Posted on 02/02/2014 7:48:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Au contraire...I feel blessed! Blessed to have been born in the USA at a time (1950) when the “Greatest Generation” had won WW2 and was about to launch an American Economic tsunami that would sweep vast numbers of people into secure comfortable middle class lives.
I was privileged to evolve in a rare time and place in human history, when the average person had an opportunity for self determination and a comfortable existence free of the fear and terror that plagued most human beings over millenia.
So as I continue on my journey, I am thankful to God and the diligent hard working Americans who came before me, who built our nation, secured our freedoms and generously handed me a rich OPPORTUNITY.
I am happy to be alive and kicking...pay check to paycheck...in the GREATEST Nation ever devised by Man/Woman.
Seems like more and more people are joining that club everyday, and more and more are beginning to wish they could still get by “paycheck to paycheck.” Obamacare is going a long ways towards taking away that little extra people manage to save.
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I always told everyone.....as long as the bills are paid and there is food in the cupboard I am happy. Doesn’t matter if I only have $10 left after that.
People who spend every cent they get can their hands as quickly as they can get their hands on it have no "liquid assets."
Same goes for people who max out credit cards.
The politicians in office now are indeed inept enough to not only import a slave class to pay for our retirement, but to also not ask us what we think about it. If they are doing this, it would be a very stupid idea. to begin with, it assures a permanent blue country which guarantees economic failure all around. The Republican Party will be gone
But amnesty and open borders has, in my opinion, much more to do with a selfish, short sighted, power and money greedy motivation
If asked whether I’d rather work and put money away for retirement or accommodate a lot of pushy people who not only will not appreciate and respect our culture and language not to mention our borders, but who bully me into speaking their language, all aided and abetted by commerce. I’ll take self reliance.
Press one for English, favoritism in scholarship funding, cheap labor, that comes from politicians planning our retirement?
I don’t know
I did that much of my working life. Most of my paychecks went into maintaining my home, then into investment properties. I didn't consider that as wasting my money, instead I saw it as a way of saving. It did work, as I was able to cash in at the peak of the real estate bubble in 2005 and retire early (although I now have rental properties again, but no mortgages this time around).
Heck, I used to live day to day ‘till I retired.
Remember when you could write-off the interest you paid on credit cards and car loans?
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Yes I do. It added up to quite a bit since interest rates were pretty high back then.
Our family would be considered by many to be wealthy. But, during college and for a decade afterwards, we lived paycheck to paycheck.
Raman noodles were par for the course.
Associates of mine were buying BMW’s and Mercedes, we were driving used cars.
They had mansions with only 3-4 rooms furnished. We lived modestly.
Now, they are hurting financially.
Our years of living frugally paid off.
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