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Originally Posted by icenine
Even for Ohio $10 bucks has to be barely enough to scrape by on. What is awful is that my wife makes about the same here in Cali....at a Casino. She is more fortunate because of course she has my income to fall back on. But it has to be hell on earth for anyone making so low an amount here without another income to fall back on. That is why everyone is working three jobs when one used to do.
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It's tough sledding out there, and I feel sorry for anyone who is chained to the millstone of debt...whether they have a good job or not. The good job can disappear in a heartbeat. Debt doesn't.
Since I don't hang out with the ultra wealthy, the few people I know who are not only comfortable, but confident, are those who made enough to rathole a pile, those that inherited a pile, an insurance agent who managed both, a few with private pensions, and mostly those with a government pension. And they're not rich...but safe...for the time being.
But for the average couple, with two jobs, two kids, two cars, a house, a credit card...and are basically just paying interest on all of it...I can see how a few months of hard luck will leave them on the street.
And I don't see things improving that much, if at all.
Chas