I work for a major corporation as well. We just recieved our first raise in two years. It was for around 2%. I'm glad things have turned out well for your family.
Thanks for the comments folks. I'm going to have to be going now. See you on the next thread.
first for me this year, since 2001. alot of freepers don't understand what is really going on in a lot of sectors - private sector middle class jobs especially, anything touched by offshoring and globalism. I am attacked here regularly by them (as are you I see) as a troll. they see a 39% approval rating for the economy, they look at the macro numbers, and they say "the polls are wrong".
people don't live in the macro economy, they live in their own mirco economy. the economy is stratified - divided into individual sectors that each have their unique dynamics. that's why the numbers don't add up.