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Saturday, April 4, 2020

The sad experience of too many Americans

"Frankly to the bottom line of a guy like me and other people who are also in my position, all this means absolutely nothing!! You see for almost 30 years I was stuck in dead end jobs as a "temporary employee" working at one place to be laid off three months later, then out of work for two years while I looked for and waited to find another job to "come along and hire me" only to work there for three years and get laid off and then repeat the whole cycle!! Many, many, many of us ran into this in the late 1980s throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s!! Which means we DO NOT have 401k retirements, we DO NOT have savings accounts (because the lay offs wipe those out) and our "cash is and has never been "liquid" ever in our lives!!! And I am NOT the only person who has suffered through this!! I know personally at least 10 others I have worked with that found the same life in my area alone! Folks like myself DO NOT buy homes or cars, we don't have credit cards or debts we can't manage and a lot of us don't even have a real "bank account" to make a difference in our lives! So financially we have fallen threw the cracks and our assets are in "know how" and the skills we have amassed over the years and nothing else!! Sadly it means a lot of us only know living paycheck to paycheck, and when manufacturing jobs all left, we became "Odd Job Workers" which are the guys mowing your lawn or working on your car out of his driveway on the weekend. We don't have business loans because NO BANKS will touch us and many of us seldom file taxes because how do you claim taxes when your monthly income is $80 a month or less most of the time, then you only work 3 to 5 months out of a given year! It isn't an easy life, and you are constantly hustling to earn your next meal or buy a new pair of shoes!! And now that you are in Quarantine you can't even support yourself! Banks don't care that you are flat broke because the fed WILL bail them out, and as far as the workers go like myself (who used to be consider middle class) all we know is hard work and "can do" to make a quick buck when it arrives....but now that is gone like I said!!! Hell the market could crash tomorrow and I wouldn't lose a thing because I don't have anything left to lose!! And my tools are paid for as well as my truck so to anybody else they are not worth a cent there either!! And the banks have done this to themselves, they jack up prices on car and home loans, to the point where only the rich can afford them, NOW they wonder why nobody is buying either of those items now that the interest rates are insanely low, but too many people like me got burned by those same banks!!!"

Up to 16 TRILLION DOLLARS for corporate welfare and the people are getting, literally crumbs.

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