You have run out of severance and are now living on somewhere between $600 - $1400 a month in unemployment, which has been a battle with Republicans to keep extending because those collecting unemployment are "drug-addicts, hobos, lazy, good for nothing, unincentivized, parasites."
First to go was the second car, which is understandable it a convenience, but you're not going anywhere on a daily basis so you can share one car. Important to sell if you aren't upside/down in the car, or work with your lender if you are. Call them and you may be surprised how helpful they can be.
You're 59 years old... you do not have a college diploma, you have specialized for 40 years in being a good employee with a great work ethic, flexible multi-tasker, energetic team leader and new project coordinator. When you had that late Friday afternoon meeting, you were told you were making too much money for the position. They were restructuring and might even out-source your job.
When does depression turn to despair?
Or is it despair first and then depression...
The one thing you know for sure is that you were three years away from retirement and you are now a few months away from living under a bridge and looking for a really sturdy box!
Dear GOP and Democratic leaders,
Unemployed people are your constituents even though we can't afford to contribute to your re-election campaigns. We are not a blight on society like the lepers that were once quarantined in leper colonies. We are your brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, cousins, uncles, aunts, grandchildren, neighbors, friends, the worker who once stood on a production line or sat in the next cubicle from someone you know.
We are not a pawn in a game of GOP holding Democratic legislation hostage!
We are not a pawn in the balance the budget debate!
We are not the reason the economy was driven off the cliff!
We are the back-bone of America... we are the middle-class!
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Actions have consequences... inaction has consequences... the consent of the governed is required to serve... voting is the 'Right of the People to alter or to abolish".
I'm a frequent commenter on some news and political sites, and anybody who has seen my comments on this topic in the past year may have noticed that on many occasions I have suggested that only registered individual voters be allowed to contribute to campaigns and political organizations. Such an approach wouldn't solve all the problems, of course, and lobbyists and lawyers would immediately start looking for loopholes, but I think it would take some pretty fancy dancing to find a way to register Monsanto, GE, Halliburton, et. al. to vote.
Almost done w/ this excellent book - and I'm HOPPING mad. But, then I have been so about the insurance industry for years already! This just added fuel to the fire..
So, now I want to know why no one has sued health insurers for practicing medicine without a license? Oh, right, they have shills with MDs working for them making "medical decisions" in review cases.
As long as we in the US have an insurance industry AND health care provision industry that is profit driven we will never have equitable, affordable health care for all. (Notice, I did NOT say health insurance.)
I pray everyday that my husband doesn't get sick or have a serious accident right now. We can't afford the $400 plus to add him to my employer provided health insurance plan.
Yo-plait yogurt has been doing this for years, theres basically a fake bottom and its pretty substantial.
Deli sandwiches are the worst, I wont buy them anymore. They cut the sandwich in half then face the cut side towards the customer. But what they do is take the meat and pile it high facing you. When you get it home you find that the meat needs to be spread out to cover the whole sandwich and ends up looking nothing like the piled high version sold to you.
I recently had to buy a new printer and had to wade through the language tricks used to expound the wonders of ink cartridges. Do a day or two of research and don't compromise what you need, fancy is not better. Spend these two days calculating one thing: COST PER PAGE. Thats it, nothing else. My study ranged from .02c to .11c per copy.
...but people don't read. Or they don't understand simple fractions.
Yo-plait yogurt has been doing this for years, theres basically a fake bottom and its pretty substantial.
Deli sandwiches are the worst, I wont buy them anymore. They cut the sandwich in half then face the cut side towards the customer. But what they do is take the meat and pile it high facing you. When you get it home you find that the meat needs to be spread out to cover the whole sandwich and ends up looking nothing like the piled high version sold to you.
I recently had to buy a new printer and had to wade through the language tricks used to expound the wonders of ink cartridges. Do a day or two of research and don't compromise what you need, fancy is not better. Spend these two days calculating one thing: COST PER PAGE. Thats it, nothing else. My study ranged from .02c to .11c per copy.
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