Joe,
My Daughter-in-law sent me this and since you had a blog in your site today I thought you would appreciate some of these letters that put these sit on your ass protesters to shame. Like you I worked my butt off and nothing was beneath me and I always found work, maybe not what I wanted but it's called survival.
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While I read these statements, I can relate.
My husband and I are not deep in debt. We have an "affordable" house payment and one vehicle payment (which will only be for 3 more months). Even that payment has been "affordable".
We CHOSE to get ourselves out of debt. We paid off ALL credit cards and chose to only buy only what we can pay CASH for. No more financing of anything unless it is a clear emergency.
We certainly don't even come close to making six figures a year between us, but you know what? We're making it just fine. We don't have to skimp on our food budget worrying about how to pay our bills. Because we CHOSE to no longer live beyond our means!
However, I don't feel that this is the bottom line to the protests. I feel the bottom line is the fact that the corporations and the rich get all the tax breaks while we all take it on our backs to pay. Not only are they getting those breaks, and have been getting them for a long time, they're constantly asking for even more breaks.
I don't have to ask for any handouts, thank God, but if something happened and I found myself in a situation where I NEEDED the handout or hand up, I would want to know it was there.
Bad things DO happen to GOOD people and I feel a lot of people have forgotten about those!
Nicely put, 11:29. I also learned the hard way to live within my means and it sometimes requires painful decisions in order to make it work. Our government needs to make some of the same kind of decisions.
The job market is reaaly tough out there right now,but this is not the doing of Wall St. or major corporations.The free market is much more capable of putting people to work than government. As Dutch put it,government is not the solution, government is the problem.
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