The most money I've ever had at once was $3000. I have spent most of my life without a lot of money and it makes me feel depressed. I now have a chance to make a halfway decent salary w/ my job promotion. If I can be patient for 4 years, I'll make enough money to buy a few luxuries. The problem is...I want it right now!!! I think it's interesting that the people who say that money doesn't matter to them have 100 times more money than I do. Perhaps it wouldn't matter to them if they traded places with me....

When I hear the news pundits talk about the worldwide economic crisis, it seems unreal. I mean, I look around me and people are driving $30,000 cars and living in $300,000 houses. That's not what a recession/depression looks like. When I see thousands of people sleeping in tents, then I'll believe we're in an economic crisis. What irks me about this situation is: those of you that are making a billion dollars a year, or whatever, sure as hell aren't going to do anything to help the situation.

I missed my golden opportunity to get a home loan when credit was loose. Now credit is tight---well, not unless you own an insurance company or an investment bank. A loan officer at a bank will look at a low wage worker, such as myself, and bust out laughing at the sight of his loan application. And three years ago, people w/o any real money and bad credit got home loans! Well that's just great. How many examples of EXCLUSION do I have to experience in my lifetime? If I want something of value, I have to work and suffer for years & years & years. And the money I get (and it isn't much) is not only from working, but dealing with brainless customers and demanding supervisors. Everyone wants me to be good and flawless while they are careless. Its work and the HUMILIATION of having to work for ***holes that earns my pay. And I can take that to the bank---which is happy to take my money and lend it to people who don't need it! And the same deal goes for the federal government. I have to give up a portion of my paycheck so some rich executive can get a Christmas bonus. Some of these guys would be the envy of Ebenezer Scrooge. They can fill up a whole swimming pool with $100 bills and dive in it. When politicians look at them, they see someone important. When they look at me, they don't see anything. Nothing at all.