My rage against congress is all consuming this morning.

I have emailed and made my calls. Fat lot of good it will do me.

I do have roller derby photos from my last bout, though. Which are more than slightly amusing.

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My rage against congress is all consuming this morning.

AGREED.

I appreciate that my reps are all people whose world view overlaps with mine.

Also, I am pro-elephant.

I really truly don't understand how the people who seem to despise the poor and the sick are always the ones loudly proclaiming themselves Christians. Isn't there any cognitive dissonance going on there at all?

I really want Jesus to punch them in the face.

Which proves I don't know a lot about Christianity.

Maybe next time Jesus overturns some tables, He will pick them up and use them as clue-by-fours and beat some sense into people.

Maybe next time Jesus overturns some tables, He will pick them up and use them as clue-by-fours and beat some sense into people.

I was just about to say, he's probably be okay with throwing some tables and yelling at them.

My unemployment benefits needed to be extended (yes, it's been that long...), so the sequester cut came online. The letter came with a form for me to ask for a hardship reason they shouldn't, but I'm having a hard time justifying asking.

(Like "I have two needy cats to support!" But more like "I'm maxed out on my credit card, and the cut amount means that my benefits barely cover my mortgage and health insurance!")

I don't really expect action anger from the working poor, I expect it from the middle, from my over-estimation of decent people.

ION - I am doing invoices most of the day because all of a sudden I have like 80 in my queue. I have done 12 thus far. Each invoice requires referencing spreadsheets for WO #s and equipment verification and often times, looking through another area of the financial software for PO#s, because old ones close and new ones open on a regular. 12 invoices in almost 3 hours. kill me. My stack of - cannot find the PO, no more money in the PO, or cannot match up equipment is also 12, so those are issues that will take even longer to resolve and involve me calling other people. WAH.

ok, back to it.

My unemployment benefits needed to be extended (yes, it's been that long...), so the sequester cut came online.

That makes sense. Since your benefits started pre-sequester, they didn't get cut at the time the sequester happened; they got cut when you needed to extend them. Did I get that right?

"I'm maxed out on my credit card, and the cut amount means that my benefits barely cover my mortgage and health insurance!"

God, tell me about it. I am so glad we refinanced the house right before I lost my job. Every little bit helps.

Absolutely. I'm still kind of traumatized by the picture of the baby elephant crying after his mother abandoned him (he got adopted by caretakers, but still).

Oh god, yes, that thing made me cry.

And I love the image of Jesus throwing tables at Congress. Sigh.

That makes sense. Since your benefits started pre-sequester, they didn't get cut at the time the sequester happened; they got cut when you needed to extend them.

S. is going back on unemployment because of the big fuckup at his new job (long story, not his fault), and as far as we can tell he'll be getting the same benefit he was receiving from the layoff with the paper before he got this job, because he didn't use all of it. Or something.

I'm not sure I trust this information. But for now anything will probably be better than the pittance he's been making without any chance to add commissions to it.