Hope it can become alright :(
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Me too.
We still have it better off than a lot of people, but our family has bought our house and expanded with the assumption that we'd always have the same income, but now we're going to have to make some significant cutbacks.
='( My family is having the same problem. My dad could barely support me even before this bull-shit, but now, even my mom is struggling. I've had to skip some meals thanks to the Bush administration. I'm fed up with it. That's part of the reason why I'll be moving to France soon. It may not be 'a free country' but atleast you can afford to live.
If things don't shape up (I'm really hoping the election will change things, but I suppose McCain might cheat and win), I'm moving back to Canada. Same quality of life and less than half of the bullshit.
Your father gets shot while working for a company, and then years later, after all of his loyalty to the company, he gets fired? That is one fucked up system for keeping workers during a lay-off. I hope everything can get better for you and your family. Maybe if you're lucky, working members of your family can find some decent jobs and manage to get by.
But on another matter, how can Bush possibly believe that the country isn't going into a recession? The value of the dollar is dropping pretty much daily and prices for gas and food are soaring. And then there's the gradually falling economy of the US. If those aren't considered to be factors for a recession, I don't know what are.
Lots of people I know are already suffering from the combination of rising prices and lowering salaries, along with any problems that their family might have with things like the war in Iraq. In fact, my own family is worried about being laid off almost every day, because of recent company mergings. To be honest, my family isn't doing badly right now, but at the rate things are going right now, I'm going to be joining the struggle to stay alive pretty soon.
If he really wants to help the country, why doesn't Bush try and make some more jobs for the tens of thousands of people who are losing them, instead of just adding his little checks that aren't really making all that much of a difference?
There is some hope.
Publix is encouraging all laid off workers to apply for a job with them! Oh, how generous---my dad gets to beg for a job with half the pay and half the dignity of his old one! Thank you, corporate America, for giving us the opportunity to beg to be your bitch.
Fucking shits.
And while all the older members of the family are going to be getting jobs, pretty soon gas will be so high that we'll be in the red from commuting alone. Pfft.
I know how it is, man. My dad was laid off earlier this year as well.
Granted, we got lucky and he got called back, but we suffered for quite a bit. I just hope it doesn't happen again, because we might not be so lucky next time.
I hope for the best for your family.
I have a terrible fear of ending up like the family on Good Times.
lol, now you know one of Slash's secret fears.
Also, needles.
Scary... I'm worried about my old man too...
ConnerBomb
I honestly don't know what to say... I'm really sorry for you. :(
Hopefully everything will turn out okay in the end.
SlashFirestorm
Thanks. It's going to be hard---there ain't many jobs left around Pensacola, and my dad and the older kids (including myself) aren't going to have an easy time finding some, but hopefully we'll manage.