[proxy_user]

Er, what about saving?

I have never made a big salary, but if I lost my job I would have enough money to live.

[detective]

“jobs in this country have been vanishing at an alarming rate - more than 11,000 a day.”

Most of these jobs were lost since September 2008. The jobs that have been lost are all in the productive sector of the economy. The government jobs are continuing to grow. Our economy is slowly being destroyed and people don't realize it. They think that this is just some kind of slowdown in the business cycle. America is being turned into a third world dictatorship.

[detective]

“jobs in this country have been vanishing at an alarming rate - more than 11,000 a day.”

Most of these jobs were lost since September 2008. The jobs that have been lost are all in the productive sector of the economy. The government jobs are continuing to grow. Our economy is slowly being destroyed and people don't realize it. They think that this is just some kind of slowdown in the business cycle. America is being turned into a third world dictatorship.

[goodnesswins]

His House Payment is/was $3100 a month????

[GovernmentShrinker]

he was laid off in November. He had a six-figure income. . . . He's already six months behind on his $3,100 mortgage, and one of his two cars has been repossessed.

Umm, let's do the math here. He was laid off less than 6 months ago, but he's now 6 months behind on his mortgage. So obviously, he was in way over his head BEFORE he got laid off.

There are a lot of places where a $3100 monthly payment, even on a house that you put 20% down on, won't get you much. But this family clearly suffers from financial irresponsibility that goes back a lot further than the layoff date. And frankly, they have no business having 4 children, if they're unable or unwilling to support them while living within their means. Now they're sending the bill to those of us who do live and reproduce within our means.

[budwiesest]

Another crisis and another opportunity to 'grow' government. I wonder if these 'cycles' in the economy aren't planned to cause wreckage that leads to greater public involvement in the 'solution'.

If this recession has done anything it has proven that government will not and cannot adjust to shrinking revenues which might lessen the burden on the populace. The burden stays in place and in some cases may increase but it's your problem to deal with, not theirs.

Fund our bloated asses even though we may have created the incentives that led to the problem in the first place. What a rip-off.

[kcvl]

I guess he should have saved something from that six figure salary. I don’t feel sorry for him for spending every dime he made!

“He’s already six months behind on his $3,100 mortgage, and one of his two cars has been repossessed.”

Andrew Balzer, account manager for Sharf, Woodward & Associates, an information technology (IT) recruiting firm in Sherman Oaks, California.

[CORedneck]

Back in 1995/1996 when I moved to Colorado, I made up my mind that I was going to become debt free. I reached that goal in 2002 including the house. Some people I know buy a new car every year or two. Personally, the last new car I had was in 2006 and previous was in 1999. I also have an old pickup truck as well that I had since 2000. I usually drive it to work to this day.

When I was unemployed for a year, I was able to weather unemployment a lot better than most other people. Plus teaching a few college classes to pay living expenses, I was able to get by a lot better. Didn't have to worry about losing the house or cars, they are paid for ! But I don't live like the Jones either.

When I worked for my previous company plus with the management being former IBM, I have been talked to a few times that I need to "upgrade" my vehicle to something "more respectable" such as a 4 door luxury car. In fact one manager I had (not the jerk but a different one) told about her own story when she started with IBM fresh out of grad school. When she started, she had a sports car - something like a Honda Prelude. In her first week at IBM she had to drive from Colorado Springs to Boulder with some of the managers. The next week, she traded it in for a 4 door type - she got talked to that if she wanted to advance in the company, some things had to change. She was kind of aiming at my pickup truck but I refused to budge.

Sometimes the corporate world expects you to live like the Jones and it keeps people vulnerable and broke. The company I work for now - they deal with databases, the director drives a Ford Escort, one of my cohorts drives an old 2001 Honda, another one has a Toyota 4-Runner. My manager has a new Toyota. There are older vehicles in the parking lot at work but the previous place, most people had newer cars. Both places I made the same amount of money.

[Shethink13]

Since the recession began at the end of 2007, jobs in this country have been vanishing at an alarming rate - more than 11,000 a day.

Why do we blithely accept the premise that the recession began at the end of 2007? That's a pure lib fabrication in order to place the blame on Bush.

[wac3rd]

I feel for the guy, but as usual, this is CBS/Democratic Party (Communism) being the slender, cute, flirty woman in the office who knows you’re married but bends over a little much, show a little too much cleavage, wears a lot of perfume and always touches your arm when she speaks to you...

The lure is Government being your feeder, employer, doctor, protector and God... nothing short of that will make Obama or Soros rest, nothing.

The Cold War never ended, people on the American Left were always cheering for the Russians.

[Cindy]

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