Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time

The nice thing about keeping a blog is the historical reference. I was trying to remember how much gas used to cost in 2007 so I looked it up. Gas has gone up 35% in a year using $3.03 and $4.09 as the prices last year and this year respectively. Other expenses have gone up as well, although maybe not as high as 35% I haven’t sat down to figure it out. So here I sit patiently awaiting my tiny 3% increase to be authorized by the governor, who makes almost 4 times what I do and probably has his gas paid for at the taxpayers (my) expense. I think that is the biggest problem with those in power. There is a disconnect between them and the common person they supposedly work for. How can someone who makes $175,000/year and live with most expenses paid possibly understand what it is like to try to make a paycheck last two weeks until the next one comes in? I say let’s give the governor $40,000/year and make him pay the rent on that mansion and see how he does. Then next March we’ll tell him he can have a 3% raise, but we won’t actually give him the money until mid-summer or maybe later. See if he likes it.