I'm thinking they deserve to be suicidally despondant...
coalition_unwilling (12,278 posts)
I AM worse off than I was four years ago. I have
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been unemployed now for almost two years.
The Unemployment Insurance extension was cut off abruptly in early May when California no longer qualified for Fed-Ed extension.
Have run through all my liquid savings and am now liquidating my IRAs to make mortgage and payments.
So do me a favor and stop trumpeting how much better off YOU are now.
Geesh.
coalition_unwilling (12,278 posts)
2. The unemployment rate in Calfiornia is 10.7% as of July. And this
jerk Sparkly has the gall to start this thread about how she's better off.
I swear to God.
Edited to correct gender.
Oops!
But no worries; Stinky is a good liberal male.
He won't stick-up for his wife because that would imply a sense of patriarchal ownership.
Sparkly (21,797 posts)
16. "This jerk Sparkly"
... is a "she," first of all.
I was responding to the common claim that NObody is better off now than 4 years ago. Some things ARE better for some people as a result of President Obama's policies.
As I said, my daughter has healthcare because of the reforms he passed, and the auto industry is still alive.
Very sorry if refuting the notion that NObody is better off is pissing in your Cheerios.
onoes it's the dreaded RW "I got mine, you get yours" meme!
AtomicKitten (38,906 posts)
43. I'm very glad your daughter was able to get healthcare coverage.
As the mother of 2, I know just how much that means.
I'm also sorry you are being called out over your post expressing gratitude for that coverage. That kind of mean-spirited dick move used to be against DU rules.
They act as if Barky was lifted out the depths of poverty from the Blackhole of Calcutta.
coalition_unwilling (12,278 posts)
24. I'm not angry or frustrated enough not to recognize that when the choice is
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between a center-rightist (Obama) and an out-and-out fascist (Romney), that the working class will fare better under the center-rightist.
I cast my ballot not on my own behalf but on behalf of the working class. Always have, always will. But I was promised 'change' in 2008 and the only change I've seen has been for the way worse.
Obama, center-right?
sadbear (2,200 posts)
6. And Mitt Romney blames President Obama for that.
Do you?
Everything is a political loyalty test with these people.
coalition_unwilling (12,278 posts)
28. You know, I'm almost 100% sure that were it not for Occupy, the center-rightist Obama would still
be prattling on about the need for 'austerity' and making compromises with the fascists.
Fortunately, Occupy stiffened Obama's spine.
Obviously we need a ov't jobs program for the terminally psychotic.
liberal_at_heart (1,276 posts)
10. I know that feeling
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I had all but two medical bills paid off last month and then four more came piling on. I don't think I've ever been fully paid up on medical bills, and haven't had decent credit in decades because of it.
Liberals insisted we pass a law keeping healthcare debt off of credit reports and yet they still lie about it.
Unless he's saying he spent everything at a MMJ dispensary.
madrchsod (53,748 posts)
11. i know exactly how you feel
i`m on social security which just makes our house payments. before i turned 65 i did`t work for almost 4 years. i drew a lot of unemployment then nothing for the last year before social security kicked in.
i know it`s tough to read stuff like that but i look at it as thank who ever that the economy is getting better and people are going back to work. we have a long way to go but with obama we are on the road to recovery.
IOW: life started to suck when you stopped being productive and started being wholly dependent on the gov't.
jillan (30,353 posts)
14. The reason some of us are saying that is because the repugs keep blaming Obama.
Especially since Obama's jobs bill is just sitting on Boner's desk and he refuses to put it up for a vote.
God forbid it would pass and that would be bad for the republicans. And that is more important to them than helping people like yourself.
It's not that we don't understand that things are seriously shitty right now for alot of people, please don't take it personally.
I wish things were better for you.... I really do.
In 2008, when the market plummeted, I got killed. I'm retired and my 401k & my home is all I have. And that happened under a Republican's leadership. It just pisses me off to no end that they are blaming Obama.
I can totally understand how that thread would upset you.
If 1 man can ruin your life you're a slave.
And deservedly so.
Skidmore (27,205 posts)
44. So after reading down this thread, I'm left to ask the question that always need to be asked...
where does Congress fit into this for you? The House holds the power of the purse and has spent the entire time cranking out bills to name post offices and teabagger red meat--not even sausage. And then there's the Senate where ole Mitch McConnell has been nesting for the entire time, sitting in one place trying to lay a golden egg. Every I run across one of these threads, I keep coming back to the machinations that have been going on behind the scene to undermine this President's administration.
FYI, during the past four years, we have lost some ground too. But I'll be damned if I'm going to lay the blame at one person's feet for the ignorance of an entire nation who seems hellbent on filling its legislature with 1%ers and then dragging out pitchforks when they game the system.
I'm sorry times are tough for you now. I sincerely hope things get better for you. I just wanted to point to a truth that always goes unsaid--one person alone is not responsible for all the ills in this nation or government.
Quit being a bunch of dependent, mewling pusstards!
And it goes on like that.
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