First post...Introduction

Well I guess the first thing you do with these things is type an introduction so here's mine.

A little about me: I am a man rapidly approaching the age of 30 living in New Jersey. I, like many others in this country, have become a victim of this lovely current economic climate, which is to say I am unemployed. I am pretty opinionated, which seems to be a requirement to be a good blogger, so there it is. I was born and raised in NJ, attended college here and would very much like to live here the rest of my life, raising little Jersey boys and girls in the process. It's not that I don't like other places, it's just that this is my home and I love it.

What to expect reading this: Right now my plan is to combine random catastrophies and occasional victories that people should hear about (at least I think so) combined with my opinion, rants and occasional raging entries about current events, politics and anything else I see as interesting and wirth writing about.

My pipe-dream: Of course all bloggers want theirs to take off...have tons of readers...blah blah blah...And I'm one of them. Ideally in addition to sharing my views I hope to do my small part to give a face to the struggling middle class...you know the ones that Congress cashes in on constantly, but refuses to do anything to help. There are certainly those less fortunate then me and I see people talking about them all the time and of course those more fortunate then me and good luck trying to get them to shut up, but I really feel like the middle has no voice so I lend mine to it as best I can. So many programs are geared to the lower rungs of society, and yes I agree with that to a point, but it's rarely the upper rungs that pay for it though they can with what their servants pull out of their overpriced (and usually tacky) couches but no. We in the middle bear the load and don't get the credit so there will be things of that nature here.