“ Look-look-look-look-look, my first pay check! Look at the window, there’s my name! Hi, me!” Rachel continued: “God, isn’t this exciting? I earned this. I wiped tables for it, I steamed milk for it, and it was totally—(opens envelope)—not worth it. Who’s FICA? Why’s he getting all my money? I mean, what- Chandler, look at that!”…
My great-grandfather was an incredible man. He kept his family fed and clothed at the expense of hard physical labor and long hours—for menial pay. To the uninformed observer, he was simply another body in America’s vast sea of blue collar laborers. To those who knew him, he was an honorable, upstanding, hardworking man who…
Yesterday in Part I, we ended our discussion by pointing to the real way out; things that stabilize, heal, and grow our economy. Increasing our credit without any thought to ending the frivolous and thoughtless spending that brings us to the brink every few years will not fix the problem; it will only mask it.…
Dear Visa, I am writing today to request a credit increase. A quick perusal of my account will reveal that I’ve reached my limit. Yes, I know, I’ve done this dozens of times, and I know I haven’t paid my bills. Still, this increase is incredibly important to me; rather, it is VITAL to…
Well boys and girls, we’re at it again. We’re at yet another “white-knuckle” fiscal deadline not unlike the fiscal cliff crisis a few weeks ago; the debt ceiling crisis; the debt ceiling crisis AGAIN, and so it goes. “Sequestration,” as the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it, means “to place (property) in custody especially in sequestration” This word,…
The following is a letter I sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives on January 8th, 2013 in response to his leadership in the Fiscal Cliff Debates. Dear Speaker Boehner, My name is Mary Ramirez. I am 26 years old. The man in the picture is my husband Gilberto, and he is 29.…
The whole country’s ablaze over the impending fiscal cliff, which, as the President summarily rejects GOP proposals (so much for bipartisanship and working across the aisle, right Mr. President? That campaign rhetoric becomes awfully inconvenient post-election), looks to be more and more the reality we will have to face. This is the topic of much…
It’s like banging my head up against a wall with these people. Truly- I cannot think of a better way to describe it. Of course I’m referring to the fiscal cliff debate, and the Democrat push to let the Bush Tax cuts expire for the wealthy. . . or for EVERYONE if they don’t get…
I turned to my husband this morning as we awaited the September unemployment number to be released, and I said, “Mark my words- we are only weeks out from the election; and since no president has EVER been reelected with unemployment over 8%. . . that number WILL be under 8% come heck or high…
How many words in the English language are there to express a sentiment of utter shock? “Stunned” is my current favorite. It shouldn’t “stun” me that the administration partakes in or supports extra-constitutional activities; after all, the past four years have done nothing but clarify the same; but I had a little more faith in…
A Future Free 