survive anymore? With low wages and high priced housing, rental, car insurance, health insurance (if you are lucky enough to have that), raising kids. Why is it like this now? My father-in-law retired 20 years ago making $8.00 an hour and had a mortgage of $125.00. Now the pay is about the same but to rent for a 2 bedroom, for instance (in our area), it's about $1,200.00 a month. Yet, the older generation (way retired persons I mean) do not understand why we have a rough time. How did we get to this point?
2006-06-29 03:04:02 · 5 answers · asked by butterfliesRfree 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The Leaders of your country (whatever their party) only represent themselves - the rich elites.
They are greedy enough to watch people starve, so long as they make more money.
It's time the people united, and demanded a better deal from their leaders, even if it means fighting for it.
Vive la revolution !
God help America ( and good luck to you)
2006-06-29 03:24:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
That is a good question and I ask myself this every day. I am in my mid twenties and I purchased a small condo a few years ago. Between a mortgage, a maintenance fee that keeps going up because of gas, gas prices for the car, taxes that are ridiculous, and trying to own a car that doesn't break down everyday....it seems almost impossible. I am glad that I can do it on my own, but sometimes I wonder how anyone does it. My ex-boyfriend still lives at home and can't understand why I am always complaining. I wish he could understand. I don't think he would last a day.
The US doesn't fight for their own people. They are too busy sending money everywhere but where it should be sent. In Jersey, we have the highest housing market, so on a positive note, I feel like I can go anywhere now and survive. Surviving in this dump for the past few years has made me stronger in a way.
2006-06-29 10:12:30 · answer #2 · answered by jetskichick25 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Decades ago you could work a factory job that paid good money
to raise a family in a nice home. Now unless you have a college
degree in a demanding field your railroaded to the service industry
jobs with low to moderate income and little or no benefits.
The factories are fading out almost completely and are being replaced by lower paying jobs.
The dollar went further years ago also.
My $9.00 an hour job pays rent on a 2 bedroom town-home and the bills. I gave up on a car when I got my own place.(Mom's home was rent free). Bicycling to work keeps me from working
2 jobs or overtime to have a car. I have no wife or children to support unlike my father who had mom and 5 of us in a 3 bedroom house. But dad did work 2 jobs and sometimes 3 to have money to feed and clothe us.
2006-06-29 11:10:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It's hard these days just to make ends meet. My husband and I have two children, one of which is old enough to attend school but the other would have to be in daycare in order for me to work. Unless I can find a really good job making at least $12.00/hour it works out more for me to just stay at home. The cost of gas, daycare, a car payment + insurance.......it just doesn't work.
2006-06-29 10:41:06 · answer #4 · answered by Chris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 50 years old and going to college because if I don't I won't have any retirement. My job has no insurance, no 401K, nothing.
2006-06-29 10:09:18 · answer #5 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋