Hey, whiners: how close to home has this lovely republican economy hit you?

For my family:

My husband's employer will be shutting down US operations next year. His job next year is a 50/50 proposition, keeping it may mean relocating to Europe (interesting, but not anywhere near an ideal scenario).

He does lots of business with HP, which has just now announced that they are sending almost 25000 MORE jobs overseas, to add to those McCain spokeswoman Carly Fiorina sent there. I know many wonderful people, many in my neigbirhood, who work for them--good jobs all. I'm worried sick to hear what Mr. B@L knows; he gets loads of inside info and said not a word about this, which tells me they didn't know, either.

In my neighborhood of about 150 homes, eight have been FORECLOSED on, including people I knew and my kid's playmates. More will come; many have been abandoned.

Our buying power has been hit hard. I'm scared to death my husband may lose his job and health insurance (I have a chronic health condition).

My goddamn economy is anything BUT fundamentally strong, John McCain.

Shit here is gonna hit the fan. BO is gonna need some FDR level moves to get us out of it.

McSame is gonna be the end of the nation if we are stupid enough to elect him.

I married a European. We may end up there ourselves. We can grow all the food we need at her parents place.

Their newborn got pneumonia and was in the hospital for a week. Countrywide told them their mortgage was set for 5 years, they lied. That about says it all for them.

I rely on the tourism industry for income, which relies on salmon around here. And gas prices. That about says it all for me.

My oldest works for my son in law. My youngest is working and going to college. That about says it all for them.

I think the word I'm looking for is - fucked.

Gas and food prices are through the roof, and UC tuitions have quadrupled since Shrub and Schwarzenegger took office. I have two kids in college and one had to come home to a community college for now.

I hate these bastards!

My small rural town had only one real industry, a couple of high-end luxury RV manufacturers. They have had a lot of layoffs, and shutdowns. Doesn't affect me directly. I'm retired.

Now than you were four years ago??? That slogan has got to be used by the Democrats, and soon! Chris Matthews just basically summed it up very simply. There is a reason people can relate to Palin. She uses simple easy-to-understand terms. The Democrats need to make it VERY simple so these people understand what this means to them.

... and Obama talked for half an hour. (According to Tweety on Hardball this afternoon)

Without that two sentence answer, he will never connect with a large number of low attention span voters.

at a loss of $103,000. As it was our primary residence, and as I was out of work for a long time, we'll be claiming a hardship on our taxes this year, hopefully qualifying for the amnesty that was passed in Dec 2007 (ie: you don't have to pay taxes on the loss amount, which the mortgage lender reports as income).

In any other economy, we should have made at least $100,000 on the sale.

was living paycheck to paycheck. Now that I have lost my job, I am 2 steps away from being homeless and living on the street.

Fuckers

that's just where i live. My street has 20 houses on it, 3 in foreclosure and one up for a short sale.

area--are you a neighbor?

:hi:

Elk Grove, we're not Stockton-------yet!

Elk Grove all the time--my ex lived there.

Great to meet a neighbor!

Hey--Elk Grove is really getting to be nice!

We both work in the grocery industry and hubby finally made full time with the company this month.
Hopefully neither of us will be laid off, we need both paychecks to meet the mortgage and living expenses.

but she recently married a Folsom Correctional Lieutenant and much to my surprise moved into housing on the prison grounds.
She tells me she is still voting Dem we are still working on her new hubby.
My son lives in Castro Valley.
Damn I miss California.




Does Antioch still have that sweet smelling paper mill?

Scary.

almost right next door to us.

with budget in Ca. will really hurt us because so many state employee's live in this area.

Hoping things turn around quickly for everybody.

if we can't figure something out, and that something ain't happening. When you have to sit around looking at a three year old, wondering how you're going to get the money for Diapers, let alone Food, and after we spent a couple of hundred thousand dollars fighting Bush since 2000..

Makes you wonder why you bothered. Takebackthemedia.com was one of the premiere sites back in the early 2000's and now we're dead broke, I take that personal..

I've tried to drum up donations the only way I know how, by creating attack ads online..

Like THE PALIN BUNCH http://www.takebackthemedia.com/thepalinbunch.html and my last one "McCain: Environ - Mental" at http://www.takebackthemedia.com/pepperobama1.html

Someone was kind enough to donate 10 dollars on the last piece and I worked a week on it. Gets a little depressing..

With my arthritis of the spine I can't even really make it as a Walmart greeter :)

Oh well, as my dad used to say, "Somehow we muddle through.." :)

I'm still stunned at how FAST you can go "under"..

Yet the local media kewpie dolls still try to bullshit us that unemployment is 4% here. My ass it is. Foreclosures all over the place and businesses getting shuttered at an alarming rate. And in the meantime, the dumbfucks in the lege want...wait for it...more tax cuts.

He's been looking for a job for two months and has yet to find anything. On top of that, we are paying COBRA which is $1600/mo. My savings account, which was really money I got from my mom when she died, is already $6k less and won't last too much longer. That was supposed to be my 'down payment for a house' money, but once it's all gone, that'll never happen. It wasn't even that much to start with. The town I live in is very expensive, but the thought of moving to someplace new right now, makes me feel exhausted. I would like to give notice where I live, but honestly, my high rent is considered cheap with regards to all the other rents around here. I guess we're going to see what happens job wise since this is a job rich area and hope for the best. In total, it sucks shit.

About the time I recover, another buyout happens. I have no idea what kind of insane hit I've taken in effective wages and benefits but I'm down 40% from just two years ago in real wages.

We must stop McHoover, he'll almost surely do us in.

We must bring them down.

since Bush took office. In the past seven plus years, it has been incremental. First it was less interest on my investments that I use for income. Then it was less COL raises on my SS and more taken out for Medicare and medigap health insurance. Then of course it's about inflation, higher prices on everything. Naturally, it got critical this year with gas, food and medication costing way more than ever in the previous years. Now that my investments are hit because of the banking crisis, all I have left that is still secure is my social security and apparently they have that in their gun sights as their next target to drown in a bathtub.

At least if Obama gets elected there is a chance for these trends to be reversed and you guys can start over getting back on track. I can't start over at my age.

"laid off" they called it, but as I was over 60, I could forget about getting another job -- despite two graduate degrees and an excellent work history. I sent out scads of resumes and applications and had one interview. I had to sell my condo and move into a mobile home.

I'm doing OK now, but if Social Security is stolen from me, I'm screwed.

Luckily - LUCKILY - he was able to find work. However, he had to take a 15% pay cut. He hopes it's a good long-term plan.

my job went first to the czech republic....started working at a hospital at half my former salary. My husbands job was gone as of last January. Lost our home..we were already struggling and once his job left that was it. We moved to Nebraska where my husband found a decent job but we're all miserable. African American in a rural town has been rough but at least we're all together and we're starting to pay some of our old bills off. Could be worse but damn...at 42 I never thought I'd end up here.