And, we are back on the block! Our government, for the third time in this administration, has decided that the military...or rather the "defense budget" is once again expendable financially. I don't know about other military families, but I can say that I am very tired of feeling that our pay is going to be cut every time congress sneezes in our direction!
People say that these people deserve our respect, but how can you do that when all they do is make policies to benefit themselves and hurt the rest of us. I read an interesting comment on a military sympathetic facebook page yesterday. The comment said, " you think that just because your husband is in the military, that you don't have to work!" I have to say that the statement is entirely untrue!
If it came down to it, I would go get a job. I would have to work an opposing shift to my husband, because me working would do us no good if the money was just going to daycare, but I would and have talked to my husband about it. He is very opposed to me getting a job, but it's because this is how our family opperates best.
Where is my faith in our government? At this point I really don't have any. I feel that at every turn the life that my husband and I have carefully scaled down in order to function effectively as a single income family is going to unravel. We don't have all the big "necessities". No cable, no car payment...I was told by a car dealer last week that no car payment is "unamerican"...no credit card debt. We pick and choose our wants, and get our needs met. We are careful, but careful can come tumbling down if our income is taken.
I am waiting for the day when the rest of the country is in our position, maybe then they will be a little more willing to force the hands of the people they put in power when they get into our personal cookie jars!
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