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In reply to the discussion: Read this, then ask yourself: Isn't it amazing the riots haven't started yet? [View all]Phlem
(6,323 posts)I made a total of $800 last year. I've made a little more at the beginning of this year but freelancing sucks for many reasons, the economy being a main contributor.
Fortunately my wife's business keeps us from ending out on the street but we've burned through a lot of savings we built up before our child and we're one major disaster from being there. The ACA's a gift but I don't think that's going to be of much use when you have hospital bills pile up and you have no job.
It's easy for some people to say it's gonna be fine, everything this administration's planned is going along swimmingly. Unemployment is down, yadda yadda yadda . On a webpage we can't see each other's perils. I noticed this a long, long time ago but no everything's just fine and yet the situation has gotten worse and more acute. It's really sad to hear the "everything's just fine" club continue that message.
Maybe, for some, but not for all and I'm thinking the latter more than prior. I saw grief and pain on people faces a long long, time ago, now I don't see the faces at all. They're gone.
Mostly I worry for my child and all the other children that's going to suffer through this I don't see things getting better soon.
Mr. President, it's always been about the jobs. We are all more than willing to work but I can't support a family on McDonalds pay.
Don't give up JaneyVee.
-p