Ever since the collapse in Fall ‘08, the future has become foggy, if not dark.
It’s been 4 years of this. I’m tired, I’m tired of pessimism, I’m tired of doom and gloom. I’m saddened for my kids whose future looks bleak as leaders have failed them miserably. There is no leadership, no quest or appetite to make the tough decisions to solve these problems that are/have become insurmountable. I’ve never been a hide in your basement and stock canned goods, doom and gloom, kind of guy...but I’m getting there.
First, I will LOSE my health insurance. I have affordable catastrophic, which will be outlawed. And taxes within Obamacare affect certain stocks I own, which are declining in value now.
Second, I will not pay the penalty ascribed by the mandate, so I will become a "criminal" for my civil disobedience. They probably won't but they COULD come after me, my bank account, my house, etc.
Third. My house is for sale. I was anticipating a Romney housing rally that would enable the sale and allow me to buy a new place I have had my eye on. That is gone. The housing market will sour again.
Fourth, having lost my job (and group health) under Obama, I now work two part-time jobs. Are they secure? Not really, not now. And with no other jobs out there, the loss of one would mean I could not pay my mortgage. Hello bank. Goodbye equity.
Fifth, I have stocks . . . conservative ones mostly, but in a general market collapse, that would not matter. And I was really excited about Romney's proposal for the middle class to ELIMINATE taxes on dividends and capital gains. As I approach retirement (10 years), that was looking like a tremendous boon to me. Oh well.
Sixth, I commute, and my job necessitates a lot of driving. Gas prices will climb. I live in the deep South . . . the thought of my electric bill next summer (air conditioning) is frightening. (Seventh) I am too dispirited to do anything about it. I am tired of being tired (Romney's phrase), and now I just live under a giant, oppressive cloud. No, the sun will not come out tomorrow.