Swimming Against the Current

My top ten reasons for enjoying singlehood:

1. You eat whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want.
2. You can walk around your apartment naked and go to the bathroom with the door open.
3. You can sleep like a starfish in your bed.
4. You can go wherever you want for as long as you want. This includes taking a vacation to any place in the world.
5. You can watch whatever you want on TV.
6. You can talk to whomever you want.
7. You can wear whatever you want.
8. You can buy whatever you want.
9. You save more money because no one else spends it but you.
10. You can clean the apartment whenever you feel like it, which might not be very often.

The poor economy is here. Yes, I know. I am fully aware that people are losing their jobs, having hard times finding new ones, running out of money, applying for unemployment and government assistance, falling into a depression, etc. I get it. Everywhere I go it is reiterated over and over and over. I get it, people.

Has anyone ever considered that, if we have a 10% unemployment rate in the country right now, it means that 90% of us are still working? Would the media like to take a look at things from that perspective at all, instead of wafting the fumes of doom and gloom in our faces 24 hours a day with no reprieve?

Yes, the economy is bad. I get it. But it doesn’t mean my feelings are any less important than they were when the economy was decent. If I still want to complain about my job, I’m going to complain about it. People say you shouldn’t complain about your job, that “at least you have one.” I disagree. Heavy breathers and loud typers and gossipers and two-faced people and perverts don’t automatically become acceptable in the work environment just because 10% of American citizens are out of work. It is what it is.

One of these days I will put the energy into writing about the food stamp scam in the Arab community here in Michigan, and why we are not “oh-so-poor” in this state if those bastards are eating for free by the herds. And stocking their shelves in their tax-free businesses using taxpayer dollars (food stamps).

Oh, you didn’t know that? A lot of people don’t. But a lot of people do, but do nothing about it. Like our politicians. Our law enforcement. State officials. Everyone who could do something but chooses not to.

That is what I definitely have a right to complain about in this sour economy of ours.