Katie
03-13-2009, 09:03 AM
I swear to god if I hear Michelle Obama spew more bullshit from her mouth about military families my blood is literally going to start to boil. She has NO clue about any of what she is talking about and she makes herself look retarded using military families as her platform.
Let me explain:
I am not sure about everyone else but........ We are doing fine financially, everyone i know in the military are doing fine. There are some people with some exceptional situations that are not and they are excluded from my rant but... Seriously the only neighborhoods not covered in eviction notices and forclosure signs are the military neighborhoods. I may sound like an ass here, but..... My husband is only an E3, we have two kids, TONS of previous debt from before getting married, but quite frankly, we are doing just fine. We have money in the savings account (all be it only 1k it is our oh sh*t fund) our bills are paid on time, we have plenty of food in the house, the kids are well clothed, our house is beautiful and fairly well maintained and we have 1 car that runs well and sh*t I still have shopping money. I am not sure where she thinks sso many people are worse off having financial problems when they are in the military. (Like I said previously I know there are some exceptions but...I think the majority of us are doing just fine) We should not have to be as creative as we are sometimes with our money and NO ONE in the military should be struggling, but it is what it is, EVERYONE is struggling in the country right now.
This brings me to getting infuriated everytime I hear "Military families" come out of Michelle's mouth. It seems to me to be a platform to tug at people's heartstrings or sound like she cares or knows... but quite frankly this morning on GMA the bullsh*t that spewed from her mouth about how soooo many of our military families are struggling on food stamps just to feed their families, how they are facing foreclosure etc. I am going to sound heartless here, but... Spend wisely......... I do realize that we have military families struggling, I do realize that NOT ALL have spent frivalously, I get that.... But I would like to say a majority of the us are doing ok. I do think that our servicemembers do deserve higher pay, but I think there are there are alot of other things she could be focusing on if she wants to help the military. What about focusing on fixing the tricare issues, housing shortages, funding more mental health for our returning troops, mental health for our children, spouses?? What about all of the other problems we face in the military? I just get so angry that she acts like she knows first hand or has ANY understanding of the things we go through. I think perhaps if she acted like she truly cared, or was not just using it as a platform to bring positive attention to her husband maybe it wouldn't irritate me so much.
I know this might be a heated discussion for some and I don't mean to start a fight, I was not able to annunciate my thoughts as clearly as I would have liked so please don't shank me.. lol
Let me explain:
I am not sure about everyone else but........ We are doing fine financially, everyone i know in the military are doing fine. There are some people with some exceptional situations that are not and they are excluded from my rant but... Seriously the only neighborhoods not covered in eviction notices and forclosure signs are the military neighborhoods. I may sound like an ass here, but..... My husband is only an E3, we have two kids, TONS of previous debt from before getting married, but quite frankly, we are doing just fine. We have money in the savings account (all be it only 1k it is our oh sh*t fund) our bills are paid on time, we have plenty of food in the house, the kids are well clothed, our house is beautiful and fairly well maintained and we have 1 car that runs well and sh*t I still have shopping money. I am not sure where she thinks sso many people are worse off having financial problems when they are in the military. (Like I said previously I know there are some exceptions but...I think the majority of us are doing just fine) We should not have to be as creative as we are sometimes with our money and NO ONE in the military should be struggling, but it is what it is, EVERYONE is struggling in the country right now.
This brings me to getting infuriated everytime I hear "Military families" come out of Michelle's mouth. It seems to me to be a platform to tug at people's heartstrings or sound like she cares or knows... but quite frankly this morning on GMA the bullsh*t that spewed from her mouth about how soooo many of our military families are struggling on food stamps just to feed their families, how they are facing foreclosure etc. I am going to sound heartless here, but... Spend wisely......... I do realize that we have military families struggling, I do realize that NOT ALL have spent frivalously, I get that.... But I would like to say a majority of the us are doing ok. I do think that our servicemembers do deserve higher pay, but I think there are there are alot of other things she could be focusing on if she wants to help the military. What about focusing on fixing the tricare issues, housing shortages, funding more mental health for our returning troops, mental health for our children, spouses?? What about all of the other problems we face in the military? I just get so angry that she acts like she knows first hand or has ANY understanding of the things we go through. I think perhaps if she acted like she truly cared, or was not just using it as a platform to bring positive attention to her husband maybe it wouldn't irritate me so much.
I know this might be a heated discussion for some and I don't mean to start a fight, I was not able to annunciate my thoughts as clearly as I would have liked so please don't shank me.. lol