When Charlie Rangel became the chairman of the ways and means committee, we worked hard to get out of debt. When Obama, the redistributionist, was elected, we reduced our ‘tax footprint’.
Instead of being set to withstand the storm. We’re in a leaking boat thanks to Obamacare. The money I could be using to save for retirement now goes to my insurance premiums. It went up 400%. If I had car payments and a mortgage, I wouldn’t be able to afford the cost. I grow a lot of our own food, too. I just don’t know how people are going to afford to eat. I guess Michelle could take credit for a backdoor cure to Obesity.
I am afraid because I don’t have that many more years to work. I am not in a position to recover the savings I have had to access, JUST to get by. That ‘savings’ took me a very long time to accumulate and I did without a lot just to build it. It was NOT meant to be used for buying gas for the car, paying the electric bill, etc.
I don’t know if I will be able to return to anything like the solid circumstances I had achieved previously and I am certain that taxes and everything else will CERTAINLY increase.
I was never wealthy, but I never had to concern myself with the possibility of doing without means altogether.