I just gotta vent a little. I was out by the neighborhood swimming pool and was talking with a new neighbor. He, his wife, and three small children rented a house across from me about a month or two back. He and his wife are both in the construction trade and moved down here from Virginia to find work. He started telling me how hard it was because construction is so slow right now. They are already past due on their rent and cannot make this months payment. Then he said they didn't even have enough money to buy a pack of chicken. What really got me is this. The entire time he is crying poor mouth his wife is puffing away on cigarettes. Well, if she would stop buying cigarettes at a cost of over $3 per pack they just might be able to buy some chicken to eat.