So I’m sure many of you guys have noticed that lately you don’t really have as much money/job as you used to have. I’m totally with you. (Not true.) Well, this item should pique your interest: I read an article today about how the House and the Senate agreed on a $789 billion stimulus plan! And yeah, I know what you must be thinking — “Sure, Kelly, I read about that, too. But what does it even mean?” To tell you the truth, it took a lot of digging to find that out for myself. But you’ve landed in the right spot, guys. I think I can put this in terms even you can understand.

So, let’s say that the House and the Senate are me and my landlord, respectively. And let’s say that my apartment is infested with mice; every time it rains the roof leaks and the basement floods; the front door is broken and I live in a bad neighborhood; etc. So I write up a bunch of the things that need to be done in order for my apartment to remain livable and I bring them to my landlord. He looks at them and says, “All right.” Then after a few weeks I go back to him and say, “Hey Mr. Landlord, when do you think you’re gonna get to all of those things?” And he says, “Oh, we can’t do all of those things — we’ll poke some holes in the ceiling so the rain will drain easier, though, and we can set a few traps.” And then I become teary-eyed in gratitude and run away before he can take any of it back. 

You get it now? I guess the moral of the story is that you have to take what you can get. And you can always do some at-first-glance-unnoticeable damage before you move out.

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