Waiting Hawk, no one really wants people to get hurt, but I have to say something here to give some context to this. Fort the past decade of so I have seen my efforts to work hard and get ahead by being forthright and smart continuously undermined with increasingly higher degrees of uncertainty about job stability…yet I continue to pay a high proportion of my income for taxes to support what exactly?? I got laid off twice in one year not too long ago. Nobody had sympathy for me…nobody? No safety net other than the one I had created for myself and it wasn’t enough. If I get laid off now, no one will have much sympathy either. I’m seeing the odds of that kind of uncertainty increasing as a direct result of cheap money policies and easy money seekers. Those easy money seekers are rampant here in SoCal and many of them will try to disguise themselves as “self-employed”..whatever. I saw it the first time I got the plane from Chicago. It was palpable here. Median income way too low and way too many Beemers and MBZs buzzing around on the freeways heading for way too many stucco spanish tiled roofs that cost north of $700K.
If you really want to get your blood boiling, go read the latest story on Calculated Risk about the gov pensioner couple who get to retire with 90% of pay. What would someone in the real have save in order to have something equivalent???
Something has to give soon. I’m fucking tired of paying so much in taxes for NOTHING!!!
