> Stateside, Obama has crippled our economy. Everybody I know is either out of work or under-employed.
Pre-Obama I was earning a good six figures every year. Not anymore and haven’t since about 2011. I think the SHTF during this last term for most people. Its really gotten bad the last two years. I’ve had to seriously rethink my career, his economic policies directly impacted my financial well-being without any doubt, lost all my savings, was on the ropes trying to keep my home but have decided to sell it rather than lose it and will have to downsize considerably, I’ve slashed as many of my bills as possible, and still can barely able to pay the ones I do have. Vacation? Hobbies? Forget about. There’s no extra funds for fun. We do occassionally eat out and have learned to drink water and share one meal and get two plates. It helps keep our weight in check too...: )
I’m not saying this for sympathy. Its just the way it is and I’m sure several on here are going through the same. People are just barely getting by because of the Muslim traitor in the WH and he needs to pay for what he’s done to us. He should’ve been impeached long ago. I’m not sitting around idly either. I am still working but not near the same hours I used to. I’ve applied for several federal investigator positions doing national security clearance background checks but they’re all full up. I’ve even looked into doing claims adjusting. I applied for 7 positions alone today so I’m mot sitting on my can. Its just that there are far more applicants than there are jobs. Hopefully I’ll hit the mark soon...: )
On the other hand, I’ve noticed the liberal wealthy getting considerably wealthier but I think that is about to change. I think September is really going to be a roller coaster ride even for the wealthy. I think people’s feelings of financial security are about to change soon, too.
I have come to the conclusion that the main action of the left
is to make it impossible to survive financially.
Each move they make is aimed at that.
The EPA, the endless new “regulations,” new laws, new fees.
All I hear from owners of shops I know (auto repair, welding, restaurant) is how they are fighting to stay afloat financially. They seem to be in a permanent bad mood, which they were not a few years ago.
The last time I walked into the big chain grocery store near me I saw at once that prices had been raised 5-7% on almost everything since I was last there.
Your post was a very significant post.
A longtime successful restaurant owner I know turned his once thriving large restaurant into a lavanderia — a laundromat. He explained to me how he did that after careful calculation. The neighborhood had turned strongly hispanic and the wives bring their husbands construction work clothes in like clockwork.
He was getting robbed regularly by his employees, so he came up with the idea of having customers slide money into a slot in a machine in the wall to buy plastic cards to use the washing machines and dryers.
In our state they are increasing the minimum wage. His comment: “You have a budget. If paying the employees becomes too much a burden on the budget, then I will have to have only two employees working at one time instead of the three at a time I have now. The floor will be a little dirtier, but that will have to be. If the minimum wage goes up more, I may have to have only one employee working at a time. Won’t be good, but I have to do what I have to do to survive.”
He talked about the oppression on the restaurant business over the last years, with many of them going under.
“People can eat at home,” he said. “Eating out is a luxury. People can cut that out if they have to to survive. Meanwhile, many restaurants will not survive.”
In car repair, the prices of the parts and tool goes up and up and up.
The car repair guy and the welding shop owner I know have been telling me for years that they are getting less and less work because people are coming in only when they absolutely HAVE to.
The welder said the big industrial machines (dump trucks, other larger industrial equipment) he usually repairs are not coming in like they used to because they (the owners-users of the machines) are getting less and less work themselves, so their machines are not wearing out and breaking as often.