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politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 11:52 AM Feb 2014

Compelling article on Huff Post article written by a used-to-have.

I guess Huff Post is doing a series of articles written by those who are chronically unemployed. Today's story is written by a free-lance writer named Kathleen Ann, a former corporatist, with a degree from a prestigest university. I haven't read any of the other articles but I was moved the most by the comments of those who are also used-to-haves.

"...I'm lucky to be in Massachusetts, where my health care is paid for, and fortunate to be of sound health and mind. But on days when I feel hopeless, I can envision myself 20 years from now, living in hardscrabble poverty. Female friends my age who are in similar financial circumstances are terrified of the future. If we can't get decent paying jobs today, there's little hope of getting a corporate job with benefits in the future. And during the past few years as we've struggled, we went through all of our savings, 401(k)s and anything left in the bottoms of our pocketbooks. So we can see ourselves as old, pathetic bent-over women, living in bus shelters, our ragged belongings in supermarket carts. ..."


I worry about my three children, all adults, college grads, and thankfully employed; at least for today. The fact that the GOP members of congress have sat on their collective behinds for the past 5 years, with their "let them eat cake mentality" and done nothing to help this economy create and grow jobs that will pay a living wage, should have us all storming the halls of congress.

With the lazy a$$, false equivalency reporting, lame stream media, continuing to perpetuate the myth that both sides are to blame, and that things might be better if President Obama just smoozed a little more with members of the opposite party, (the party who by the way was plotting their do-nothing-agenda on inauguration day 2009) defies logic. The fact that the GOP made it clear from day one that their goal was to make Barack Obama a one-term-president, evidently at even their own constituents expense, continues to defy logic that they haven't been run out of town long ago. And now the pious Sen Tom Coburn, says he wants to assemble a Constitutional Congress (once he's out of office) to downsize the role of government while he continues to draw a salary for the remainder of the calendar year, for being a member of the least productive congress in the history of the institution is appalling.

America had better wake up. What's left of the middle class had better wake up. Working people in the Red States had better wake up and see that the Koch Brothers and their ilk don't give a damn about whether you live or die, sink or swim. Working class people of America from Red States and Blue States had better come together, and turn back the advances of the Oligarchs before it's too late.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-ann/american-used-to-haves_b_4732434.html#closeOverlay
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Compelling article on Huff Post article written by a used-to-have. (Original Post) politicaljunkie41910 Feb 2014 OP
This is why I'm so surprised that many think the repubs will take back the Senate and keep the House monmouth3 Feb 2014 #1
we worry because dems have a tendacy to sit put elections leftyohiolib Feb 2014 #2
This is very true and it's up to us who are involved to keep harping (some see it that way) on monmouth3 Feb 2014 #3
one of the things we need to learn rafeh1 Feb 2014 #4

monmouth3

(3,871 posts)
1. This is why I'm so surprised that many think the repubs will take back the Senate and keep the House
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 12:03 PM
Feb 2014

Stories like this are becoming more and more mainstream. People are not always vocal but they do remember. I see a Dem takeover, I really do. This latest UI blockage by the Right is the icing on the cake..

 

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)
2. we worry because dems have a tendacy to sit put elections
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 01:14 PM
Feb 2014

ignorant of how our government works they think the presidential election is the only important election. that and the reptilicons steal, rig elections

monmouth3

(3,871 posts)
3. This is very true and it's up to us who are involved to keep harping (some see it that way) on
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 01:39 PM
Feb 2014

the importance of voting in all elections. I mention it in almost all conversations that turn political..

rafeh1

(385 posts)
4. one of the things we need to learn
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 06:45 PM
Feb 2014

one of the things we need to learn is to save when we are working. The lady was making $100/hr yet saved nothing spent it all on restaurants and vacations. I was jobless for 2 years but now i am working i seem to be spending a lot more all of which seems necceray now but in retrospect seems waste

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