WTF: A TARP Wife’s Tale Of Woe, This Chick is Out of her Damn Mind!!!

So yesterday news broke up regarding the Portfolio.com article by a mystery “TARP wife”. For those of you who haven’t read about this article. It chronicles that devastating poverty (note my sarcasm) of the wife of a investment CEO. She details day to day experiences such as shopping in her own closet, forgoing a Michelin-starred restaurant for her husband’s birthday celebration and –gasp- reveals the fact that she has not bought anything but pantyhose and makeup this year. I seriously doubt that last statement but still life must be just SO horrible when you can only spend money on your high end makeup toiletries. I mean this lady is really cutting back where it matters! She has stopped using her house accounts at high end luxury department stores and only uses them for necessary gifts. I’m sure most people would love to have house account at moderately priced stores or even just the supermarket these days. I might feel more empathy and less apathy towards her situation if she at least had to close her house accounts at the luxury department stores. I mean sure there are people out there that have it worse but at least that would be a significant change from the lifestyle she is accustomed to.

NY Magazine’s Daily Intel is hypothesizing that the mystery TARP wife is Liz Peek, wife of CITI Group’s Jeffrey Peek. I’m not trying to be hard on ‘TARP’ wife. In fact I think its sweet that she’s sticking with her TARP husband and all. There are perhaps a few ladies out there that would have jumped shipped on their significant other during this time period. Anyone who returns lavish birthday presents from her husband to save money and doesn’t share that burden of information with him to save his ego and emotions, has to be a good person. And while I released a flurry of sarcastic comments in the first paragraph, I do feel some empathy for this lady. Sure, she’s still living a life that even by her own admission is still wealthy but her life HAS changed and it is different from the life that she has known; thus her new life requires some adjustments that she is not used to.

It wasn’t long ago that America celebrated successful companies and the people who run them. My husband, CEO of one of the biggest TARP recipients, has received more than his share of accolades (in my opinion, well deserved). But because of a few tin-eared nitwits who failed to notice that their industry was under siege, the entire country now thinks that TARP bankers are greedy incompetents dedicated to ripping off taxpayers. “TARP Wife”

This is reminiscent of a ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation’. And not matter what TARP wife says or does we will still bitterly criticize and judge the comments of this privileged woman who reaps the benefits of her Wall Street husbands riches. TARP wife should realize that there are repercussions to EVERYTHING. So yes, you live a plush life but you must understand that harsh judgment and less empathy are your bed mates. If the judgment and apathy one encounters with a plush life are too much of a nuisance I suppose you could always downgrade your income and supplement it with all the understanding a middle class income can give you.

"G"

Maven Moment: That Bullshit!!!

Last night after eating one of the best Easter Sunday dinners that I have ever had in my 26 years on this earth my tooth began to hurt. I really didn't think nothing of it because like all of us it happens sometimes. But nah, this particular tooth was on a mission to shut the rest of my night down. And to tell you all the truth it really did. I broke out with a mean sweat and a vicious headache that had me up all night and damn near in tears( I know not really manly right but fuck it!). Some how I fell asleep around 12am while my woman was downstairs handling some business. I thought after taking some pain meds I would be cool in the morning, morning in my mind meant 8:15ish. But the tooth decided that 4am was a good time for me to get up and suffer. So I was really mad and my head started pounding again and that was that.

Around 9 my woman made me a much needed appointment at the dentist and I got dressed and rushed over there. After 10mins of filling out paper work and hearing little kids crying and grown men cussing, I walk back to the chair to take my few x-rays. After another 10mins the dentist comes out and gives me the good news "You need a Root canal or I can pull it for you"!! I'm like WTF, it was just a toothache and a mean headache and now I need this expensive ass procedure done or this pain is never going away. Damn, stay focused G!! So I sit there and talk to him about the pro's and con's of the procedure and what not. Then the lady at the front desk comes back and shows me how much it cost's for both. Check this shit out, it costs $1,867 for the Root canal and $265 to get the tooth pulled!!! Once again I'm like WTF at the price, damn ain't it a recession out here why the hell does it still cost so much? This office has flat screen tvs in front of every chair, they sure don't need all this money from me right?! Wrong they are working hard to get it from me. SO now as I write this post I'm trying to figure out what to do next. The sad thing about it is that I don't have a choice, I'm going to have to get that damn Root Canal!! I thought being a Maven was about being stylish and fly at all times, no one ever said that your teeth could mess up and destroy your week!! Damn now that's $1,867 that could go to a new suit or a bunch of other stuff. DAMN!!!


"G"

Hey Asshole, That's My Car!

I'm not into gossip but this is funny to me on so many levels, if it was me I would have had to beat my Chef's ass for this check this out:

Lead singer of band Jamiroquai, Jay Kay quite popularly, had a thing for fast cars and a drunken chef just managed to hit him exactly where it hurts. Apparently, Aaron Billington, 21 pleaded guilty of causing damage to Jay Kay’s £1million (US $1.5 million) 227mph black Ferrari Enzo. Billington and other staff had been drinking with Jay Kay and prosecutors claimed that the chef was behaving “arrogantly” and “aggressively” after the singer started making comments which he found offensive. In the fit of anger, the chef decided to vandalize the singer’s 5 year old motor when he was off duty for which a $40,000 worth of damage was incurred. That’s one expensive wreck! But Jay Kay could do with his Aston Martin DB5, Lamborghini Miura SV, or his Mercedes 300 SL Roadster till that baby gets back in shape!

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Our Government flies prisoner from Guantanamo Bay to Britain in a luxury airliner and we have to pay for it!! WTF!

As if the current inflation wasn’t enough to make the average homes bankrupt, the poor taxpayers have been made to foot an estimated bill of $250,000! Why? For the return to Britain of an Ethiopian held at Guantanamo Bay. The government flew this prisoner, Binyam Mohamed to London in a luxury flight. Security and surveillance costs covering Binyam Mohamed's life in Britain will add an estimated $150,000 to the $100,000 paid to hire a plane for him. The guy was accused of being involved in an Al Qaeda 'dirty bomb' plot. But all charges against him were dropped last year. The government has definitely been criticized for its decidion to fly this prisioner in a Gulfstream jet. The jet, with a crew of three, was chartered jointly by the Foreign Office and the Home Office and at least four Metropolitan Police officers, two Foreign Office officials and a doctor were on board . They collected Mohamed, then flew back to London. The passengers all relaxed in this luxury jet liner that offered leather swivel chairs, personal DVD players and free cosmetics in two mahogany paneled toilets. This irrational spending has definitely created much anger and anguish among the tax payers who are already hurting from the recession.... Just in case you don't know about this plane, check this out