I don't have cable and my convention streaming didn't work out well, but...
...I can say this one thing for sure. Joe Biden is a national treasure and certainly a much better man to be 1 heartbeat away from the Presidency that his far rightist ayn rand loving lying opponent who MAY have a few more IQ points than sarah palin(comparison).
In the very little that I had the opportunity to see last night, the veep said one thing that took my heart and moved me almost to tears. He stated that a job is more than a paycheck, it's one of the ways we feel our dignity, our self respect and a way we may maintain our belief that we can care for our family's security.
Since so many of you were so supportive of my family and I last year when we went through a 10 month nightmare of my unemployment, You'll know what Imean when I say that when you don't have a job, you go to a very ugly place in your mind. While I WAS collecting unemployment compensation, I WAS NOT working. I went through the steps of working full time plus at trying to find a job, usually to not get anywhere often due to the grey in my hair and the birthdate on my driver's license.
I can't even begin to describe the depths of depresion and hopelessnes tha I approached in that time. It was ugly and in that whole time, I had to do my best to maintain a positive front in front of my family.
While most people look forward to weekends, I looked at them as times of dispair. I started every Monday morning with high hopes that I'd find something THAT WEEK, and reach Friday with feelings of helplessness.
While many people enjoy getting their child or children a treat when they go shopping, I always had to tell my son that I couldn't afford it becaue I didn't have a friggin' job or the friggin' money.
While self righteous teabagging asshole scumbags like steve king and his ilk were accusing people like me of living in luxury on the public's dime, we were trying to keep the wolves off our doorstep and our head close to the surface and to avoid living in our car.
I finally got a job in April of this year, got laid off by the bastards in August, and started my new job yesterday. I'm 57. If I don't advance within this organization by the time I'm 62, I'm going to follow my mother's lead, hit the silk and go for early retirement and drop down to working part time.
Even though I'm not taking that much more home than now than when I was on UI, even though we're no longer getting food stamps or MaineCare, I know that I'm working at WHAT I DO best!
I feel self respect, dignity and a feeling of being able to provide for my family. Since we're doing this based on my wife's income and in her name, we'll be closing on a house next week in Winthrop, Maine, where we've always wanted to live. While my wife IS considerably younger than I, this is our LAST MOVE. WE buy this house but it is our 12 year old son who will eventually sell it. We're leaving this house feet first. The way lifespans run in my family, that'll be about 30 years from now.
VP Biden is right. A job is much more than a paycheck, and the robme/lyin ticket can take their medicare vouchers & tax cuts for billionaires and shove them right up their monied and favored right wing asses.
That's my 2 cents, and quit possibly overpriced at that!
PEACE!
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