Another day and down another dollar

[altivo]

Well, I got my annual pay increase. It almost keeps up with inflation for the last year, if you ignore the price of gasoline, electricity, and food which have all skyrocketed. My share of the medical insurance went up significantly too. My property taxes were raised by about 12% on top of that,

I added it all up, and found that I have less money than last year, which was less than the year before. I'm not even treading water here. Don't ANYone dare ask me why I hate the Bush administration, because I blame them for this, almost entirely. I do not understand why Americans voted those idiots back into office in 2004. It is utterly, totally incomprehensible.

Gasoline prices here just jumped another 15 cents to $3.60 for unleaded regular. I just got back from the grocery store where I bought what was on sale almost exclusively, yet spent about 20% more than usual. Something is going to collapse here, and I don't just mean the dead trees.

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I suspect it was more than 49% actually. Unreliable and dishonest voting machinery helped the Republicans more than it did the Democrats, for whatever reason.