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Originally Posted by Guest
I worked hard the last 24 years at a job which included a pension and retiree healthcare for life. We worked for less wages than other companies, which our company acknowledged, but always pointed to the pension and healthcare. 2 years before I retired my company was purchased and the first thing they did was freeze the pension and the second was to fire 8% of the workforce. On the 3 round of layoffs they offered me a package to leave. So I retired 6 months earlier than expected but saved a coworker's job.
Good thing I saved all my extra money in a 401K and a mutual fund so when I retired I had 7 figures in my bank account/401K and no debt. Now I "make" 80% of my former salary....
I am responsible and I am center Left so I most often vote Democrat!
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You most certainly are not in the majority then. You are one of the responsible ones. The poster you referred to was making the point that the
majority of Democrats want someone else to take care of them. I have to agree with said poster because the policies they push and the candidates they vote for seem to lean that way. It is the social policies of the Democratic party that is shrinking the middle class. Those who are contributing can only contribute so much before their lifestyle also goes down the tubes. All I have to do is look around my middle class neighborhood and I see it going on all around me. Either more money is being taken out of their paychecks or they have lost their jobs altogether due to cutbacks. If the people applying for unemployment is down, it's because many have run out their time to collect and have had to resort to other measures - early retirement, for example, where they are now collecting social security and/or drawing from their retirement funds much earlier than they expected. This is what happens when we spend so much time on social programs instead of supporting an environment for businesses to flourish so that
all of us can stand on our own 2 feet. Except, of course, for the very small percentage that truly needs assistance - for those people, a helping hand is the right thing to do.