The American Way

We are winding down till our Orlando trip so Jen can take her engineering exam and she is really hitting the books. Lately it’s been pretty busy: finished a class and starting another one next week in addition to my math class, work is getting busy, Heroes (another show we’ve gotten sucked into), mountain biking, and of course Halo 3.

The other day I was talking with Jen about the amount it’s costing us for me to go to school. I made the comment in passing, “if we don’t pay my school loan back will the government take back my diploma”. She said “no, but they will sue you”. Then it dawned on me that the American way is to sue, sue no matter the cost.

If someone seriously cannot make the payments for whatever legit reason, why is it ok for companies to sue for everything some working class family has? Jen shared a story with me that her boss shared with her. An engineer made a bad design and his company was sued. Which is understand but what is not understand is that because they weren’t satisfied with what they got from his company they decide to go after him personally, took his children’s college fund, savings, vehicles, house, and who knows what else. Jen said this was a big company suing and they did not need the money they took from him. So when is enough enough? They guy ended up either killing himself or having a heart attack Jen said. Which made me start thinking about the conversation I had with good ol Bank of America a couple weeks back asking about the foreclosure process, which is they would sell the house and whatever they do not get from the sell they’ll bleed me dry. Actually, she didn’t say that, but she did say that they could come after us. Eh…news flash lady if I couldn’t make my mortgage payment what makes you think you’ll get the rest of the money from me…magic money tree

My sister and I are at odds and what really ticks me off about the whole thing is that she feel for some reason she feel entitled to things. Where in world was I when that lecture was going on in school…oh at the “what we are not entitled to in life” lecture. Last time I checked the only thing we’re entitled to is death. On top of that, she justifies it by saying because she has a single income not double income it’s ok. Because I have a double income my life is like, well, the rich and the famous. I will say this she is absolutely brilliant when it comes to book smarts, but common sense is a whole another story.

Funny story. Apparently one our cats finds pleasure in opening my sock and undergarments drawer and pulling everything out of it and onto the floor.

Something I created for Jen: