Munneh, gobs and gobs of munneh...
Feb. 19th, 2008 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msfledermaus...I was just looking over my W2 today. My boss forgot to give accounting my new addy, so I had to go bug them for another copy. I'm juuuuust under what the co-op I belong to allows for the cheap rent I have, plus the buyout fee we're all setting up in March. It's funny...I make more in a cheapie clip-on tie and fairly unflattering suit coat than I ever made as a middle-manager-copier-wrangler letter-lugging sort of person. Still fairly humble by many standards, but it's enough to keep my glorious Maushaus and pay for chocolate and the occasional sushi purchase.
It just seems so much, written down formally, compared to the paycheck. We all know how that seems to go--bills, food, rent, health insurance, new shoes, and before you know it the pile whittles down pretty fast. But I do okay for the most part. Which is good, because money scares me. I think it scares anybody with any common sense. Will I have enough? How much is enough? Can I have this? Do I need this? What if I get laid off, or mugged or hurt or catch Mad Cow disease and can't make a living anymore?...
Lately there's more money trickling in, just in time to help with the buyout.
I got a check from my union, who gave me back some of my union dues for fighting the good fight as a steward. Also turns out my rental deposit counts toward the buyout, too, which is nice. I have some projects that are finishing up which means a little more cash for me, stuff like that. And then of course there's the Great Bribe...
In many ways I am royally pissed off about Our Beloved El Presidente's hot idea to toss us some greenbacks. Funny enough, I was reading about Caligula's freebie offerings to the poor at the Roman Coliseum and thinking, "Huh, at least the poor got something from that particular despot." when MPR came on with the news. I was sort of amused at first. The Bush administration has been robbing us all blind for the better part of a decade, and now that things are catching up with them, they toss a little money at it to make it all better. And of course if you've lost your job or are retired or disabled or something, you're apparently out of luck on the great giveaway...
I'm still taking the money; I have to. Everybody pretty much has to. My heating bill went up just like everybody else's. But I know it for what it is: a bribe. Not even a particularly good or skillful bribe. I'll probably donate some of it and put the rest to what I've saved for the buyout. But this administration hasn't bought itself out of anything. Not even close...
D'ohhhhhhh... I wanted to write some flip thing about my finances, and it's turned into a rant about politics. Sorry, folks, my raised-by-hippies instincts took over for a second, and I had to do the 'I'm against the Man, man!" speech before it went back into hibernation...
It just seems so much, written down formally, compared to the paycheck. We all know how that seems to go--bills, food, rent, health insurance, new shoes, and before you know it the pile whittles down pretty fast. But I do okay for the most part. Which is good, because money scares me. I think it scares anybody with any common sense. Will I have enough? How much is enough? Can I have this? Do I need this? What if I get laid off, or mugged or hurt or catch Mad Cow disease and can't make a living anymore?...
Lately there's more money trickling in, just in time to help with the buyout.
I got a check from my union, who gave me back some of my union dues for fighting the good fight as a steward. Also turns out my rental deposit counts toward the buyout, too, which is nice. I have some projects that are finishing up which means a little more cash for me, stuff like that. And then of course there's the Great Bribe...
In many ways I am royally pissed off about Our Beloved El Presidente's hot idea to toss us some greenbacks. Funny enough, I was reading about Caligula's freebie offerings to the poor at the Roman Coliseum and thinking, "Huh, at least the poor got something from that particular despot." when MPR came on with the news. I was sort of amused at first. The Bush administration has been robbing us all blind for the better part of a decade, and now that things are catching up with them, they toss a little money at it to make it all better. And of course if you've lost your job or are retired or disabled or something, you're apparently out of luck on the great giveaway...
I'm still taking the money; I have to. Everybody pretty much has to. My heating bill went up just like everybody else's. But I know it for what it is: a bribe. Not even a particularly good or skillful bribe. I'll probably donate some of it and put the rest to what I've saved for the buyout. But this administration hasn't bought itself out of anything. Not even close...
D'ohhhhhhh... I wanted to write some flip thing about my finances, and it's turned into a rant about politics. Sorry, folks, my raised-by-hippies instincts took over for a second, and I had to do the 'I'm against the Man, man!" speech before it went back into hibernation...
