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I have been gone for a while (last entry 10/23/07)

I have nothing really to add. I am not sure what to post about. My life is pretty drab as this point. Chloe makes it all the better. She is my little chubby cheek princess. Yet the lack of funds is a nightmare. I need money. Lots of it. Yes need is the keyword.

I know I will bitch about money and our system, Maine has some of the highest tax rates and worst job placement in the country

I have never understood why countries award unproductive behavior, and screw the rich. Yes the rich do get screwed. Yes they hide their wealth and do tax write offs, but wouldn't you if you lost 35% of your gross income and assets every year? I think you would. Yes the rich have to pay a third of their wealth to the American government, that means you have a hundred dollars it just went to 65. That is nuts.

I am not against monetary assistance to the needy, but I do believe in stricter regulations, less over head management and more doers for the system. I find that our welfare system is broken. We reward the negligent and rip apart the people that make money.

I am given a hefty sum of money at the end of the week. I have a hundred and seventy dollars removed by the state and federal.

If I work a day less, I lose a hundred and twenty five You see my point? Why does me making more, mean I make less? I do not understand the situation.

It is almost like my country is telling me to not work hard, because they will cover me if I am a failure. This is a frustrating message we give our countrymen. Make more and you will be held to a higher expectation.

Now before people may think I am against the poor. I am against the poor that do the following

• Chain smoking (they are on state assistance and have three kids) <--- if this is any of you, I am not changing my opinion. Think of it as you are borrowing mom and dad to eat, do you then spend that money on junk food? You can chain smoke all you want, but a condition to having money from other tax payers should mean no buying smokes. Mind you, I am talking strictly about the unemployed and non-intact family (baby breeding factories, they exist in Maine in large amounts<---get some condoms).
  
• Drinking beer, drinking lots of it. <---- as above.
  
• Lavish spending at the beginning of each month instead of covering your actual expenses with your state check. While your children walk around in grimy clothing.
  

Yet the mother who works part time, has a special needs child at home, may smoke and drink now and again, that I can understand. She is trying! Or he is! whoever. People who work and still get some help (very hard to do) they are entitled to less control then the people I talked about above.

I have experienced what I have described first hand, I have known the people I speak of as family members, acquaintances, and case studies (my job)

Our country is in a sad state of affairs, but it could be worse.

Middle class get it in the ass. Mind you I am bending over right now. I make too much money for heating assistance... fuck me.