Posted on 10/10/2011 2:55:26 PM PDT by The_Obama_Gerbil
Every working American has lost a fortune since King O'Bozo took office and put an end to small business! Tell us your story. What do you do for a living,and if you lost your job and/or still working for less hours/wages, how much would you say you have lost in the last three years? I would imagine some of you may have lost upwards to a million.
The gutting of NASA killed the contract $ for what I was working on, so I just retired a bit early. Now sucking off of SS. Could have kept working for a few more years, saving yet more in the 401k, but I got nervous about what the liberals might have in mind, so I bailed out while I could.
Not complaining, many are in far worse situations..I have no mortgage or car payment or kids to put through school..
Been out of my 72k per yr w benefits job almost 2 years now...can’t even get a 30k job at this point...not fun
Ya, I’m off by right at 100k during the last 3 years.
and it was a small company in business over 25 years...
There’s been no COLA in two years because there was no inflation. One is “expected” for 2012.
Hmmm. Not including my home, a hundred thousand is a little over the top.
Zero has only cost me about forty thousand, if you count that we couldn’t find a cheap used car like we usually would have gotten for our latest vehicle. (We went to the used car lot of the new car dealer we’ve always bought from before, and he had -what - seven cars in our range? Thanks, Cash for Clunkers.)
Of course, including my house...
Worth asking since the thread-starting poster has been here less than a month.
My household is in the oil field, law and Austin real estate.
Law is always good, real estate is slightly up, but price of oil has fallen over the last couple months.
That’s a bit scary.
I live in Naples,Fla. where most of us here rely on the 7 winter months to make about 80% of our income. I remember when there was a time here where I was working year round. I will admit, I am scared, I am in hospitality, I love the work,but wish it was more year round.
Haven’t lost any income, but I drive a lot for my job, so have spent a lot more for gasoline. Investments and home values way down. Health insurance cost is up, up, up.
Also worth asking because currently the leftie loonies are looking for “millionaires” to harass.
Occupy Wall Street thugs plan "Millionaires March" to the homes of the 1%
As the OP said, tell "us" your story.
As Herman Cain said “ if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself.”
I really don’t care to share but I’ve gotta say -— the mental image of your “handle” makes me throw up in my mouth a little. Yucch!
Lost my job, but haven’t taken too much of a hit on the stock market. Husband had to go back to work, but he lost a bit in his portfolio.
when I mentioned my family of 7, I was referring to mom/dad and the other siblings. One brother lost at least 3 million in sales (he sells custom crafted/high end furniture in New Jersey)but since Zero took office,his business dropped about 95%!) we all knew this was gonna happen when Obama won,He has robbed most Americans of four years of their lives, look at it like Obama flushing four of your years down the toilet.
I moved to Texas in 2007. My income is up just over 50% since then.
You’ll not find me badmouthing the business climate in Texas.
It would be even better for everyone if we could drill here and drill now!
I WISH it were just 100k.
LLS
My income losses actually began at the point when the Democrats took control of Congress during Bush’s last term. My business was rocked so hard, that my family wound up living on the poverty line for the next few years.
It’s only recently that my wife and I have managed to claw our way back to something resembling a steady income. No thanks to Zero, I might add. We probably would have done it in less than half the time, had he not been elected.
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