The links aren’t working, so cut and past the sites.

The first biggest scam is this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090220/ap_on_bi_ge/bank_fees_jobless_benefits_12

This is true, because my DH is receiving unemployment benefits, and they sent us a Visa debit card from the bank of Illinois. Who the heck has ever heard of that bank? Maybe it’s in Springfield, but it’s certainly not around here. So every time I use it as a debit, or take money out, it’s gonna cost me money. We are going to spend some time online trying to figure out how to have our money mailed as a check, because I don’t feel the goverment should allow big companies to make money off of our benefits. Visa is going to make millions, if not billions, off of this recession. Off of the unfortunate. It makes me mad.

The second is this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090220/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/lahood_vehicle_mileage_tax_3

Another prime example of privacy lost. They are trying to tell us that our fears are unfounded. That’s a crock. I live 35 miles away from my work, and do you think my employer will take this kind of tax into consideration when it comes time for a raise? Nope. Many people in Small Town America must drive to find good paying jobs. So if they have a job, they’ll lose money by going to work. And if they are laid off, they’ll lose money because big companies are sucking money from their unemployment benefits. And guess what? NO one who can stop this crap cares. If Obama really wanted to help the common man, this crap wouldn’t happen. It’s one of his appointee-buddies from this most corrupt state of Illinois recommending the miles-driven tax. People are so bedazzeled with Obama, it’s a damn shame he doesn’t don a hero suit. Their bedazzeled eyes are so glazed over people aren’t seeing our freedoms slipping away.

The other thing that has me irate is the attacks on the “octo-mom”. People who, mind you, don’t even know her, are trying to get the California CPS to take her kids away. Since when does everyone get to have a say in a person’s life? People are giving her death threats because of her decision to have those kids! Would anyone have cared if only 2, 3, or 4 of those embryos implanted? NO. Guess what world? She’s not the only unmarried mother with a mess of kids, on public aid, losing her home to foreclosure! So she has 14 kids, guess what? At least she loves them! That’s more than we can say for other mothers out there. Should CPS take her kids ‘cuz she’s out of work and soon to be homeless? Well, there are millions of formerly “well-to-do, keep-up-with-the-Jones’s” who are now in that boat, maybe we should take those kids, too? All you other stay home moms out there, what if your husband suddenly had no job? Maybe this case will set a precident and allow CPS to just take kids willy-nilly. I work in OB and see homeless, jobless single mothers quite often. Maybe CPS should get those kids, too? Shoot, maybe we should start making families fill out some application questionaire before they conceive. Should she be treated differently, because she had her kids all at once, verses the woman in the same financial boat, who has repeated pregnancies and ends up with a mess of kids? I’d rather my hard earned tax dollars go to save her butt than bail out these maga-corporations who’s CEOs make millions a year.

If God didn’t want that woman to have 8 kids at once, then all or few of those embryos would have not implanted, or her body would have terminated the pregancy early. Heck, I’d like to high-five her, that’s just one heck of a uterus she has there! Way to go! She made it 31 weeks, does anyone out there realize what kind of miracle that was? Shoot, some twin gestations don’t last that long. And if she was offered selective reduction, what mother can say “well, I’d like to eliminate that child, and that child, and maybe that one, too.” If you have personally done that, then great, that works for you. But not everyone can do that. Kinda like pro-life vs. abortion. Some people do one, others choose differently.

The only bad decision she’s made was coming out to the media. I think she should have stayed in seclusion. I hope when those babies are released she gets out of California. Have you seen the prices of homes out there? If you haven’t, look them up! A poo-hole dive of a “fixer upper”, that really can only be fixed with a bull dozer runs $200,000. No wonder their house is in foreclosure! It probably cost half a million dollars since the pix I’ve seen didn’t make it look like a big pile of poo.

This world is getting scarier and scarier and freedoms are being lost. Doesn’t anyone else see this????