Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[Charles]

Originally Posted by icenine

Even for Ohio $10 bucks has to be barely enough to scrape by on. What is awful is that my wife makes about the same here in Cali....at a Casino. She is more fortunate because of course she has my income to fall back on. But it has to be hell on earth for anyone making so low an amount here without another income to fall back on. That is why everyone is working three jobs when one used to do.

It's tough sledding out there, and I feel sorry for anyone who is chained to the millstone of debt...whether they have a good job or not. The good job can disappear in a heartbeat. Debt doesn't.

Since I don't hang out with the ultra wealthy, the few people I know who are not only comfortable, but confident, are those who made enough to rathole a pile, those that inherited a pile, an insurance agent who managed both, a few with private pensions, and mostly those with a government pension. And they're not rich...but safe...for the time being.

But for the average couple, with two jobs, two kids, two cars, a house, a credit card...and are basically just paying interest on all of it...I can see how a few months of hard luck will leave them on the street.

And I don't see things improving that much, if at all.

Chas

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Charles

The good job can disappear in a heartbeat.

I noticed.

[icenine]

John C. Calhoun will never die it seems:

http://www.metropulse.com/news/2013/...nullify-feder/

[icenine]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3845586.html

[icenine]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...cs&ir=Politics

[piece-itpete]

Ah so

I shouldn't have expected much from that job, after all it was a 2 question employment exam - 1) can you prove you're 18? 2) Show me 4-5/8" on this tape measure. Good, you start tomorrow

They largely got what they paid for too. Parties in the parking lot at lunch, came in basically when we felt like it, etc.

It was also the present and past.

Pete

[Zeke]

Any sum that can made wherein a hard working individual cannot support a family in modest comfort while working 40-45 hours per week is too low.

[icenine]

I am beginning to see two Americas...an older, pension supported elderly population that is being augmented with social security payments....you know the types you see at Casino buffets feeding the slot machines in-between stuffing themselves. I sort of include myself in this category

and everyone else. People barely making it. Many of these are younger people....low wages, no health care, not really having a stake in society.

[icenine]

I guess the old XTC song off of English Settlement didi not go down too well in NC lol

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nation...,2792868.story

[Wasillaguy]

If the gun manufacturers control the NRA as some like to claim, why is the NRA against destruction of confiscated guns?