The state of my life

[aadler]

 
Quick list of recent developments:

Good stuff:

1. My son is going to China again
2. My daughter is getting married in four months
3. My current deployment will end soon (back home to family)
4. I’m signed up for this year’s RemixRedux
5. I’m at 15,000 words on my current Buffyfic, and expect to finish it this week

Not-so-good stuff:

1. My wife’s mother is in a nursing home for rehabilitation, and probably will never be able to resume normal living
2. My current deployment will end soon (Army pay stops coming in)
3. While I was out of the country, the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government conspired to limit my freedoms, and exercise over me power I never agreed to grant them

And that’s the way it is.

Comments

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side: Now that the banks are no longer the middlemen in college loans, they can be done cheaper! All the government has to do is set up a shiny new federal bureaucracy of millions of drones to administer the grants fairly, efficiently, and without mounds of red tape --

Wait -- why are you laughing?

[aadler]

The thing is, 1) my son is finishing college without benefit of any financial aid whatsoever, 2) my wife suffers from several debilitating conditions, 3) my daughter had two grandmothers with lupus and so is at significant risk for developing it as well, and 4) I’m closing in on retirement age myself. We’re all among the demographic groups who should be HELPED by this latest development, and yet still I’m appalled by the Obamination that was foisted on us. Even if I actually thought that we personally would benefit from it, I’d still oppose it because I’m convinced it’s bad — horribly bad, catastrophically bad, tyrannically bad — for the nation as a whole … but I never get that far because I don’t believe for a moment that it will give us any of the things its adherents claim it promises.

Heck of a job, Barry.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

You're far from the only one who feels that way. The more people with real need who understand how evil this bill is, the more ammunition we have against it -- but that doesn't make anyone feel any better.

I'm already hearing about businesses that will be losing big money because of this, so -- fewer jobs. Yep. Thanks, Barry.