Okay, I haven't posted in a long while, but what has their been to post about? The election? Sarah Palin? New tech gadgets that are old before they hit the market? I am interested in all those things, but we all have our opinions on them and I kept mine to myself.

Now I come to the topic of the stimulus because I am trying to understand. I need to understand, so I am going to rant for a moment. Like many I rent a home. I work some 40 hours a week and make payments on one vehicle. A used vehicle. I don't have a credit card to lean on or any money that I don't make in a paycheck every other week. So, I ask, how if the stimulus plan of these United States going to help me?!

From what I have been able to infer we are going to create several hundred thousand jobs, but I am already employed...for now...if our company doesn't find work that may be another story. That aside, I still don't make enough money to cover daycare for my son AND rent. Not to mention the utter lack of being able to do anything fun that doesn't include the word FREE! The area parks are doing great business. :)

We don't own a house, so we are not going to be foreclosed on...so that part of the mega stimulus is not something we can benefit from. Hell, I have never been able to buy a house, much less get behind on the payments for one.

Credit crunch? What is that when you don't have credit? I was taught to buy everything with cash and if I don't have the money I can't have what ever it is that I want to buy.

For some reason everything in this modern world revolves around the mysterious number called a credit score. So, how is this number compiled for someone who doesn't buy things they can't pay cash for?! I will tell you. They tell me I have worse than bad credit because I have never paid for anything in payments. Well, if you think about it, this country...no this planet...would not be in this current finanacial meltdown if they had paid with what they needed with CASH!

Do you realize that I can't even get satellite? I have mentioned that I don't have a credit card, so you can imagine what sort of red flag that sites to the satellite company. If I want satellite I have to give them a huge down payment?! Why? Because I don't resort to using a piece of plastic every time I want to buy something.

So, I ask the public, how is this stimulus bill going to influence me in ANY WAY?! I will still make too much to benefit from ANY subsidized programs. Whether MY rent is paid or my daycare is tired of working with me I make too much, but still not enough. This stimulus bill is going to benefit the very wealthy and the very poor. Those of us just above the bottom and just below the middle are not even a foot note! It is beyond me that everyone is gung ho for this when it is not going to help us?!