37 Facts About How Cruel This Economy Has Been To Millions Of Desperate American Families

[SomethingFishy]

31. I'm in that "40%"..

My wife became ill and my savings dried up. After not receiving a raise for 7 years I went to my boss and explained my situation. I needed a raise, not for new cars or a house, but to be able to pay my bills and know if something happened I would have something to fall back on for a time until something else came up. I was told "sorry there is just no money to give you a raise".

This year my boss took 3 vacations in europe, bought a condo to go with his 2 houses, a new car and who knows what else. The client I handle bought a private jet, a new 4 million dollar house and didn't like the shape of the pond at his new house so he paid over a million to have it reshaped. But there was no money to give me even a cost of living raise after 7 years of service. Let me also say that in the year before I got this gig 6 other people had been sitting in my chair and every one of them got fired because they couldn't handle the gig. I came in and have lasted 7 years.

Then 2 weeks ago I found out that next week is it. Our client is taking off for 5 months, leaving me out of work, with no savings.

Luckily I am good at my job and can probably get another gig fairly quick. But there are no guarantees.