Reply #18: Let's break this one down, point by point. [View All]

[Amerigo Vespucci]

1). "You could be describing me" No, I'm not. I don't know you.

2). "I've got no kids" Good for you. I know yuppies with kids who still spend like drunken sailors on shore leave.

(please note: if any drunken sailors are reading this post, please do not reply with "so now you're attacking drunken sailors?" No, I'm not I was merely using it as an example. Have another drink and chill out).

3). "My partner and I make a good living" See response to #2 above.

4). "We both studied hard" So did I. So did a lot of people.

5). "went to grad school" Got me on that one. I didn't. But see #2 above anyway.

6). "He runs his own business" So do I.

7). "I'm an RN" A great profession. Congratulations.

8). "I don't understand posts like yours" To be great is to be misunderstood, so thanks for that. I knew I was great before you misunderstood me, now I feel somewhat...greater.

9). "Are we supposed to live in sack-cloth and ashes and donate all our disposable income to those who have less disposable income?" I'd spend some quite time contemplating the anger and attitude behind that statement. Some people donate to the less fortunate with income that is far from disposable, and I do it with a sense of joy, not resentment. Remember:

Every one of us is a very short distance from becoming one of "those who have less disposable income."

10). "And why should our income have anything to do with why any of that would make us republicans." OK, that's where you lost me, which resulted in my reciprocal "I don't understand posts like yours" comment.

So my apologies if you took what I said about a shopping experience in Trader Joe's to be a personal attack on you and your S.O., two people I don't know.

Whether I could have been describing you or not, I wasn't.

My suggestion is to put me on ignore. I won't take it personally.