A Terrible Debate
I watched the debate last night with several of the fine folks on Twitter. I think we all agree that this was the WORST debate ever. It got so bad, and I’ve not had the funnest week IRL, so I just wrapped up in my comforter and turned the whole thing off with Mabel looking at me curiously.
Listen, I’ve always liked Charles Gibson just fine, but ABC obviously was more interested in asking questions that had absolutely nothing to do with nothing. Ginger wrote last night several things that I agree with wholeheartedly but it was this statement that hit it on the head for me.
Her post is excellent by the way.
Let me tell you…I am a 41-year-old, educated, intelligent, and hard-working woman with good common sense.
I am in worse financial shape than I have ever been in my life. If I didn’t have faith that my God is going to see me through this life, I would be scared to death right now. I already struggle with worrying about how I’m going to provide for my daughter’s expenses when they increase as she gets older, how I’m going to get out of debt, continue to live a decent life without losing my house or not being able to fill my car with a tank of gas as the cost of living increases…
I’m not bitter…I’m outraged!
Listen Mainstream media: Voters want to know about the issues. Our government has asked a country to sacrifice and it has? What next?
What more do you want?
How is electing a president going to help people in terrible economic times? Ginger and I are the same age (well, I’m a year older) and we are going through the same experiences. I’m outraged not at the candidates today but at the elitist, out of touch media who appear to be spoon feeding voters crap. Gas is edging up to $4 bucks a gallon here and I’ve taken to carpooling to keep my budget in line as best I can. I don’t do the things I used to do because I can’t afford it. I have a large family and groceries, I don’t know, are somewhat necessary as children have to eat. What about the people, here in Tennessee, that Aunt B. wrote about last night?
Not only are we outraged, I think folks are getting nervous and a bit scared. What more is there to give?
We are in a war that has lost it’s vision if it ever had one? No one talks about Osama Bin Laden anymore. Isn’t he the reason we started this nightmare in the first place? What about people?
People? Not meaningless static.
Out of touch is what I’m seeing nationally and it just keeps getting worse. I don’t blame the candidates for that huge waste of masturbatory media time last night.
I blame anchors who have become celebrities. The audience booed Charles Gibson and rightfully so.
You want to disenfranchise voters even more?
Yeah, I’m bitter.
After reading you and Ginger, I’m glad I didn’t watch it.
Like you, I’m anxious and nervous about what’s happening in this country right now. If I didn’t work from home, I couldn’t afford gas at all and as it is, I can’t afford the $30 it takes to fill up the tank of my COMPACT car to drive two hours to see my mother on a weekend and back.
Thank goodness my eating habits are horrible anyway and I forget to eat all the time, because I couldn’t afford anymore to eat a whole “real” meal every day. Right now I have about $13 to live on for the rest of this entire month.
I’ve noticed in the last year that just about every single thing I have to buy regularly at the grocery store has increased in price, and quite a few of those items very significantly.
I’ve cut back or cut out so much in the past two years there is just not that much left to cut. I dropped cable two years ago almost. I switched from contract mobile phone to prepaid since I didn’t use it all that much as a rule anyway. I no longer subscribe to any newspapers or magazines and have in a long time. I’ve cut out pretty much all “extras” except the Internet… which I can’t anyway because otherwise I don’t work.
And I’ve gone “cheaper” on many things the past year, some very much to my detriment… like the fact we have been struggling with fleas among the pets for the first time in years because I tried to go cheaper with flea preventative.
And I’m still trying to make some sense, after this week, of why anyone who makes less than $25K or $30K a year should owe ANY tax besides what they already paid throughout the year.
I mean, honestly, about the only option I have left to make anything better at all at this point is move into my mother’s (unfinished) basement. I’m 42 years old. I don’t really want to have to do that, and besides, I can’t afford moving costs anyway!!!
It bugs the crap out of me to hear that no one seemed to ask the candidates who are supposed to be soon leading this country questions about the REAL issues plaguing this country right now.
Oh I should probably add – I have no retirement/pension/etc. ahead of me. I had to spend that long ago to get by. *shrug*
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