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The cost of living just keeps on rising.. Gas prices are well over $3 per gallon, it's costing me over $40 to fill up my tank. Utilities in Maryland have skyrocketed, my electric bill has doubled from the time I first moved into Baltimore (less than a year ago).
On top of these extra expenses, Marylands Governor Martin O'Malley had the bright idea to increase government spending on programs that wont be effective by billions of dollars. Unfortunatly Governor O'Malley realized after he pledged all this money, and the state budget did not have it, so what does he do?? He declares an Structural Deficit, and calls for an emergency special session of the state legislature in order to raise our taxes (heaven forbid, he cuts out one of his programs).
With the extra costs of gas, electricity and other products nowadays, I can barely affort to live in Maryland as is, now Governor O'Malley is raising my taxes!!! What a Putz!!
It seems like only yesterday, I was in high school trying to figure out what to do with my life. I had both of my parents as well as society screaming at me to "Go to college". My parents said thing like "You can't do much in life without a college education" and "Go to college and the world is your oyster". Blah, Blah, Blah!!
I went to College, Studied hard and got pretty good grades. I graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Political Science. I am recently married and my wife and I relocated to Baltimore from our home state of Michigan. When I decided to start looking for a job within my degree, I figured I was close to Washington, D.C. and could easily find something, after all, according to my parents the world was my oyster!
Unfortunatly, after months of interviews and searching, I started to take notice of that annoying attachment on Entry level job postings that says "1 to 2 years experience required!"
Correct me if i'm wrong!! But doesn't "Entry Level" mean that it's a job, meant to give a person that experience, and you should not have to have that experience before you start that job?
I could not afford to take an Internship while in college because they payed little or no money and school books are expensive! So for the life of me, I can not wrap my head around the idea that I need 2 years of work experience to get a job that is Entry Level (these jobs are suppost to be an alternative to Internships!)
When I was younger, I used to think that those people who I saw in their late 20's and 30's waiting tables and tending bar failed in life, and didn't go to school. Now that I'm older, I realize that most of these people have college degrees and are in the same boat as I am!!
I am now working as Staff Assistant/Receptionist, I got the position through a temp. agency. It pays $12 an hour! (not a lot for a newly married college educated man). But its at a government lobbying office for a large company, so if I word it properly on my resume, than that becomes my entry level job!
Since the start of my college career in 2000, till up until a few years ago. I was one of the most ardent Zionists you would find on my colleges campus. I have read dozens of books on the subject, gone to countless speeches, I even received my degree in Political Science so I would be able to take courses that allowed me to discuss the Israeli conflict (also because I enjoyed it!).
While going to college, I also took the time out to delve into my religiosity. I was not raised religious, and am what is known in the Jewish world as a "Baal Teshuvah". After college I took 2 years out of my life to study at Yeshiva to better understand the Torah and Judaism. I noticed in that time, that I stopped paying attention to the conflict and realized that being a good Zionist did not necessarily translate into being a good Jew!
Having spoken to countless Israeli's, and secular Jewish Zionists. I noticed that while they say that they are fighting for the Jewish people, they would much rather Spit on the Torah than actually follow what it says. And then if I say anything remotely resembling something non-Zionistic about Israel, I get some secular schmuck, who has probably never even herd of the Sabbath, calling me a self hating Jew!!
Don't get me wrong!! I don't support the Palestinians and their actions. But, after seeing the Secular government, politics and people of Israel and their constant hatred for the religious Jews, and a flagrant willingness to piss on the Torah, I can not in good conscience support Israel anymore.
If these feeling makes me a bad Jew in your eyes than obviously you don't know me very well!
