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Demo_Chris

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15. For some of us there have never been good times.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #14)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:36 AM

Jan 2013

Unions, benefits, healthcare, pensions, a living wage? Those things belong to a time that existed before I was born.

My entire working life has been a series of recessions, one after another, with no recovery for anyone but the top. With each, the jobs lost were gone forever. The factory's that closed were closed forever. And the layoffs, well those impacted the guys on the bottom first. The top got richer, the middle slowly crumbled, and the bottom were curb stomped over and over and over again.

Bill Cinton passed NAFTA and gutted welfare.

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The future Social Security problem we SHOULD be worrying about [View all] SoCalDem Jan 2013 OP

But that's the GOP plan my dear. Sadly, its looking like the Dem plan too. MichiganVote Jan 2013 #1

Agree...they have run out of "Bubbles" ....so Low Wage American Workers KoKo Jan 2013 #5

Yes, this is part of the plan... TheProgressive Jan 2013 #2

That is John2 Jan 2013 #3

I've been thinking quite a bit about this. LWolf Jan 2013 #4

Well...they tell us we are "lazy" and expect hand outs. KoKo Jan 2013 #6

Yes - this is really, really on point Yo_Mama Jan 2013 #7

I started paying into SS when I was only 11...and paid in for 50+ years.. My check each month SoCalDem Jan 2013 #8

Yup - a whole lot of working people are facing retirements on three hots and a cot Yo_Mama Jan 2013 #9

Are you saying that you feel your benefits are too generous? KoKo Jan 2013 #10

I'm saying that this is probably the BEST that future retirees could hope for SoCalDem Jan 2013 #11

Ok....but what do you think our President in Second Term would do about that? KoKo Jan 2013 #12

I have no idea what can be done at this point... SoCalDem Jan 2013 #13

if you did not save during the "good times:, you're fucked Skittles Jan 2013 #14

For some of us there have never been good times. Demo_Chris Jan 2013 #15

I am in the IT industry Skittles Jan 2013 #17

SS doesn't have the funds to pay promised benefits within the lives of current workers Romulox Jan 2013 #16

There's class war and generational war... Demo_Chris Jan 2013 #18

I've had DUer tell me, straight up, that they'll be gone in 2035, and they don't care. Romulox Jan 2013 #19