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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on March 03, 2014, 04:04:39 PM
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Aside from nadin's brawls with her fellow DUmmies, and the announcement of yet another dead DUmmy, the most enjoyable DUmp threads are the ones in which DUmmies describe their desperate financial straits.
DUmmy pain, whether it's physical, psychological, or financial, is hard to beat for entertainment value.
In this case, it's financial pain that they voted for en masse.
They're too stupid to realize that poverty is part and parcel of their political "philosophy".
We don't call 'em DUmmies for nothing.
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 01:36 PM
leftyladyfrommo (7,229 posts)
Another friend over 60 has lost her job.
I think that's all of us now.
She has worked for FEMA as a contract employee doing disaster relief. She hasn't been called out in months because FEMA has reorganized their offices. She has been trying to find another job for over 2 years and has not gotten one interview.
So now she is forced to take early SS so she can survive.
There just has to be a whole army of people over 50 who have now been forced out of their jobs. They are having to spend all of their retirement savings just to survive until their SS kicks in.
All those people can no longer buy anything. This has just got to be affecting the economy in ways that no one ever expected.
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10024597077
Response to leftyladyfrommo (Original post)
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 01:51 PM
Star Member LiberalEsto (19,525 posts)
I turn 62 later this week and applied for Social Security in January after being out of work for five and a half years. Luckily my husband still has a job, knock on wood.
I hope he's laid off soon.
Response to Demo_Chris (Reply #3)
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:27 PM
Star Member LiberalEsto (19,525 posts)
It's bad enough that we can't afford to wait and retire at 65 or 67 in order to collect full Social security benefits.
Now the chained CPI will lower our future earned benefits.
Response to leftyladyfrommo (Original post)
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:35 PM
Star Member loudsue (13,528 posts)
4. I'm 64, and I'm back in school hoping that some more training,
besides 37 years in the professional work force, and 20 years as a small business owner, would make it easier to find work. I don't know what we're going to do if I can't find work!
Starve, DUmmy!! This is great! Keep those sob stories coming!
Response to leftyladyfrommo (Original post)
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:42 PM
Star Member Warpy (74,593 posts)
5. You just summed it up in a nutshell
about people who worked and saved and did everything they were supposed to getting the big shaft when they're over 50, losing everything even if they find McJobs here and there because unemployment runs out too soon and social security kicks in too late.
About the only older Boomer I know with job security has her own business, started on a shoestring when she was 20 and which kept her in poverty until her early 30s.
Everybody else is struggling on full time jobs which suddenly become part time, on jobs that magically disappear until they're out the door and some cute, perky 20 something gets hired, and on unemployment insurance they paid into all their lives that evaporates when they need it most.
What a country.
From a DUmmy who'd have a nice retirement if she had refrained from stealing drugs from the hospital.
Response to leftyladyfrommo (Original post)
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:01 PM
Star Member 2pooped2pop (2,754 posts)
7. retirement savings?
The poor has none and the middle class has lost any they might of had.
Hey but I hear the rich are doing really well.
Wrong, DUmmy.
Millions of decent and civilized people are still basking in the afterglow of the Reagan Boom and the Great Bush Prosperity.
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I don't think there is much that warms the cockles of my heart more than seeing a primitive complain about their suffering.
Here, have a side of delusional laser-like focus with your freudenschade:
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:01 PM Demo_Chris (5,450 posts)
3. As soon as Obama gets his TPP deal and chained CPI he'll start working on stuff like jobs.
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Sorry, Communist idiots. You wanted it, you got it. Enjoy the logical consequences of Socialist stupidity and:
:ownit:
:bouncingidiot: :bouncingidiot: :bouncingidiot:
How do you like me now? Still think I'm better than the evil Reagan?
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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:01 PM Demo_Chris (5,450 posts)
3. As soon as Obama gets his TPP deal and chained CPI he'll start working on stuff like jobs.
You mean like the 30+(Republican) jobs bills that never made it past, or even to, the Senate committee process? Now, if you're so interested in useless jobs bills, and they are, why no anger there, hmmmmm?
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Redistribute the wealth....remember that DUmmies....how about income inequality? Well when everyone one is flat broke and dependent on the government for everything required for a life, Obama will be very happy and claim a job well done.
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He'll start working on that, you know, like soon. :lmao:
Stupid, gullible DUmbshits.
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Redistribute the wealth....remember that DUmmies....how about income inequality? Well when everyone one is flat broke and dependent on the government for everything required for a life, Obama will be very happy and claim a job well done.
To summarize your sentiment, "Republicans are the party of the Rich, they want everyone to be Rich. Democratics are the party of the Poor, they want everyone to be Poor!!" :rimshot:
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Response to leftyladyfrommo (Original post)Mon Mar 3, 2014, 03:01 PM
Star Member 2pooped2pop (2,754 posts)
7. retirement savings?
The poor has none and the middle class has lost any they might of had.
Hey but I hear the rich are doing really well.
You can say that again!
Valerie Jarrett’s Bulging Bank Account
Senior White House adviser and long-time Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett’s role in a number of controversial Chicago housing developments has garnered her investments worth millions of dollars while highlighting the administration’s extensive business ties to presidential donors.
http://nation.foxnews.com/valerie-jarrett/2012/08/21/valerie-jarrett-s-bulging-bank-account
(http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i475/Delmar59/Jarrett_zps513d23bd.jpg) (http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/Delmar59/media/Jarrett_zps513d23bd.jpg.html)
She feels your pain.
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She has worked for FEMA as a contract employee doing disaster relief. She hasn't been called out in months because FEMA has reorganized their offices.
If she isn't in a "blue state" that went for Obama, FEMA isn't used.
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Response to leftyladyfrommo (Original post)
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:35 PM
Star Member loudsue (13,528 posts)
4. I'm 64, and I'm back in school hoping that some more training,
besides 37 years in the professional work force, and 20 years as a small business owner, would make it easier to find work. I don't know what we're going to do if I can't find work!
Throwing money away on a pyramid scheme gamble does not make you a small business owner no matter what they tell you.
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How is this possible ?
The loser they voted for to fix everything, has made everything worse.
I keep thinking this is all a prelude to wish a dupe, but they can't all play that game, can they ?
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The number of unemployed persons (6.8 million) was about unchanged in December, and the unemploy-
ment rate held at 4.5 percent. Over the year, these measures declined from 7.3 million and 4.9 percent, respectively.
In December, unemployment rates for the major worker groups—adult men (4.0 percent), adult women
(3.9 percent), teenagers (15.2 percent), whites (4.0 percent), blacks (8.4 percent), and Hispanics (4.9 percent)—showed little or no change. The unemployment rate for Asians was 2.4 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_01052007.pdf
Last month Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency. ...but as long as there's a Dim in the White House and a Dim controlling the Senate, we won't worry about those current pesky little unemployment numbers and, Heaven forbid!!!! , will draw NO parallels between the two. :popcorn:
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Do the DUmmies not remember;
Obama Jokes at Jobs Council: 'Shovel-Ready Was Not as Shovel-Ready as We Expected'
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e309/uleryrns/Photoshop/Obama/dog-pooping-on-obama.jpg)
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/06/13/obama-jokes-jobs-council-shovel-ready-was-not-shovel-ready-we-expected
Where did all that money go DUmmies ?
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Do the DUmmies not remember;
Where did all that money go DUmmies ?
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I am pretty sure this is the shovel 0bama meant:
(http://img0.etsystatic.com/012/2/5234088/il_340x270.419921766_61md.jpg)
As it is useful for snorting cocaine and heroin, well-known passions of old dope smokers.
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Obama Jokes at Jobs Council: 'Shovel-Ready Was Not as Shovel-Ready as We Expected'
Don't forget, after he said that there was much guffawing. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!
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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill
Looks like an average intelligent half black guy couldn't make a bad system work either.
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Where did all that money go DUmmies ?
To all those failed and bankrupt green energy companies and into the pockets of his campaign fund raisers.
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I am pretty sure this is the shovel 0bama meant:
(http://img0.etsystatic.com/012/2/5234088/il_340x270.419921766_61md.jpg)
As it is useful for snorting cocaine and heroin, well-known passions of old dope smokers.
Obama was born with a silver Koch spoon up his nose. :rotf: Some say to get high he went on the down low but who knows?
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Funny that, my husband's company downsized recently, he's 62 and already has 2 interviews set up. One of the jobs pays $10 an hour more than his last job. It's depends on how hard you try and what kind of employee you've been. And we've been smart enough to have money put aside for emergencies such as this.
Cindie
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Funny that, my husband's company downsized recently, he's 62 and already has 2 interviews set up. One of the jobs pays $10 an hour more than his last job. It's depends on how hard you try and what kind of employee you've been. And we've been smart enough to have money put aside for emergencies such as this.
Cindie
DUmmies have money set aside for just such occasions too. It's just your (and my) money.