I like to think of myself as a modest person. In fact, I’m more self-deprecating than braggadocios. I don’t toot my personal horn that often and underplay my achievements. I’m more embarrassed by compliments than most people, and I’m not all that socially graceful. I keep to myself as much as I can.
That’s me.
I’ve lived a modest life. I’ve earned a modest salary all my life and live now with my family on a modest pension and a modest amount of social security. I earned both. The social security I earned by working since I was old enough to work by law, and before that with my brother on his paper routes. He took two of them when he was eleven so I could do one and we could split the money. The pension I earned by teaching for more than 30 years.
We live in a modest home. We wear modest clothes, not name brands. We could maybe afford name brands, but we’d have to cut corners somewhere else. I buy refurbished computers and not even current state-of-the-art-ones at that, just solid, refurbished, durable computers.
We have second or third generation cell phones. I have a galaxy S8 plus that I bought refurbished now close to two years ago when the S9s were out and the S10s just coming out. We don’t eat steak or expensive sea food much and when we dine out, it’s the normal “family” places, not the fancy places. My $24,000 freezer isn’t filled with $12/pint ice cream. Oh, I forgot, that’s Nancy Pelosi.
I retired six years ago. But on our modest income I couldn’t afford to stay retired. So last year I went back to work.
This morning I mailed out a two thousand dollar “estimated tax” check to the IRS. I only work part time but the people who do my taxes said I have to pay quarterly taxes now, that the wonderful government you see on TV not protecting us from the anarchists burning up our cities and looting our stores is going to take about 30% of my part-time income.
I know all you regular people feel my pain. I know you’re thinking what I’m thinking. Part of that $2000 will be used to pay for welfare, medical care, food, housing, education and clothing for illegal aliens. Part of that $2000 will go to pay the salaries of people like Chuckie-boy Schumer and Nancy twenty-four-thousand-dollar-freezer-twelve-dollar-a-pint-ice-cream Pelosi, the one who just had to have her hair done in the closed salon. She’s the modern-day Marie Antoinette.
And so it goes.
I write this modest little piece that will be read by a modest number of people who already recognize the vanity, immodesty and hypocrisy of those who would, in their own hubris and narcissism, call themselves our Democrat leaders.
