Spyder's blog: "Rants"

Not sure if most of you are like me or if anyone may read this, but I am pretty tired of the people no longer having a voice in our country. For many years now our country has been run my the highest bidder and not the people. Our Government is for sale. As the number of voters shrinks the lining of our elected offficals grows bigger. They say money is free speech, there for the more you have the louder your speech. If you have no money, or little of it to spend on politics your voice goes unheard. Yes, we have polls, but who can say they are not fixed anymore? I'll get to my point. On July 4th of this year I am going to walk from St. Louis, Mo. to Washington, DC in protest of our lack of accountablity and leadership in our countries capital. For to long I have just thought by voting I would have my say, but do I? I live in IL. and in every Presidential election I know my state will always elect a Demicrate for President, so why vote? When I get to Washington I will address my congressmen and Senators and hand deliver my Referendum of Independance to them, which I will write on my trip, for it will take me 40 day to walk there. Along the way I will talk to people and get their feedback, which I will bring to Washington. Am I crazy? Guess we will see.....

AmrenIP turned in a record 1st quarter profit. Gas prices are on the rise while the oil companies are making money hand over fist and still asking for tax breaks and incentives. The stock market is hitting new record highs each month, yet only 49% of Americans own any stocks. What percent of them only own stock in there own company as part of profit sharing? The owner of my hotel, along with 2% of other rich Americans, gets a tax cuts and would like them to be permanent. We, the rest of us are told to conserve. I use energy efficient light bulbs, yet my power bill still rises. I use less and less power in my home and yet my power bill still doubles. Yet, my power company turns in record profits. I went from filling my car up once a week and taking random road trips to filling my car once every two weeks and taking few road trips and gas prices still go up. So I went to filling my car once a month and taking no road trips and I have not had a vacation since 1997 and now gas prices are hitting new record highs and showing no sign of lowering. The price of gas goes up and the price of everything else does to. Yet, the oil companies are making record profits. I am one of the 51% of Americans who do not own any stocks. I just can not afford it. Working at $7.75 an hour does not afford much. So the rich just get richer, the middle class just hold on and the poor are left behind. I am well below the 2% of Americans who got the tax cut. My boss/owner is not yet I still do not get a raise. This is my call to arms to us 51% who own no stocks, have not gotten raises in a year and are just plain tired of our Government telling us to pull ourselves up by our boot straps as they knock out our foundation, give tax breaks to the rich and giving jobs to their already well off friends. I say we form a new Union, an American Union. I say we all take a day off and just do not show up to work. What would happen if the working class of Americans just say we are not showing up to work till we have a seat at the big boys table? I have been in the serves industry most of my life, what would happen if everyone of use who work for a hotel just did not show up to work, if all those who work in restaurants just did not show up for work, if all those who work in retail do not show up for work and all those who drive for a living just stay home? We as the great country of America would just shut down. We are told we have no power; we are the ones with the power. We are told to live in fear, I say those who think that have the power should live in fear for a day, a week, a month. I say we stand up in non-violence and take our country of the people, by the people and for the people back. My name is Jeremy P. Lincicum, I am an American, and I am a patriot. If you agree with what I have said, let me know, share it with a friend and let us together choices a day to just say home.

This will be short, due to the fact I need to sleep. Things are not looking up much. Everyone and their cousin is telling me I owe money. Who is real, who is not? My paycheck is being garnished to the legal limit on top of the DOE wanting more money and taking my state and fed. tax return. I feel I should just hand my check directly to the government I should just move into a cardboard box. I understand I have to repay my student loans, but to what end? I must say my pursuit of happiness has long but ended. I should just ducktape my mouth shut due tot he fact I no longer have any voice in my own life. If I ever really did.....

....and it is someone else telling me I owe them money. I understand, and want to pay off my debts. I also understand I have made many, many bad choices. So for Gods sake, take a mother fucking number and get in line!!!!!! I'll be the bum in the ally, next to Walmart! Jeremy

I need a new job and soon. Willing to move, willing to do just about anything. I am a fast learner and hard worker. Not that any of this really matters in todays world, because I do not know anyone with influnce and I refuse to kiss ass. So here I am, stuck in a deadend job working for $7.75 an hour. Passed up for promotion time and time again for the lamest of reasons. This is my life. So if anyone is looking for a hard working, non yes man. Here I am. I guess I will be stuck in my current job for sometime....... Jeremy

I have 2 roomates and we share a 3 bedroom house. One of my roomates (Yi) has been in the house as long as I, for 3 and a half years. The other has only been in for about a year (Brandon). So, you would think by now that at least Yi would know that the rent was due on the 5th of every month. Nope, every month I have to track him down and remind him like 30 times and still I get it late. I have to have roomates becouse I do not make enough to live on my own. One of many things in my life I seem to have no choice in. I am stuck in the job I have, because I can not seem to find a better one. Sad. People who have never been poor will never understand. You can try to explain to them, but they just reply with, "get a better job". As if that is all it takes. A if I can just walk in the door and say give me a job. They do not know how it is when you have to decide between eatting the next few days or putting gas in your car. I live a life of reactive instead of proactive. I try to be proactive, but seem to always fail. But try none the less. How can I take my life back and do the things I love to do? To be around people I enjoy to be around and they enjoy being with me. When can I stop living a life of surviving and start living? I am a hard worker,a good person and truely care about my fellow humans. This means nothing if I am not happy with my life and the seemingly hopeless future. So will I give up? Hell no! I keep on keeping on and maybe one day I will get a break of good luck, instead of bad. -Jeremy

This year I planned to go all out. I was going to give up the boozes, or maybe go the movie route and give of sex and masterbation...... but then I got a phone call...... You have to read "why do I work?".... so now the Feds want to take an extra 15% out of my paycheck because I make so much. I mean, 12k a year goes so far. They did say they would settle for $100 a month. Anyway, as of this writing I am giving up food. All I will do is drink water for 40 days and 40 nights. Guess we will see how long I will last before I do not wake up. How else can I live off $71 a month after all my bills and taxes. Those of you who read this think I am bluffing do not know me very well. I am very thick headed and just do not really care anymore. I mean, does the Government really think that if they suck me dry of any money I do not make and force me to live out of a box that they will get their money? No! They will just kick you in the balls and get what they can till I am dead. So I figure I will just speed up the process and starve myself. I let ya know how it goes... Day 1 Bring it on bitchs!!!!! Day 2 This is going to be tough. A little help from my friends would be great..... *hug* Day 3 Thank you to my friends Sam and Fatal for all there support. It means so much. Mmmmmmm water is good!!! :p Day 4 Going strong Day 5 My tummy hurts, but all is good Day 6 As I can tell, no one really cares what I am doing, but maybe 1 or 2. Thanks! Day 7 I have a pretty bad headach today, and a tummy ache. I hope it will soon pass :D Day 8 Not much to say, as if anyone was reading this...... Day 9 My first day off from work since I started. Man, do I want a steak! :(

I sure do not work for me.... I do not have a family to support..... I sure do not have a loved one to share my life with..... So why? I work a deadend job making $7.45 an hour. Worse yet, it's a job working midnights. I have been working extra hours to try to get ahead only end up deeper in the hole of debt. So let us do the math: $7.45 x 40 hours = $298 a week $1192 a month -177.38 taxes -169.47 student loans -211.00 rent -124.00 house bills - 79.00 car insurance - 60.00 cell phone -200.00 loan payment 171.15 extra cash $171.15 for food, gas and entertainment a month. That is on the high end of what I have left after I pay my bill. Needless to say, I do not spend much if anything on entertainment or even try to save money. I am just tired of working for "The Man" and not doing shit with my life or having anyone to do shit with. When I try to move up in the world, I end up moving backwards....... I need to get out of the Hell I call a life...... Relp!

Two dreams I have, one to have a family of my own and to be President of these United States. One my seem simpler then the other, can you guess which? To me both are very far from me. I feed my brain with knowledge everyday to better myself for my goal to be President. Can a nobody from the midwest become President? I have no family ties to goverment and no real time to big money. So you can say I have a ways to go. But my goal to be a father and a husband seem further away then that. I have not been on a date per-say in years. I have not had a grlfriend in many more years. My longest relationship I believe was less then a year long, maybe 10 months. And that was when I was 19, I am 31 now. So which if any of these dreams will come true? If i was a betting man, I'd put money on me Being President, before I become a husband and father. President Lincicum

So, I was to enjoy my first real day off and 3 day break in months from work. I have been getting a day off a week, but anyone who has worked midnights, one day off is not really a day off. Your body is just playing catch up. It wouldn't be so bad if my co-works didn't feel as if they can just leave shit for me, cause well, I have to do. I have no choice. As they do, and just leave it for me. This would not be so bad, but my life at home with my roomates is a nightmare. They can never seem to pay any bills on time. Well bills come due, they seem to scatter like cockroaches when you turn on the lights. They can never be found, and can alway come up with a new BS excuss. Of course I suffer from "nice guy" symdrom and no spine. I hate conflict. But I can only be push so far, and then I go postal, and that is never pretty. A true side of me I hate. I really just do not know what to do anymore? Stuck in a deadend job and stuck in a shitty house with shitty roomates. Thanks to both these things I have zero dollars and zero friends cause I have zero happiness in my life. -spyder