Oh, Uncle Sam...
You gave me $600 today so I can "stimulate the economy" or something. Thanks.
I know you want me to spend it on baked goods or electronics or some such, but I plan to use it to replace the $600 you taxed me in 2006 for daring to give my then-unemployed partner health insurance through the domestic partner program at my office. To twist the knife a little, I plan to spend that $600 toward legal fees for power of attorney, medical power of attorney, and living will documents that give my same-sex partner and I a lot of the legal and tax benefits you deny us as gay citizens by not allowing us to legally marry.
So suck on that, Sam. You and your puritanical heterosexual hegemony can just suck it. (Yeah, that was pretty pretentious of me, but I don't really care.)
3 comments:
I am behind you one hundred and thirty percent..completely.
Every working American should really be hating on me. Get this: I am receiving a $600 "stimulus" check as well. I don't even live in the US of A and I certainly don't plan on making any effort to get that money back to the US economy. Well, maybe I do..I still buy a Starbucks when I get a chance.
Second to that...I didn't even really WORK last year! I think I logged less than 30 days of real, paid work in 2007. Seriously..I'm not particularly complaining, but why am I getting extra money from the government AND an earned income credit?
So...they should really just stop spending all this money trying to keep the gays from marrying each other and maybe they would find the extra money lying around to spend on useful things...like, health care or sumthin'.
Yeah.
Ditto to everyone.
We will most likely spend the money in Russia because we planned a vacation to Russia before our "free" money. Any money that we don't spend in Russia will be saved because, get this, I've heard talk of a recession! Whuh?
And since we are bringing a new life into the world in October, I figure we need to save all the money that we can (don't worry, Russia was already paid for).
No, I will not be cashing this check and Wal-mart or Sears or any such stupid place. I'm saving it or I'm spending it in a foreign market.
I don't feel like I'm owed this money, I feel like it fell out of the sky. And when money falls out of sky, I keeps it. For good. Because you never know when you might need it.
Plus Ol' McCain wants us to buy our own health care (don't we kinda already?). Yeah....
On the topic of McCain -- fuck him! He's got great health insurance AND he's probably going to die soon, so what does he care about us?
Whew! Okay...stepping down from soapbox now...
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