Alice in Wonderland High on Peyote Smoke

I guess this means official business and I am not in dream land anymore. It's going to be a little hard adjusting to the new role. And yes, that is $44,000 monopoly money. Not to be a whiner or anything, but I am expected to pay back nearly $250 grand in student loans on that meager salary. Not that it is impossible. Based on my calculation, $3600 gross take home, 25% of which is the government's take, which leaves me with $2700 or there abouts, minus $2000 for the loans, leaving $700 for rent, transport, food and other stuff necessary for the survival of humankind. I just wont get to eat, sleep over a covered roof or shower for the next three years. Frightening prospect. While it may help me loose weight, I probably won't be appreciated for the bodily odor I will be giving off. So, a gentle reminder. Congress is going to pass a law that will prevent people like me from deferring those loans based on economic hardship. If we don't stop those knuckle heads on Capitol Hill now, residents will be smelling worse than their patients. Click the link below to write to your congressman and knock some senses into those politicians who seem to have no clue of the difference between living and surviving (especially since they take home way more that $44,000 a year for their "service" to the people). Somehow, I feel really under appreciated and unloved. I think the inmates making driver's licenses on Rikers make more money for their "community service". On top of that, they had cut Medicare reimbursements by 10% effective January 1st. Now some of you may think that doctors make a ton of money, but I can tell you that some do. Most are just barely scraping by. I hate to say this: (but) you just need doctors around. Keep cutting their benefits and incentives and soon, there'd be more sick people than the system can manage and you will be farming your healthcare out to India and China. This would mean that one will have to learn to speak mandarin or hindi to communicate with one's physician. If that is your language of choice, then, all power to you. Cutting medicare reimbursements is not the way to go. Using residents, who are serving the community, as slave labor without allowing them the choice of managing their debt how they would want to in order to capitalize on their expandable income is also not the way to go.

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