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MrSlayer

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21. I'm right there too.

Reply to DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav (Reply #19)

Fri Jan 25, 2013, 02:04 AM

Jan 2013

Out of work over a year and a half, only worked in 18 of the 48 months of the Obama administration, savings gone, retirement money nearly depleted, unemployment running out in 8 weeks. My poor wife is working three and four part time shit jobs just to keep us from starving to death. Unemployment barely covers the rent.

No one has money for side work either.

I'm beyong frustrated. I'm infuriated, trrrified and getting desperate. I never thought this would happen to me. I never thought the goddamn Bush years would be the height of my career.

And all this because the greedy sons of bitches that own our congress can't plunder with full impunity. They're going to punish us for the next four years as they did the last four.

Something's got to give.

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