Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All

I often find our imaginary monetary world hard to understand. Since our money is not backed by anything tangible, we get to make it worth whatever we can collectively believe it to be. We operate and depend on a system of mass delusion.

I don’t think the United States will ever get out of debt. Our national debt continues to grow decade after decade. Will we ever be a creditor nation again? I don’t think so. We’re not even pretending to be interested in such a change.

Now there’s talk of another stimulus package—meaning our government is going to give us back some of our money again. When MoneyNing asked what happened to my first stimulus check, I really had to think about it. I couldn’t remember. It didn’t make that big of an impact in my life.

I think I put it towards a credit card bill. I would have paid off the bill in full anyway, but the rebate saved me some money. If the government is looking to pad stats, I suppose I would have to say that I bought something with that $600. Even if I really saved it.

If I got another check soon, I would probably do the same thing. I would spend it? While saving my own money?

See, I don’t understand my own imaginary monetary world too well either.

Do you remember what you did with your first government check? Would you deal with an extra $600 differently this time around?

Tags: Governance, Money by Ms. SP
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I’ve never liked ghost stories. I will not watch horror movies or visit a haunted house. But once upon a time, Halloween was still fun. Who doesn’t love chocolate and a bit of fantasy right?

But now, it’s getting to the point where I don’t even want to walk my dog in the dark.

In the continuing trend of decorating the heck out of everything for as long as possible, all things orange start going up on October 1. And man has the decor changed from when I was a kid. There are still pumpkins and door-hang skeletons, but it is just as likely that I will walk by a realistic graveyard, a vulture in a tree, or a motion-activated porch ghoul.

There are even those with fog machines.

When I’m taking the dog out on his nightly walk, I do not want unidentifiable lumps in yards. I don’t want mysteriously moving things yelling at me in the dark. And I definitely do not want anything jumping out at me.

How do kids cope with all of this when it has become a bit too freaky for me?

sigh. Where’s the Christian right when you need them?<-joke

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I think I was one of the original fans who actually gave the latest movie, I Want to Believe, a thumbs-up. It was smart enough and surprisingly subtle. It was so subtle that a lot of people missed the plot points and the intended narrative. Huh, a light touch from The X-Files?

The last movie allowed me to reconnect with the series, the characters, and my past addiction. So when I read about this news about a possible third installment of The X-Files movie franchise, I didn’t go screaming down the hall while tearing my hair out. I don’t even want to hurt Chris Carter.

It’s an interesting and alien (groan) sensation.

Tags: Movies, TV by Ms. SP
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