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‘I’m selling my blood’: millions in US can’t make ends meet with two jobs
The Guardian ^ | 11/5/22

Posted on 11/05/2022 9:39:43 AM PDT by EBH

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To: EBH

If you have a garden it will be stolen/raided.


21 posted on 11/05/2022 10:09:48 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EBH

The cliff-notes version I listened to last night left me less than hopeful for the immediate future. AND it was incredibly interesting listening to all the tactics Weimar Germany tried from WWI until the crash to stabilize things. Even switching to a gold type standard failed. At some point it all fails because the economic damage is too great.


A few thoughts:

1) One of our best investment right now may be people. Money in the bank will not do us good. But investing in people is very risky, but still worth it.

2) The coming tough times is the cure. Now is the time to prepare for rebuilding. How do we do that? What does history teach us?


22 posted on 11/05/2022 10:10:23 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Rennes Templar

But, But, ... Joy Reid said Americans wouldn’t know there was inflation if Republicans didn’t keep mentioning it.

Reid is a friggin’ idiot!!


23 posted on 11/05/2022 10:13:20 AM PDT by Kaiser8408a (u)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Lolz

I worked 70-80 hour weeks for years to get to a point where I can comfortably support my family on my income so my wife can be “mom” full time

There was a point in time where my dad worked 16-20 hours a day 7 days a week between two jobs and ranch work that was needed

You do what you have to if you want to have anything and properly take care of your family


24 posted on 11/05/2022 10:18:42 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: EBH

Yet most of these useful idiots voted against President Trump.


25 posted on 11/05/2022 10:21:03 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: EBH

81 million alleged votes later.....


26 posted on 11/05/2022 10:23:07 AM PDT by cranked
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She works days as a barista at Starbucks, but claims it’s been difficult to get enough hours even with taking extra shifts whenever she can due to scheduling cuts as part of the crackdown on union organizing by management.

Cry me a river. What the hell do “scheduling cuts” have to do with union organizing, anyway?

27 posted on 11/05/2022 10:25:00 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: EBH

Recent interview with undertaker.
Every body with the creepy clots was “vaccinated”, except one.
That one, though not “vaccinated”, did have major surgery which required additional whole blood during the operation.

Draw your conclusions.

...that is all


28 posted on 11/05/2022 10:29:20 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but the provocations of a fool are heavier than both" PRO 27:3)
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To: Manuel OKelley

I remember my dad working at his survey business all day, coming home for dinner and then going to night school to become a professional engineer. He started working for himself at 27 and never really retired, he loved his work too much. At 92 and months from his end he would still talk about pieces of land and what could be done with them as I drove him around town.


29 posted on 11/05/2022 10:30:17 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: Chunga85

I brought this spiky contaminated blood up at the very beginning. If you know you need blood bank your own b4 being cut open.

Or get a smart family member to donate thiers to you if it was unexpected.

Does anyone remember the clinton arkasas canada aids scandal?


30 posted on 11/05/2022 10:30:49 AM PDT by algore
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To: Alberta's Child

These are the same people who work at low-paying jobs all their lives and then complain that Social Security isn’t enough when they are too old to work. Low-paying jobs are stepping-stones, not careers.


31 posted on 11/05/2022 10:32:58 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: EBH

Purebloods can earn 2k and more each month with small donations


32 posted on 11/05/2022 10:42:57 AM PDT by Craftmore
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33 posted on 11/05/2022 10:49:43 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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bflr


34 posted on 11/05/2022 10:50:51 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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Thanks for those links. I'm going to read/watch them a little later.

I have a feeling you might like the book "The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy" by Christopher Leonard, which I got recently. This podcast describes the book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5CaW3O_Ms4

35 posted on 11/05/2022 10:54:45 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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To: EBH

Who they trying to fool? This blood goes directly to Putin to keep him alive.
My sources confirm this. Don’t question me! 🇷🇺 🐸


36 posted on 11/05/2022 10:54:53 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: EBH

King Charles might be interested in a few pints . . . top dollar.


37 posted on 11/05/2022 11:10:12 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: SeafoodGumbo

Next book on my reading list is

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-56, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is a masterwork based on the real life testimony of the survivors.

I will add yours to my reading list. Thanks


38 posted on 11/05/2022 11:14:00 AM PDT by EBH ( 1776-2021 Break the Yoke of Woke)
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I’m a low-end landlord. BTW, that’s just short of a thousand per month. You can go lower, if there’s anything available, but you’d be in constant danger from your neighbors. Here’s my observation on why Americans can’t make ends meet. They own boats, just a low, low payment of $200 per month. Most of my renters have newer cars and they’re likely upside down in them. I’m relatively certain only one of my renters actually owns his cars outright. My houses, which are anywhere from 1,100 square feet to 1,500 are stuffed full of “stuff.” WAY more “stuff” than I own. All of that stuff cost money, some of which like huge TV’s are on credit cards. I’m astonished at what, and how much, stuff they buy. As for food, it’s rare that any of them make something. Mostly, it’s pre-prepared food. I have a hard time feeling sorry for people who find it impossible not to buy things they don’t need. I’ve seen cable bills of several hundred dollars per month. BTW, they’ll skip paying rent but keep up the cable payments.

When the stuff they buy is drugs and/or alcohol, as soon as they miss a payment or lie to me, I start the eviction process. There’s no saving them once they are doing enough drugs that I can tell they’re high while talking on the phone. You’d be shocked at how frequently this happens...married couple with children, elderly women, single mothers...no one is exempt from drugs.


39 posted on 11/05/2022 11:15:19 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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Only the very poor cannot make ends meet - any other are unwilling to live within their means and make adjustments and personal sacrifices.. One woman at a help cnter showd up asking for rent money - when asked how she got behind so far she said her kids deserved a good Christmas.
40 posted on 11/05/2022 11:15:55 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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