On my Saturday morning running around.
appx. $52 at the grocery store, locally owned chain.
about $35 was expensive improve life food, $15 just basics
appx. $7.50 plus .099 tax at seattle drug store chain which pays decent for retail,
5 bucks on growing old oinment/linaments/fixer upper, $2.5 on valentine junk.
$6.07, of which 2 bucks is a tip, and .099 of something is tax, at coffee shop
$14.99 plus .099 at sporting good store, important guy stuff,
$9.51 at big box grocery store
$6.25 plus .099 tax at shoe cobbler for shoe cleaner. talked politics.
$3 plus .29 cents in tax on valentine's day stuff at local artsy fartsy chick stuff shop.
so... appx. 52 + 8 + 6 + 16 + 10 + 7 + 3 = appx. $102! at 7 local businesses, only 1 of which is WalCrapMegaJunk.Inc.
Of course, I could have invested the money in gambling, or drinking, or car stuff, or house stuff ... BUT, not all of the above, cuz I only make about 50 grand a year. So there is some stuff I actually do need, and some trinkets and baubles for having fun with others.
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How many teachers & cops & various gov't functionaries were axed in the last 2 years, cuz of right wing budget cuts implemented by chickenshit / sell out Dems?
The Washington Education Association says appx. 3000 teachers were laid off in WA. How many were axed nationally?
How many of them are NOT spending above really real needs this weekend?
How many jobs are NOT supported?
All cuz of cuts implemented cuz we don't have money cuz we won't take it back from the pigs at the top who take it from us, cuz if we take it back from the pigs they won't ... gamble on CDOs and wreck the economy? The pigs will pack their bags, and go to Rio or Helmud Province or Nigeria, and show those people how to wreck the economy on CDOs, and we'll be deprived of the pig leadershit?
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I'll never willingly miss an election - I've only missed a few since I was 18 in '78,
I'll never vote fascist cuz they've been fascists since they fought the 40 hour work week and child labor laws,
I'm DONE voting for Dim-O-Shit political pathetics (that is YOU Patty Murray!) and sell outs (that is YOU Big Zee-R-0!).
rmm.