May.11.2008 at 1:33 pm | joshua
…gas isn’t funny anymore
$3.78
i hear some places are as high as $3.99
yet, our leadership says things like “four dollars a gallon? i hadn’t heard that.” like it is the most atrocious idea ever presented. by the way, that’s a direct quote from dubya himself.
here’s the thing. i don’t know who to blame on why gas is so expensive. what i do know, is i don’t like the oil companies making record profits, and i don’t like our president being in bed with the oil companies. i don’t like the de-valuing of the us dollar (i think i’m finally starting to understand, addison), and i don’t like our economy.
the problem with knowledge, is that it seems the more i learn about the world around me, the more depressed i get.
for example. ryanne and i are thinking about having a child sometime soon. we used to say “i don’t know if we’ll be able to afford a child” and people would laugh at us and say “you’ll NEVER be able to afford a child” as if it was some big joke. well, i am not laughing anymore. gas prices are sky rocketing, utilities continue to rise, we’re still in debt up to our eyeballs, and i’m not getting a huge raise anytime soon. it’s beginning to seem less like affordability being an issue to having a child and more like responsibility. i honest to goodness don’t see things turning around anytime soon, and i don’t know if i am in a position to raise a child in a way that i would expect/want too.
when is america going to wake up and realize that credit is the freakin’ devil? yes. i mean it. we spend more than we have, and then we cry when the chickens come home to roost. it’s a mess out there, and honest to god, i’m scared. i don’t know what’s next, but it’s terrifying. i’m already trying to figure out how to cut back on driving, which is going to include getting up stupid early in the morning to go to work (4:30am) with my wife so we can carpool.
and that’s just step one. step two has a lot to do with becoming completely anti-social and never leaving the house.
let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.
Good post, my friend. I especially echo your sentiments concerning how we live on credit. One’s value isn’t a reflection of their assets anymore, its a reflection of how much they can afford to pay monthly. House payment, car payment, insurance payment, etc..
What happened to the common sense that states that we only spend what we have? I think its a symptom of an increasingly immature culture.