January 20th 2010
A lot has happened in the last year. Our country, United States of America has changed so much I don't recall what it was like before. We are not free anymore. The Constitution was deemed unconstitutional last May. My contract position ended last July. It was not very good timing since the market crashed in June. Jobs just pretty much dried up after that. Luckily I pulled my savings out of the bank before it failed in May, and since the FDIC was broke too if I had not gotten it out in time we would have lost everything. I've had enough to pay my mortgage for the last 7 months not many more. I was a project manager, made a more than decent living. I had health insurance and even dental. Last November I got sick with a cold and it took nearly a month before I felt better, probably didn't help I wasn't eating too well.
Beef has been impossible to get, chicken is a little easier, but we can only have it about once a week it costs $15 for a small bird. My husband used to be a chef so he uses one chicken for 3 meals. First he roasts it then he uses the bones for soup, finally he uses the rest for chicken stew. It's good. The rest of the days we mostly have cereal. I don't like the powdered milk. I miss a steak even though I hardly ate steak much a year ago. Pork is bad they won't let us have it anymore, some kind of virus. I tried to go to the Federal Health Clinic, but the first appointment I could get wasn't for 3 weeks and would have cost $20.00 who has that kind of money? I still have my cough.
No one likes the new laws; you can't go out after dark. It takes me almost a full day to go to the market and get bread, vegetables and fruit the lines are forever. Once I get through one and go to the next I'm lucky if there's anything left. Then I pretty much have to run to make it home by dark. Gas is so expensive at $12.00 a gallon I've taken to walking there to only takes about an hour and a half one way. I've been robbed a couple times lost as much as $10.00 once.
The new civil police are pretty cruel and if you are not careful they'll take you to the buses. No one is really sure where they take you in the buses; no one I know has come back after they take you away. There's no court anymore. Once they get you for breaking one of the new laws there's no trial. They took our neighbor Mark a couple weeks ago because one of his kids tried to steal a head of lettuce; he took the blame. Sara his wife took the kids to her Mom's in Connecticut and left a note for him if he comes back. I hope they make it there ok. Their house has been dark since. We only have power for 3 hours a night. I guess they've had trouble getting people down to work the coal mines since the riots took place in the Appalachians.
We used to get the Federal Press Newspaper but it stopped coming around Christmas, no one knows why. The TV doesn't have much on. There is not much information on the news, mostly just stories about people finding their dogs and stuff. Luckily I still have my Sadie.
On the first of every month President Obama talks on TV, but it's usually the same speech about how we need to be strong as a nation during this Depression. Change is coming; you know same stuff as before.
Before the government took over the TV we learned of the Union between China and Europe. That didn't seem to go over well. There were so many riots and militia forces they stopped transmitting it. I remember the internet, email and Newsvine. That used to be so much fun. I used to write a lot of stories back then. I still have my laptop, but can't connect to anything now; cable went out of business last September. The only TV we have is hooked up to the converter box we got from the government, it only works on the really old sets. It's all documentary films like I used to watch in grade school.
Well that's it for today. I'm going to hide this they really don't like us keeping diaries. I hope I can see my kids soon.
"Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny." -- Richard M. Ebeling
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