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.
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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.
