I am 60....I am slowly going under...this is scary...

[one_voice]

[Poll_Blind]

1. "Slowly going under"...I think that describes a lot of situations with frightening clarity.

Thanks for the post.

PB

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. All that added stress is going to compound the problem, too.

What was the term Kissinger used? "the useless eaters"?

[valerief]

9. That's us. The useless eaters. nt

[UpInArms]

32. in the 80s, the BFEE called us "fodder units"

and now that we no longer can give up anything else to them, we are "useless eaters"

[whathehell]

47. Jeebus...I never heard that one.

Do you have a link?

[UpInArms]

52. sure do - hang on to your hat, it's gonna be a bumpy ride

http://greatchange.org/ov-martin,case_for_sedition.html

[condoleeza]

40. Wow, he actually said that?

Not that I'm surprised, having known since birth that I was pretty much a problem, but it still hurts a bit, even from that asshole. Still a part of the "system" paying into it. No wonder we see suicide so often nowadays.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Slowly going under" = 99%

"Rising Rapidly." - 1% (R)

[Firebrand Gary]

4. 60 Years old... WTF is wrong with us?

I will say a prayer for this lady.

[sarcasmo]

5. Give me the Canadian health care system any day, this for profit shit we have SUCKS!

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. Also, Canadians collect their SS at 60, if they so chose too, don't they?

Hey but we are the ENVY OF THE WORLD! That's what our Prez says. :silly:


I bet those Canadians sure envy us. :evilgrin:

[truedelphi]

41. Yeah, like when is the last time they rocked out by killing

A Khaddafi! And you can combine the military spending of like the next fifty countries, and it still doesn't meet our military spending.

Like we have to have priorities. And apparently being able to kill people and to have more military hardware must count for a lot, because it is the one thing that our nation always is superlative at accomplishing.

And it's not like those health programs mean all that much, unless you are sixty and need to use loans to buy your medicine. Or young and newly married with a baby whose health condition is "iffy." And your insurance would cover the baby's condition, if the treatment needed wasn't ruled "experimental.'

[area51]

23. +1

No one should lose access to health care because they lose their job. If our for-profit, tied-to-employment health care system is so enviable, why is no other country trying to emulate it?

[Enthusiast]

43. Most Americans now feel the same as you.

Too bad the insurance industry, the for-profit health care service providers and the pharmaceutical industry control the legislative process.

[G_j]

6. I hear ya! nt

[European Socialist]

7. I'm 58 and not as dire....

but going the same direction.

[barbtries]

8. way too many people in this boat.

it's tragic.

[xchrom]

10. recommend

[RockaFowler]

11. This makes me wanna cry

Yeah it's the teachers fault. Can we at least stop blaming teachers now??

[Enthusiast]

44. "Can we at least stop blaming teachers now??"

In Ohio we have to watch commercials blaming the teachers every day.

Vote NO on issue 2!

[sunwyn]

12. I understand completely. After four years of unemployment,

I will be moving out of my house that has just been sold by the bank out from under me, this is my last month of Internet, no phone, on food stamps but still must supplement with the food bank, lost my car and now will be moving in with my elderly mother and disabled veteran brother. What has happened to this country?

[reggie the dog]

15. grow weed, trust me

it gets you through the end of the month financially

[Webster Green]

18. Depends on where you live.

In CA, there's so much good pot it's hard to make a buck growing the stuff anymore. I just give it away these days. :hippie:

[sunwyn]

30. Damn....I miss CA. In Ohio now. Wish someone would give me some weed.

Right now I am just looking into growing as much of my own food as possible.

[SammyWinstonJack]

22. The Greedheads took it over, that's what's wrong and they hate us too.

:hug:

[reggie the dog]

26. just sell cheap then

say 1O grams of great stuff for 50 euros, and sell to 3 or 4 people every once in a while when you run out of legit money. stay real small time like that and you should have no problems with the law and have a bit of pocket money

[reggie the dog]

13. i am 32 and slowly going under

my kids christmas gifts this year are gonna be bought with money from selling the extra pot i grew, i have enough to last over a year so i am gonna sell an ounce or 2 to buy gifts and i dont give a fuck if people say i am a shit parent for getting the money that way, i have a master's degree and teach but my salary has not gone up as i keep getting "rehired" by the same district every year and thus keep starting level pay.....

[Lucky Luciano]

35. Dude, what is the upside to broadcasting your business so publicly?

What is the downside?

I think the downside dominates the upside.

[TBF]

14. I think many of us know her feeling - very powerful. K&R nt

[Bandit]

16. Republicans care about you......

You must have a few nickles left they can get their hands on..:shrug:

[leveymg]

17. Know that same feeling of being one miracle away from drowning.

All we want and need are stable jobs . . . is that too much to hope and ask for?

[coalition_unwilling]

19. Capitalism has failed. Time to try a different system, one that

organizes the economy around people's need and not the parasites' greed.

We must not succumb to despair. We must be steadfast in our resolve, we must not waver in our conviction, we must show compassion to our enemies, but we must provide justice for our brothers and sisters. We must be willing to shed our blood, to die even, for this our sacred duty.

[mwb970]

48. "Pure" capitalism will always fail in just this way.

That's why we regulate business (or we used to at least) and have socialistic, people-oriented elements like Social Security etc. It's called a mixed economy, and it's the only system that works.

[TwilightGardener]

21. She must have misplaced her bootstraps.

[ebayfool]

34. Pffft! She probably had to sell them like I did to make rent ...

along with the beater I drove when I could get work. Bootstraps don't bring in much.

[meow2u3]

37. That, or the BFEE stole the boots off her feet

while she was sleeping.

[Enthusiast]

45. Bootstraps make a tasty broth, they're leather you know.

[TwilightGardener]

24. BTW, Dave Ramsey spent his radio show yesterday inviting OWS supporters to call in

so he could whine to them about paying a 40% income tax rate and asking why they weren't mad at Kanye West and Lady Gaga for being rich and successful. I shit you not.

[badhair77]

25. Is he trying to prove he still belongs at Fox Business channel?

He was always telling people to get a "beater car" and deliver pizza in oder to make extra money for their family. He was too clueless to know there were NO jobs and people didn't have lots of extra cash to order pizza. Plus a "beater car" costs lots of money in repairs. Yeah, he's a great one for financial advice.

[TwilightGardener]

28. LOL--tell me about it, RE the beater. We drove our old truck into the ground, because

it was paid off (we'd bought it used), and at around 210,000 miles, the fuel pump quit while I was driving my kids to school. One second I was going forward at 35 mph, the next I was struggling to get it fully onto the shoulder. Nothing like a tow truck and $1200 at a pop (in addition to the new radiator and hoses we'd put in a couple months before) to help you save shitloads of money and become rich, LOL.

[Lars39]

33. grr....he's such an asshat.

[badhair77]

27. Good vibes going out to the hurting posters in this thread.

My husband went thru 2 xmases without a job then finally got one. Things are better for us now. Not fantastic but better. I feel for you all. Try to keep your thoughts up. I know that's hard to do. The economy still scares me.

[progressoid]

29. And Herman Cain says...

Oh forget it.

Fuck Herman Cain

[Enthusiast]

46. PLUS ONE!

[femrap]

31. K and R

so many of hard-working citizens who played by the rules are going under...Fuck the 1%.

[kestrel91316]

36. "Slowly going under" - sounds like an awful lot of folks I know.

"Mission accomplished (smirk)," say the 1%ers.

[myrna minx]

38. .

:hug:

[WillyT]

39. HUGE K & R !!!

:mad:

:kick:

[Enthusiast]

42. Kicked and recommended! nt

[LWolf]

49. k&r

[Faygo Kid]

50. Also 60. Our nation is collapsing.

The Republicans (including Fox News) are nothing more than shills for the Kochs. The Democrats are not much better, frankly (wait until you see what the "supercommittee" has in store).

We're personally hanging in there, but one of us lost her job at 58, and I'm just a "reorganization" away.

[madmax]

51. 62 same boat. So this is what

I worked my ass off and scrimped and saved for all my working years . Thanks
America