Economic Collapse Permanently Destroys Middle Class Jobs

Linda Brady Traynham 3 months ago on Wordpress

Bill:

I qualify for the description of “middle class” because I am still managing to keep from slipping into the under class, although if Mr. Obama has his way a great many of us won’t, particularly widows on Social Security.

We DO love our hundred-year-old house over in the hill country, where Charles lived before we joined our lives, but we can’t ranch on 20 acres and we cannot become as self-sufficient as possible without raising animals and crops. It is not safe to live there in the current economic situation and we rely on ourselves, not the government, for what we need.

Paradise is in our MINDS. We love each other, the animals, what we are building exclusively by our own efforts, not living in the city, and even the shabby old house I inherited which we are enlarging all by ourselves. We’re working to protect ourselves and those we love from the coming Greater Depression. We do without things that most Americans think indispensible. Not having cable TV will buy three cows a year, and we can eat them if Detroit comes to our area. Foregoing dinner and the movies twice buys a good French Alpine Dairy goat. We do splendidly with one cell ‘phone and a magic box that gets us Internet anywhere cell ‘phones work. We don’t eat fast food or drink Cokes all day long. In short, we make choices. We defer gratification. We EARNED what we have over long lifetimes of following the rules. We do not apologize for having two residences. We defrauded no one to get them. The “homeless” have no claim on the fruits of our labor and sacrifices, and I explain this only because most of the electorate has forgotten what being responsible for their own lives and choices means.

The real question is why you supposed instantly that we live on the Ponderosa and have a mansion on a hill, as well. Not that it would matter so long as we hadn’t gotten them through unethical or illegal behavior. Happiness is where you find it and security is the result of character and choices. The politics of envy are always great vote getters, but they do not lead to safety, security, or happiness for anyone other than politicians.

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Linda Brady Traynham 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

Bill:

Let’s start with the easy charge, that I “deigned” to comment on Mr. Calderwood’s article . It really wasn’t difficult. I thought he wrote an excellent piece, and, having nice manners, myself, I said so.

Do you advocate litmus tests before one may comment here? If so, what are you standards and what qualifies YOU to insult ME? (I would prefer to underline or italicize those words, but those options are not available.)

What qualifies ME to express an opinion is that I am a professional editor AND I am a frequent guest writer on this site. From the second qualification you may infer, correctly, that I am acquainted thoroughly with the issues involved; the first should indicate to the meanest intelligence that others pay me for my opinion and to fix what is wrong. My clients include Fortune 500 companies. In my professional opinion, Mr. Calderwood’s article was well-written, well-organized, factual, useful, and interesting.

Speaking in my capacity is a Counselor, I suggest you try saying something nice. It might change your whole attitude, which could use it.

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Wellington 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

Beware of the will to conserve wealth and power from those who now have it. The elite’s and their puppet government will not hesitate to turn the MILITARY against the people. Ready to Civil War mk2 anyone?

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rancherlady 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

Ernie…my commiseration, and tell it like it is. The time is long past for us to sit quietly while we are robbed and insulted by the Statists.

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robert heartland 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

I watch my 50 year old brother just sit around all day. He asked me in 2002,”When is the crash coming,Bob? ” “I don’t see it!” He was unemployed just after the Tech WRECK when he asked me this. A friend said to me,” My brother is like a man drowning in the sea wondering when the flood is coming.” I’m with a political group loosely affiliated Lyndon LaRouche since 1993. I always passionately wanted to know the truth about what was going on in the world and why. Knowing what may come,sometimes I wish I could forget. I have a hard time getting to sleep at night. ... See all content Hide content

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Ernie 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

This pretty much nails it, but I can speak from experience and fill in some of the details. I came from a blue collar lower middle class family. I was the first of my extended family to make it through a 4 year college degree and it took me 8 years with lots of low credit semesters and time away- both to accomodate paying work. Then just as I was making it through, I got stuck with the bill for a welfare case’s bastard. I don’t know and don’t care if anybody doesn’t like the way I said that- my rights were violated- I never got my day in court much less a jury trial. The government wrecked my credit rating, stole my income, and tracked me like the modern day runaway slave that I was.

I count that now as a blessing- because I know government for what it is- I hate cops and bureaucrats. I question everything. I lived for 18 years scraping by with nothing, and learned to make do, hide wealth, avoid taxable income. I got mad and I got mean. I am the future- and the meddlers had better beware the wrath of whole armies of the dispossessed like me.

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