Well, I'm Farked!
Yesterday I met my wife for lunch. On the way out the door to meet me she was handed a letter from the new President. It is a hiring freeze across the whole federal government, of which my wife works. This now means we are stuck in a "Grey Area". Thanks to his actions we are sitting in a house full of boxes that were set to be shipped to Italy February 6th. As of right now, we are stuck in limbo. We don't know if, or when we will go.
My landlord just started showing the house we have been renting for the last 5 years to prospective tenants. We just signed a 1 year lease with a storage facility to house our car, our truck and camper and 1/3 of our belongings at $1000 a month, that was to be reimbursed to us as part of the agreement on us going to Italy, that we now have to pay for. We just spent $1600 buying our way out of our cell phone agreement (paying off phones and early cancellation, non refundable), we just gave our refrigerator and much of our furniture to our daughter and moved all that this past weekend. We donated electric heaters, window mounted air conditioners and many other items we weren't going to be able to use on 220V in Italy.
All in all, when everything's said and done, this will cost us $20k.
I know there is a thread going in the off topic section regarding politics. Personally, I think it's a subject we should stay away from here on Boomboxery. It tends to go south very fast.
But I just want to say, when the president says "I'm going to deport 15 million people" or "I'm going to dismantle the health care system" or "I'm going to_______(fill in the blank)". there are actual people affected by his actions.
Yesterday, at 11 am I was working towards a bright new future after my wife and I have worked so hard to dig our way out of losing our home of 15 years in the crash of 2007. We left that house with two cars we owed money on, some furniture and around 30 radios. By 12:30 pm yesterday I was GUTTED once more by the actions of the president of the "United" states. Personally, I see nothing "United" about the united states and I find it ever increasingly hard to have an "American Dream". Every 4 or 8 years a new arsehole comes in a screws the pooch again.
So, we will now sit here waiting to see where the dice will land. Could take 1 day, could take 3 months, could never happen. I'll be hemorrhaging money in the process of waiting.