Carlos Boozer Hit Hard By Rough Economy

Are those 22"s? You poor bastard

Even though it’s kind of a douchey thing to say, I’ve always wanted to counter somebody bringing up the struggling economy with “ain’t no recession at my house!”  I’d be contractually obligated to follow that up with high fives and by ‘making it rain’.  I suppose if you want to get technical, there isn’t a recession at my house.  But there sure as hell is a recession at the overpass where I sleep.  Thank God those crackheads chipped in for Internet service. 

Carlos Boozer could presumably say ‘ain’t no recession at the Boozer house’, but it doesn’t seem likely.  You might be thinking, oh he must be too humble or he doesn’t want to rub it in for the people who are really struggling.  Yeah, Carlos went to Duke.  The only time he cares about the less fortunate is when they are late bringing his car around at the country club.  The real reason he’s not bragging about his financial status is because he is under the impression that he’s having a tough time of it.  I guess $13-million per year doesn’t stretch as far as it used to. 

“It’s still tough when you get hit by the taxes we get hit by. We’re all going through a tough time right now financially, but at the same time to live in a place where you don’t have to pay state tax, you can leave a little bit more of the money that you earn in your bank account”

That would be Boozer’s rationale for wanting to bolt from Utah and join the Heat.  He wants to keep more money in his bank account.  I’m sure those NBA fans across the country who would like to put some money into a bank account understand completely.  I never really thought about how hard it would be to have to pay an incredible amount of money to the government each year.  Boozer probably paid more money in taxes last year than I’ve made in my life, that must have really taken its toll.  You know, it’s true what they say, the more money you come across, the more problems you see.  That’s why I’ve decided to stop playing the lottery…paying all the tax that comes with it would probably kill me. 

I feel bad for Carlos, I really do, but there’s a negative side to his comments.  All those poor souls who have been scraping by in this economy, collecting unemployment and living paycheck to paycheck just lost all hope.  They are trying to make ends meet in their minimum wage jobs and now they find out that even $13-million per year isn’t enough to get by on.  Even if they made roughly 900-times what they make now, they’d still have it tough.  America, your lower class is officially on suicide watch.  Somebody should tell them to move to Florida so they don’t have to pay state tax.

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Tags: basketball, Carlos Boozer, Miami Heat, NBA, Utah Jazz

1 Comment to Carlos Boozer Hit Hard By Rough Economy

Paneech
July 30, 2009

Class act, I’m glad the Cavs ridded Cleveland of him

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