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15. I can't comment on this

Fri May 16, 2014, 08:32 AM

May 2014

because I am just someone who needs to sit down and shut up.
I haven't worked since December 28, 2008. Before that, I had a 47 year stretch where I had NO PROBLEM getting a job.
I received the max weeks of unemployment, am holding out by living off my savings and the good graces of my boyfriend. My parents are gone now, so I'm using my " inheritance" as well, hoping to make it a couple more years so I can retire on SS, unless the republicants take that away.
I know there are others who are hopelessly poor from this; I am lucky to still have my house.
These should have been the years where everything I made got put into retirement savings.

I can't comment because my voice has gone silent in the press, and it makes the rest of the nation very uncomfortable. They don't even ask about me and my plight anywhere anymore.
There are millions of us out here.

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