Diary of a (Ficticious) Swing Voter
August 19, 2004
Dear Diary,
Today was the greatest day! You know I haven't had a job since the knitting plant closed last year and moved to Mexico (boy I wish I could have gone, too- I heard from Sheryl that they make good money down there for how much everything costs.) Randy has been the sweetest husband ever, even though it's been hard not seeing him since they've been making him work so much. He told me that he wasn't going to get overtime anymore if they change these rules or something, but I'm sure they won't- I mean, the government has to know how much people depend on overtime pay, especially when bad things happen. We couldn't have kept affording our mortgage if he hadn't been working extra!
I did have fun, though, because my mom took me shopping out to Wal-Mart. She had to get some prescriptions filled anyway, so I wandered around while she talked with the pharmacist about the new Medicare card she has- I'm glad he was there because she showed me all the information they sent her and Lord knows I couldn't figure it out. It was nice to get out of the house- I don't go out much because gas is so expensive now- $1.85 here! While I was wandering around Wal-Mart I started looking at the new issue of "People". Wow, that Jennifer Aniston sure is pretty- can you imagine making that much money for just talking? I wish I could live like that- get to go to all these fancy restaurants and get to be driven around in big, shiny cars. I guess the Hardee's and my old Subaru will do, though.
Yesterday a man came to my door to talk to me about John Kerry, the guy who's running for President this year. Now Diary, you know I'm not all up on current affairs and stuff- really, it's all kind of dull. I tried watching the news on television but that psychic lady Sylvia Brown was on Montel. I don't believe she can talk to ghosts or nothing, but it's still pretty neat to watch, and the news was just really depressing. They kept talking about people dying over in Iraq, and it just made me sad. I don't know why people in Iraq are fighting us- don't they know we're there to help them? When we went over there I thought they would be so glad to see us, and from what I see on the news sometimes it looks like they weren't. Oh well. I guess you can't teach some people what's good for them.
The man who came to my door told me John Kerry has a plan to get more jobs- that I could use, because my unemployment's about to run out, and he'll get other countries to help us in Iraq. I don't think we need the help- after all, we're America. President Bush is so tough, I really like that about him. He stood up to those evil people! Kerry sounded like he was in favor of good things- after all, who doesn't want more jobs and less taxes on the poor people? Every time I watch the news, though, they tell me something different and everyone keeps fighting. Oh well, if gas prices stay so high maybe I won't be able to drive to vote anyways (ha, ha.). I sure hope I can figure out what the right thing to do is- I know there are lots of bad things going on, and people keep saying President Bush is doing a lot of them... but, I have to believe he's really good at heart. After all, he's a Christian.
I've gotta go now, Diary, and pick Teresa up from school. We got a letter saying she can transfer to another school if we want her to, because her school didn't score high enough on some test or other, so that's another thing to deal with!