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Temporary work has its ups and downs.
The ups: you can make a run towards paying some of the bills that keep piling up in a modern life, your time at home feels more like it's been earned, and you feel - on a good day - like a productive member of society.
The downs: these days, the sort of temporary work one finds these days is basically drudgery, the jobs that don't require hardly any brain power but at the same time tax you to the point where you're numb come closing time. Plus, you never know when the job's going to end, or when the next time you'll be able to work will be. Pay's not exactly something to cheer about, either.
Warning, political rant ahead ... take it for what it's worth.
In this frame of mind, I hear that the latest plan for spurring the sagging economy involves permanently ending taxes on stock dividends.
Which is great, for them as has money, and can invest it in the markets. For them as don't have that money, the poor folk who live hand-to-mouth, paycheck-to-paycheck, barely staying ahead of the bills, this does precisely gornischt to help them.
They say of the rich: they don't make money, their money makes money. Maybe for a lot of people it's not strictly true, that they do something to earn a living, but the more money you have, the more money you can invest, the more the elimination of that tax helps you, and the less your share of the burden of paying the government's bills becomes.
And if one person's burden becomes less, then another person's burden must become greater. Simple logic.
I'm on the bottom right now. My money, what meager savings I've scratched out, isn't making money right now; it's in a hole, sinking, praying for the day it sees daylight. You see, I put some money aside for the future, on solid advice that a series of diversified investments in mutual funds would earn me much gold. Which is exactly what is encouraged by the current plan.
When I add that I put my investment in the future into the hands of the mutual funds approximately eighteen minutes and thirty-seven seconds before the bottom fell out of the tech market, you might understand why there's a tang of bitterness here.
Perhaps in the future - knock on wood and hope that the bar exam goes well - I might be able to look on the economy from the side that gains a little more benefit, but I'm still not going to be thrilled about it.
Sorry, this turned into more of a rant than I intended ... guess it's been that kind of a day.
Close entry...
The ups: you can make a run towards paying some of the bills that keep piling up in a modern life, your time at home feels more like it's been earned, and you feel - on a good day - like a productive member of society.
The downs: these days, the sort of temporary work one finds these days is basically drudgery, the jobs that don't require hardly any brain power but at the same time tax you to the point where you're numb come closing time. Plus, you never know when the job's going to end, or when the next time you'll be able to work will be. Pay's not exactly something to cheer about, either.
Warning, political rant ahead ... take it for what it's worth.
In this frame of mind, I hear that the latest plan for spurring the sagging economy involves permanently ending taxes on stock dividends.
Which is great, for them as has money, and can invest it in the markets. For them as don't have that money, the poor folk who live hand-to-mouth, paycheck-to-paycheck, barely staying ahead of the bills, this does precisely gornischt to help them.
They say of the rich: they don't make money, their money makes money. Maybe for a lot of people it's not strictly true, that they do something to earn a living, but the more money you have, the more money you can invest, the more the elimination of that tax helps you, and the less your share of the burden of paying the government's bills becomes.
And if one person's burden becomes less, then another person's burden must become greater. Simple logic.
I'm on the bottom right now. My money, what meager savings I've scratched out, isn't making money right now; it's in a hole, sinking, praying for the day it sees daylight. You see, I put some money aside for the future, on solid advice that a series of diversified investments in mutual funds would earn me much gold. Which is exactly what is encouraged by the current plan.
When I add that I put my investment in the future into the hands of the mutual funds approximately eighteen minutes and thirty-seven seconds before the bottom fell out of the tech market, you might understand why there's a tang of bitterness here.
Perhaps in the future - knock on wood and hope that the bar exam goes well - I might be able to look on the economy from the side that gains a little more benefit, but I'm still not going to be thrilled about it.
Sorry, this turned into more of a rant than I intended ... guess it's been that kind of a day.
Close entry...
