Spend It While You've Got It

In an unprecedented way of thinking for me, it's time to splurge. I'm accepting this point of view as someone who's always saved, ostensibly for the future. Well the future is now and fiscal responsibility and living within my means has not gotten me nearly as far as I thought it would. In fact, I'm seeing the monetary system I've willfully participated in has far fewer rewards than I EVER could have imagined. Apparently the economic recovery is for people who declare bankruptcy and spend money like water. I assume it's always been this way because the government is trying to get banks to start making loans AGAIN. How many times must you touch a hot stove before you believe it's hot? I'm going to try to be a fiscally bigger asshole but I'm fighting through decades of believing my credit rating was some kind of reflection, at least in part, of my worth as an American. Another HUGE example of "Boy, was I wrong." in my penny pinching face.

Bailout 2.0: The Jonesboro High Dance Team

This Dance Team got suspended for developing skills that will help them finance their college educations, create their own economic stimulus package and concurrently get them ready for the impending trickle down bailout. The coach got fired. Whatever. If it keeps even one student out of Heald College, I say DO IT. Bailout with y'alls tail out. I'm not even going to be overly critical of the 2 gals/weak links who will begin on Wednesday afternoon shifts or at worst, have to audition on amateur night, because they're still in high school and will have plenty of time to get up to speed. I love the South and this just reminds me why. I can barely remember if there's a bar in Georgia that's NOT a strip bar. It's obvious that more Dance Teams should be following their lead and even stepping it up by accepting dollar bills. Aunts LIKE dolla bills & the stoopid gumby gold, yo. Of course those dollar bills will go to fund next year's uniforms, more full length mirrors and coaches that will remind a certain 2 students to get to practice & whatever incidentals are incurred by a Dance Team. The Dance Team can be a new business model for students: generate money, sink it back in to your business, repeat. Oh and it's even better because every year, new dancers are automatically dumped into the mix. Seamless. Keep up the good work and remember there's no shame in taking a dollar bill someone is waving at you!

Whew!! There's a whole group of recessionistas I don't have to worry about. Oh, you're going to want to turn the sound down on this. It is not necessary.