OMFG I'm hating United Airlines so much right now.
Got up at 4:30am to drag Emmett out of bed and get him to the airport for a 7am flight to NYC.
Got there at 5:30, waited in line, waited, no agents, going slow...and we didn't make it to a ticket agent until 6:45am who promptly
laughed at my face
and told me that we wouldn't make the flight.
All the people around us in the line missed their flights as well.
We're rebooked at 1pm (and have already checked his bag and got the boarding pass etc, so just have to face security now).
Even if we'd gotten there at 5am we wouldn't have made the flight.
And EM is pissy at me on the phone about it like she's inconvenienced.
So we had to pay $75 extra for a new ticket, $25 for the checked bag and $12 for wasted parking. Great way to start the day.
Hec, that's ridiculous. I congratulate you for not bitchslapping the agent who laughed in your face.
Zen, you're nicer than I am. I just castigated him for not punching her.
You are much closer to the problem than I am, therefore I have the luxury of being nicer!
Wow. That sucks!
I am so annoyed at this debt ceiling thing that I can't even tell you! It seems like some sort of bogeyman made up of whole cloth that is not even a real problem until we started talking about it. Plus if you had to cut government costs, why go after programs for poor people AND a program like social Security where we all have had money taken out of our checks for years specifically for that. Jesus Christ. I also don't see how this could possibly help the economy-- don't we need "demand" for things, which means people need money in order to buy them, before we can create more things, and therefore create jobs. I have never taken an economics class, but I am pretty sure that is the case. Obviously, the strategy of lowering taxes for businesses and the rich didn't work!!! They just kept the money, because the lack of demand means that they can't make even more money!!! WTF?
OMG, I so totally need this. I have no idea how I could possibly have lived without this so long.
Also, barf.
So tired and gronky now. I'd take a nap and hate more later but I have to go back to the fucking airport.
The whole debt ceiling thing is primarily intended to hurt Obama so he won't be reelected. In fact, that's all the Republicans have tried to do since 2008.
I got an awesome email from my Rep. about the whole mess. It starts like this:
Debate over raising the debt ceiling continues and August 2nd, the day the US will reach its credit limit, is days away. If we don’t take action, the federal government simply won’t have enough money to meet all of its obligations. I have included a list of our obligations just for the month of August at the end of this correspondence.
It is important to keep in mind that the US had a balanced budget from 1998 to 2001. Those were the first balanced budgets in a generation. We accomplished it through a combination of thoughtful taxation and spending policies.
The first steps on the path toward the deficit were taken when the Bush tax cuts passed in May of 2001. Those tax cuts were implemented without any corresponding spending cuts. I voted no.
