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Name: Gizmo
Country: United States
State: Missouri
Birthday: 8/18/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: Anime. Anime. Manga. Being a DJ, YEAH METAL SHOW!!. Writing. Anime some more. Reading more Manga. Reading Fanfiction. Talking to people. OKAY I HAVE A SAD LIFE!!!
Expertise: What kind of question is this? I would like to know, seriously? I mean someone could really take this wrongly. But that is just b/c I am henati. Ah, well. I digress. I suppose I am good at writing and singing.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
11/24/2003
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| So yeah I haven't posted here in a LOOOONNNGGG Time. Sorry about that. I have been incredibly busy w/ school and work. However, if you want to catch up w/ my I am on livejournal. Name is BuddhaFrog same as here. Hope everyone Had a wonderous Easter. And I hope everyone is doing well.
I had to post this on here specially for Chris and Marissa.
The Era of Exploitation
By BOB HERBERT
Congress is in recess and the press has gone berserk over the Terri Schiavo case. So very little attention is being paid to pending budget proposals that are scandalously unfair, but that pretty accurately reflect the kind of country the U.S. has become.
President Bush believes in an "ownership" society, which means that except for the wealthy, you're on your own. The president's budget would cut funding for Medicaid, food stamps, education, transportation, health care for veterans, law enforcement, medical research and safety inspections for food and drugs. And, of course, it contains big new tax cuts for the wealthy.
These are the new American priorities. Republicans will tell you they were ratified in the last presidential election. We may be locked in a long and costly war, and federal deficits may be spiraling toward the moon, but the era of shared sacrifices is over. This is the era of entrenched exploitation. All sacrifices will be made by working people and the poor, and the vast bulk of the benefits will accrue to the rich.
F.D.R. would have stared slack-jawed at this madness. Even his grand Social Security edifice is under assault by the vandals of the G.O.P.
While the press and the public are distracted by one sensational news story after another - Terri Schiavo, Michael Jackson, steroids in baseball, etc. - the president and his party have continued their extraordinary campaign to undermine the programs that were designed to fend off destitution and provide a reasonable foundation of economic security for those not blessed with great wealth.
President Bush has proposed more than $200 billion worth of cuts in domestic discretionary programs over the next five years, and cuts of $26 billion in entitlement programs. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which analyzed the president's proposal, said:
"Figures in the budget show that child-care assistance would be ended for 300,000 low-income children by 2009. The food stamp cut would terminate food stamp aid for approximately 300,000 low-income people, most of whom are low-income working families with children. Reduced Medicaid funding most certainly would cause many states to cut their Medicaid programs, increasing the ranks of the uninsured."
Education funding would be cut beginning next year, and the cuts would grow larger in succeeding years. Food assistance for pregnant women, infants and children would be cut. Funding for H.I.V. and AIDS treatment would be cut by more than half a billion dollars over five years. Support for environmental protection programs would be sharply curtailed. And so on.
Conservatives insist the cuts are necessary to get the roaring federal budget deficit under control. But they have trouble keeping a straight face when they tell that story. Laden with tax cuts, the president's proposal will result in an increase, not a decrease, in the deficit. Shared sacrifice is anathema to the big-money crowd.
The House has passed a budget that is similar to the president's, except it contains even deeper cuts in programs that affect the poor. In the Senate, a handful of Republicans balked at the cuts proposed for Medicaid. Casting their votes with the Democrats, they were able to eliminate the cuts from the Senate budget proposal. The Senate also added $5.4 billion in education funding for 2006.
All the budgets contain more than $100 billion in tax cuts over the next five years, which makes a mockery of the G.O.P.'s budget-balancing rhetoric. When Congress returns from its Easter recess, the Republican leadership will try to reconcile the differences in the various proposals. Whatever happens will be bad news for ordinary Americans. Big cuts are coming.
The advances in areas like education, antipoverty programs, health services, environmental protection and food safety were achieved after struggles that, in some cases, took many decades. To slide backward now (hurting millions of people in the process) because of a desire to siphon funds from those programs and hand them over as tax cuts to the wealthiest members of our society, is obscene.
This is not a huge national story. It's just the way things are. It was Herbert Hoover who said: "You know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They're too damn greedy."
It is a scary how right it is...
Love and Peace?
Tiff | | |
| Happy Ground Hog's Day!!!
Right...
Well work and school are going alright and I am still reading a lot. But now there is the matter of my tooth.
About a week ago my left bottom canine? I don't know if that is right, started hurting. So I go to the dentist, he was able to get me in real quick. So I go to the dentist and he tells me that while my two wisdom teeth on the right side are fine the bottom left one is not. In fact it is trying to uproot the molar that is in front of it. And it has a cavity. This is causing all of my teeth to be pushed forward and causing the tooth that hurts (this is the reason why it hurts) to have more pressure on it that it should and to hit my top canine. They can't just pull the offending wisdom tooth out, they have to actually cut it out. YAY!! :P
Well the problem is that I don't have dental insurance at the moment. (Walmart rules, another story) So I tell them that I can wait b/c he temporarly took care of the problem. (He ground the canine where it was hitting) So I go on my way. Well this past weekend the pain was back w/ a vengence.
At about 10:30pm (I was at work mind you) I took 3 tylonal. At Midnight I took 2 Excendrin Migrane. At 2:30 I took 3 more. At 7:00am I went home and took a couple more. I slept and when I woke up at about noonish I took nothing. The problem w/ Excendrin Migrane is that is has caffinene in it. So I was wide awake until 4:00pm. This is when the pain came back, so I took 3 Aleve and went to sleep.
Well as you can imagine I wanted to take care of this problem. I called the dentist on Monday. The soonest they can get me in? March 7 at 2:00pm. Yeah I was happy, not. Well they put me on a cancellation list and gave me a prescription for Darvicet. Which I am happy to say is working for the most part.
Hope everyone else is having better dental luck than myself.
Oh by the way. I am requesting the 25 and 26 of this month off. That is a Friday and Saturday. So I am hoping to come up then. It should be fun.
Love and Peace,
Tiff | | |
| It isn't happy that is for sure.
So since I took two days off (Mon/Tues) for my tooth which didn't happen I had to work last night. Which wouldn't have been so bad except I had class from 6-9 and then went to work. I am body decided that it didn't need sleep yesterday so I was up from about 7:30am (yesterday) to about 7:00am this morning. Toward the end of my shift my mother comes in (oh, my mother and grandmother both work at the same walmart I do) and tells me my cousin Tammy died. She was about 2-3 years older than my mother. She apparently died from a heartattack. I was in shock. I still am I think. Well my grandmother calls work about 5 minutes later and tells me (well mom had already told me) and then says that they want me to sing at the funeral. Which I agreed too. I got to go home early and went to sleep.
Here is the thing. I was suppose to be in class at 10:30 this morning. I knew I wouldn't be able to go, but I really needed to go just long enough to drop off a take home test we had. Well that didn't happen. I emailed my professor and I am hoping she will understand.\
I have to work tonight too. Live is just a big party here in Auxvasse. :P
OH AND when I got home I discovered my filter on my fish tank quit working and my fish were gasping for air. I got it fixed though and they are still alive and doing well.
So there you have it.
Love and Peace,
Tiff | | |
| Hey,
Okay so I did it again! I haven't updated. Sorry. Ummm. Got my car fixed and have started classes. Besided that not much else. I am still working overnights 40 hours a week.
Saw Jesse yesterday and he gave me a general update. I have seen a few ppl I knew from High School but most of my social contact has been my Grandparents, my fish (named Bert and Mac, and my Algie Eater is Betty) and my pilliow (and don't take that the wrong way you sickos!).
I have been trying to get my computer fixed too. Geeves finally decided to go ahead and eat the internet, right when I got my DSL up and running. So yeah that is about the interesting extent of my life.
I am going to be changing the colors on xanga too b/c it really hurts my eyes.
Love and Peace,
Tiff | | |
| HELLLOOOOO!!! Jesus Christ I haven't updated on here in forever. Well I am usually updating my LJ so that might be why. Buddhafrog same as here if you are interested. I have no idea what the heck is going on w/ some of you. Most of you I do know b/c you have a LJ and/or I talk to you on the phone. But for those of you who I don't talk to on a regular basis here is the run down.
I am working at Walmart in Mexico, overnights, I hate/am sick of Christmas b/c I either cashier or I am stocking Christmas Candy/Toys.
I am working six nights a week until Christmas is over. Then I go back to five nights.
January I am going back to school. I am going to the MACC campus in Mexico. I will start classes the 10th. I will still be working overnights. I am taking Sociology and American History to 1865. It is only six credit hours so I should be okay. One of the classes only meets once a week.
Ummm, yeah, my car decided it hates me. Won't start/grinds when it starts.
My grandfather has been sick, then got better, then got sick, then got better. Today he is good. Tomorrow who knows.
Christmas is just going to be Christmas. Nothing much going on.
Strongbad is awesome. And I have been reading. That is always good. I have read part of 1984, and Interview w/ a Vampire, (read all of that), I have read the Republican Noise Machine by David Brock, and Dude, Where's My Country? by Micheal Moore. I am right now reading Al Fraken's book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. It is a REALLY good book, I highly suggest it. I am trying to teach myself Japanese and possibly Vietamense (sp?)
Besides that nothing much. That is the basic gist mind you not the detailed version. That I am saving for the Made for Television movie: WalMart: The Enslavement Continues.
Well Love and Peace to you all,
Tiff | | |
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