Good Morning, America

I have a few minutes this morning to blog for a little while so I am taking advantage of it. I haven't been working for the past few weeks due to a budget cutback with the school board. They are associating it with the newest tax votes allowing people to get $50,000 in homestead exemptions. It just totally amazed me that within 1 week of the vote that the cuts have already affected their budget! We haven't even been given the credits on our taxes yet. I just love the politics of our state (and country, as far as that goes). We are all feeling the crunch due to the high gas prices but the government doesn't see fit to put some kind of price freeze. Our entire economy is being affected by the gas. I know that the company my husband works for has just raised their Diesel fuel to $3.66 per gallon and it will be going up again this week. Our trucking companies cannot continue to operate when the largest portion of their budget is for fuel alone, on top of what they have already been paying for outrageous insurance . The government can regulate a lot of what is damaging our economy, but chooses to allow big oil companies to ONCE AGAIN make record billion dollar profits! They are allowing insurance companies, in Florida alone, to cancel policies, jack up their rates, and then not pay out when a claim is filed! I have been a republican and plan to continue to be one but I certainly hope some one wakes up and realizes that the "little man" doesn't have the unlimited resources of income available when the cost of living goes up but the pay doesn't. Worse yet the dollar we are working for is even losing it's value so we are working harder to get less money to buy stuff that costs more! Will someone please wake up and smell the coffee!