Reply #26: Hubby and i were just talking about this last night [View All]

[durtee librul]

and were wondering how people can make it with gas prices what they are and milk over $3 a gallon here in Michigan. I work at Chrysler and have a decent income, but still send money to our daughter at college (who is up to her ears with student loans).

Hubby is retired, but I gotta tell ya, we don't splurge either and it seems like it's hand to mouth some months when car and house insurances come due. I have to drive 35 miles each way every day to work as there is no public transportation which serves my home area and my work area. Car pooling in MI? HA! What a laugh. If there is more than one person in a car in the morning, you wonder if they are being car jacked. I used to car pool all the time in AZ and loved it. Even got a monthly stipend from Intel for doing so.

Health care is paid for by hubby's retirement (thanks UAW) but again as another poster noted, they are whittling away those benefits as well.

What I would like to know is this - we hear every month about all the jobs created and how the unemployment is low. For just ONCE, I would like to hear about all the people who have exhausted those benefits and aren't counted any longer. Talk about fuzzy math! (but then from a fuzzy headed decider, what did I expect?)

The waiters and waitresses of the world who don't make squat to begin with must just be dying with gas prices and all. It is so sad.

I guess the greedy don't understand that when they overdo, they are killing the goose that gave them all the golden egg.

It's time we take our country back and if that means voting out everyone, then so be it. 2 term limit for everyone. That way you don't end up with a bunch of stodgy old has beens who have no concept of the real world or the problems we all face on a daily basis. Our country was founded by people with 'no experience' so why not now? And from what I have seen lately, the 'experience' there in congress absolutely sucks.