Alli Stouff-ism

Probably a year or two ago, I told someone that I wanted to live in DC. They said, “DC is that serious city, where everyone wears black.”

So, I’ve totally noticed a I twice as much black as I ever have! So strange, I know. It’s just easy to look professional in black!

the healthcare mess eloquently expressed

lazz:

“I mean, American people are being locked into a for-profit insurance structure. And we have to ask ourselves, why is this the best that we can do? Why should we settle for this without fighting back? Why shouldn’t we insist that a robust public option is the only way to make sure that the American people really have a fighting chance with the insurance companies? As it is now, the government is going to be subsidizing the insurance companies.

And we’re being told all the time, that our options keep getting limited. We were told last year the only way people could get unemployment benefits is if Congress votes for war, the only way we can pass a hate crime is if Congress votes for war, the only way we can get housing is to give Wall Street a bailout. And that didn’t put people back in—most people back in their homes who lost them. You know, we’re going to get jobs by giving Wall Street a bailout; that didn’t work. Businesses are going to be helped by giving Wall Street a bailout; that didn’t work.

Our whole economy is being organized in a way that takes the wealth of the nation and sends it right to the top. And this healthcare bill is no different. And we’ve got to fight back, and that’s why I could not vote for this. If we were able to get a single payer—to protect the right of states to have a single-payer plan, maybe the bill would have been worth voting for. But that was taken out. So what are we left with? Private, for-profit health insurance, with the government subsidizing it.”

-Dennis Kucinich

My mom’s friend said once, “I always had a job, never a career.” It never really meant anything to me now. I want a career. And, I want to start building it now.

Jobs come up more easily than you think, but the choices to make for your career come up less often, and are sometimes harder to take… only because there is so much more risk.

Needless to say, I’m having one of those moments.