'Obama Announces Intiatives for Middle Class' -- Yay for Me...Oh, Fuck...Scratch That

I'd like to stop being the "other person" in the "spending other people's money" axiom.

AP:

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday offered help for people struggling to pay bills and care for their families, appealing to a middle-class he says has been "under assault for a long time."

In a partial preview of a State of the Union address that aims to answer voter angst about the economy and reconnect with the public, Obama outlined the series of proposals from the White House.[...]

Among the initiatives: a doubling of the child care tax credit for families earning under $85,000; a $1.6 billion increase in federal funding for child care programs and a program to cap student loan payments at 10 percent of income above "a basic living allowance."

His initiatives also include expanding tax credits to match retirement savings and increasing aid for families taking care of elderly relatives. That program would also require many employers to provide the option of a workplace-based retirement savings plan.

I exist in some sort of childless, non-property owning, no college debt, earning little money, black-fuck-me-up-the-ass-hole of taxpayers. Doesn't anyone want to buy my vote??

I promise you; 20-somethings with substance abuse problems and a lack of life ambitions WILL be the swing vote in the upcoming mid-term elections. And we're cheap to buy off. I'd just take a bottle of something.

THE INTERNET IS OUTRAGED!!!

Rings, open-bar holiday parties, snow..It was a busy weekend for me. But I show up to work this morning to find that THE TUBES NEVER REST.

The Great Snowball Fight/Gun Play Incident of the Great Snow Storm of '09 occurred in DC over the weekend and the internet is all a twitter with the happenings. Like everything else that happens in DC, the rest the nation had to hear about it whether we cared or not.

I briefly saw something on my twitter feed about a cop pulling a gun during a twitter organized snowball fight down in DC. [Side Note: They had one of these twitter snowball fight things in Baltimore too. No I wasn't there. I was too busy having sex. But my point is that there was no such gun waving incident in Baltimore. No, our cops are too busy actually shooting and killing people to be bothered with scaring yuppies throwing snowballs.]

So I saw the quick take on the incident and like anyone else it sounded to me like some stupid cop did something stupid with a gun. But reading the accounts and watching the videos this morning, I'm not so sure that those "kids" (couple of the accounts on reason and Washington City Paper interestingly referred to what looked like a group of 20 and 30-somethings as kids) didn't find themselves in a predictable situation that they really could have, and should have avoided.

These douches were throwing snowballs at unsuspecting motorists, no? What fucking adult does that? The off duty cop overreacted, but it appeared that he was overreacting as a pissed off motorist, not a pissed off cop. You wouldn't find me on the corner of Baltimore and Bentalou throwing snowballs at passing cars because a) I'm not a fucking douche b) I might get the shit beat out me.

I'm certainly not defending dirty cops. I blog about it as much as I can stand, and read about it daily. I hear stories from co-workers who live in bad sections of the city about cops taking liberties in just about every regard possible. There are truly tragic stories like this one. A kid who is trying to do something with his life and has no criminal record is mysteriously shot dead by cops. That shit sucks. It sucks a lot. But sorry...I don't see the snowball drama to be anywhere in the ballpark of what I should be outraged about.

P.S. The comments at the City Paper prove to be real classy.

Only In Baltimore

Stuck to the back of a city contruction sign downtown on Charles St. In case you are having trouble making it out it says: DC IS FOR FUCKERS.