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I am doing better. I changed jobs to do something different and to get a higher salary in the process. I also moved so I could buy a house right after the housing crash.
I adapted to the recession. If I would have kept my same job and not moved, I would have been must worse now.
Too bad more people didn't go your direction. However, there may not have been enough new, better paying jobs to go around.
I think having one of the leading RWNJ's bitching about Medicaid is hilarious. Big government welfare is bad but his personal big government welfare is good.
Be true to yourself and refuse all government payment for anything.
But Greg I have been paying on Medicare since its inception and you want to make Medicare the same as Medicaid and they just aren't the same thing. Maybe someday when you reach the age of SS retirement and are forced onto Medicare you will begin to see beyond you present left leaning bent.
Much, much worse. Some of it is my own fault but much of it has to do with the horrible state of the economy since then and I've seen very little improvement.
It is a whole hell of a lot harder to find an actual full time job. Everyone wants to give part time, no one wants to give benefits, (insurance, etc), no one wants to give hours, they want you to work as a temp or seasonal or independent.
Prices are ridiculously higher than they used to be not just in gas but for Crying Out LOUD! wth!!!!!! with the meat prices??!?!
And that stuff never goes back down. It just keeps going up. Oh sure, it'll go down 5 cents for a week or so or a month but then back on up it creeps.
Wages are lower. Hours are fewer. Everyone wants to be the priority but no one wants to offer anything that allows you to make them the priority because you're too busy busting your arse at the three other jobs you have just trying to make it because the prices are out of control and you have no fricken medical or dental insurance so GOD FORBID anything happens. Even something small can put a huge dent in your budget.
In 2009, I had a full time job, a savings, insurance, and while prices were higher than I wanted them to be, it seems they have almost doubled in two years. Hmm, our wages are not reflecting that.
I most certainly blame St. Hope and Change for it since he decided it was a splendid idea to bail everyone out, except, that is, the working stiff. Oh sorry, I think I got $9 on his "tax break". Wooohoo!
I blame all the idiots who allowed the housing crisis to happen and I blame all the idiots who bought what they couldn't afford.
I'm just trying to get by and I'm tired of paying for everyone's mistakes and greed. Yah, it's definitely changed in two years.
Kind of a mixed bag here. Underwater on my house (slightly), increase in salary, wife found a good job, we paid off several debts, will soon have nothing but the mortgage. We are thankful to have weathered the recession this well.
It is a whole hell of a lot harder to find an actual full time job. Everyone wants to give part time, no one wants to give benefits, (insurance, etc), no one wants to give hours, they want you to work as a temp or seasonal or independent.
Prices are ridiculously higher than they used to be not just in gas but for Crying Out LOUD! wth!!!!!! with the meat prices??!?!
And that stuff never goes back down. It just keeps going up. Oh sure, it'll go down 5 cents for a week or so or a month but then back on up it creeps.
Wages are lower. Hours are fewer. Everyone wants to be the priority but no one wants to offer anything that allows you to make them the priority because you're too busy busting your arse at the three other jobs you have just trying to make it because the prices are out of control and you have no fricken medical or dental insurance so GOD FORBID anything happens. Even something small can put a huge dent in your budget.
In 2009, I had a full time job, a savings, insurance, and while prices were higher than I wanted them to be, it seems they have almost doubled in two years. Hmm, our wages are not reflecting that.
I most certainly blame St. Hope and Change for it since he decided it was a splendid idea to bail everyone out, except, that is, the working stiff. Oh sorry, I think I got $9 on his "tax break". Wooohoo!
I blame all the idiots who allowed the housing crisis to happen and I blame all the idiots who bought what they couldn't afford.
I'm just trying to get by and I'm tired of paying for everyone's mistakes and greed. Yah, it's definitely changed in two years.
I think this is kicker. That damn housing bubble was a royal screw job for the whole country, except the few that it launched into the stratosphere for ill-gotten gains (boomer property owners on the coasts, mortgage and realty folks, and Wall Street scum).
Moving forward with my career, making more money then I ever thought I would, possibly moving back to my home state, one year old little girl, son is doing good in school.
I blame all the idiots who allowed the housing crisis to happen and I blame all the idiots who bought what they couldn't afford.
And these "idiots" should also be credited for the "good economic times" of the 2000s... if you saw any.
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