The financial system changed. Payday Loans stay constant.

The entire financial system and all the money rules have changed in the past few months.

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All of a sudden, nothing works and I desperately need Payday Loans. The engineering office that I am still attached to by a thin piece of string has lost 3 projects in the past week. Someone up there leaned over and turned off the tap. So the little retainer they have been paying me is on its way to the horizon. My second job, writing for a casino flew out of sight with a spin of the roulette wheel last week.   Thank goodness my insurance company continues to take 7 short articles per week. My small portfolio in the stock exchange looks like it’s been through a shredder.

Losing jobs, several extra jobs just to get by.  Stock losses.  Does this sound like you and your friends?

The good news

There is a glimmer of good news. I have nothing to do with any of the above bad news. The good news is that I am the same person that I was a few months back when the phrase ‘sub prime mortgages’ came rumbling over the hills. I haven’t changed strategy; I write in the same style, I make sure that everything that leaves my creaky old computer is in perfect English.

The bad news

Basically, the news is all bad. I’m sure I saw a look in the new president’s eyes yesterday as he was being nailed to the dome of the Capitol. He was looking around to see if there was a way out. Or could it be that he really enjoys a challenge. He has one, all right. As for me, should I apply for Payday Loans now when I know I will need them more urgently next month, and the month after? Are daisy-chain or monthly Payday Loans available yet?

The worse news

The bad news doesn’t stop and clearly there is no bottom to this barrel. No one was surprised the see the U.S. stock exchanges go into free-fall on inauguration day. It simply behaved like it behaves every day.  Why did I think that a new president could pull a rabbit out of his hat in his first hour in office?

Anyone got a map?

Will a map and flashlight help us to see what’s coming? Is there anyone out there who can actually tell what’s in store for us? Should I give up writing as a means of making pocket money or should I go back to painting and try to become an old master? I’m sure I will get the ‘old’ part right eventually.

Who is responsible?

Who decided to move the goal-posts in the middle of my game anyway? Here I am, working hard, paying my taxes, my wife is supporting all the stores in town and both of us are looking forward to a long, happy and worry-free golden age with a good pension so we can continue to live in the manner we are accustomed to.

Someone stuck his foot in our path and changed the rules of the game. It’s just not fair, is it? Where’s the umpire? Playing in another league, I bet. Now about that Payday Loan we were discussing…