm bitter too. I've been that way for way too long.

Been bitter since 1980 when my industrial hometown became a ghost town and a den of hopeless alkies who spent their days drinking and rotating in and out of jail. Been bitter since I've had to travel hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles to other states so I could get a service job, only to be treated badly and told (to my face, BTW) "You're the problem, all you people coming in from other states and taking our jobs. You should be grateful we let you work." Bitter that my children have less chance for education and advancement than I did, even though they're far smarter and much more motivated than myself. Bitter that my parents, who were the most liberal and honest people I've ever known spending their professional lives in public service, died horrible deaths from cancer due to enviromental/workplace exposure to known toxins. Bitter that I am seeing homeless people downtown who are obviously older retirees who have been thrown away by our society and know that I face that fate when I can no longer slave away.

The only hope I've had in almost thirty years is a guy named Obama who actually addresses the fact that we do not trust our government and are angry at what it has done in our name.

I think bitter is an appropriate emotion to feel at this time.

[RazBerryBeret]

14. Amen, sister!

and applause.

"...know that I face that fate when I can no longer slave away"
and that says it all!

[juno jones]

17. Thank you

She curtsies, work boots and all.

Welcome to this crazy, maddening and yet hopeful place.