People read blogs to be inspired. They are looking for distractions in a stressful day and, in general, would rather laugh than get angry. Ack! I'm about to lose about a slew of regular readers, but what the heck. A blogger has to vent once in a while.
This crappy economy is taking its toll on me. The depressing statistics keep coming out: kids and families aren't being served, the unemployment rate keeps rising, middle aged people are really screwed. Then there's the personal stories of economic woes that I hear every day. The teacher who can't find work. The unemployed PhD who has no transferable skills. The guy who owns the bagel shop in town killed
himself, because of financial and romantic problems.
Violence against women continues. A couple of weeks ago, our house cleaners' daughter was
strangled by her crazy boyfriend. The boyfriend strangled her with a rope in the car and then drove around with her for hours as he slashed his own wrists. The cops eventually corned him, but not before he smashed up a police cruiser. The cops got back at him by taking the guy out of solitary and leaving him for the afternoon with the general population. They turned their backs and let the guy get stomped by the other prisoners.
Jonah's school has hit a whole new
low. It's day 15, and some of his teachers have yet to start working with
the kids. Those teachers are paid more than my hard-working SIL who teaches in a private school. Why aren't other parents complaining? Are they too stressed out
about their financial situation to care?
I'm raising my kids in an
environment where a handful of people will get premium educations and
super high salary jobs, while the rest struggle to pay a mortgage. I can either deal with this situation by setting up a family compound
in Montana or by drinking a lot. Kegger at my house this weekend.
Even as government should be the first place that people go to complain about schools or the allocation of money, they don't get involved. They don't attend town council meetings, read the papers, or call officials to state their views. The apathy is overwhelming and completely alien to me. That's why we end up with situations like this.
I should write a happy, inspirational post this morning, because that's what people like to read, but I'm filled with anger this morning. I need to go to the gym to work off all this negativity.
Apt. 11d 
People read blogs to be inspired. They are looking for distractions in a stressful day and, in general, would rather laugh than get angry. Ack! I'm about to lose about a slew of regular readers, but what the heck. A blogger has to vent once in a while.
This crappy economy is taking its toll on me. The depressing statistics keep coming out: kids and families aren't being served, the unemployment rate keeps rising, middle aged people are really screwed. Then there's the personal stories of economic woes that I hear every day. The teacher who can't find work. The unemployed PhD who has no transferable skills. The guy who owns the bagel shop in town killed
himself, because of financial and romantic problems.
Violence against women continues. A couple of weeks ago, our house cleaners' daughter was
strangled by her crazy boyfriend. The boyfriend strangled her with a rope in the car and then drove around with her for hours as he slashed his own wrists. The cops eventually corned him, but not before he smashed up a police cruiser. The cops got back at him by taking the guy out of solitary and leaving him for the afternoon with the general population. They turned their backs and let the guy get stomped by the other prisoners.
Jonah's school has hit a whole new
low. It's day 15, and some of his teachers have yet to start working with
the kids. Those teachers are paid more than my hard-working SIL who teaches in a private school. Why aren't other parents complaining? Are they too stressed out
about their financial situation to care?
I'm raising my kids in an
environment where a handful of people will get premium educations and
super high salary jobs, while the rest struggle to pay a mortgage. I can either deal with this situation by setting up a family compound
in Montana or by drinking a lot. Kegger at my house this weekend.
Even as government should be the first place that people go to complain about schools or the allocation of money, they don't get involved. They don't attend town council meetings, read the papers, or call officials to state their views. The apathy is overwhelming and completely alien to me. That's why we end up with situations like this.
I should write a happy, inspirational post this morning, because that's what people like to read, but I'm filled with anger this morning. I need to go to the gym to work off all this negativity.