Wall Street Protests

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by classicman

Easy Sam ...
I just thought his was an interesting tale. Primarily BECAUSE of when he went to school. (president at the time irrelevant)

I can associate with him on a couple things. I too went back to school that year and graduated in 2000 with 2 degrees. I worked 3 jobs to support my family and pay my own way at the time. Yet here I sit day after day looking for a real job and trying to figure out wtf I did wrong.


ETA - thanks for helping to support me Mr. noideawhoyouare.

That's nice that you found a pic of someone who could have been in your graduating class. But the man in the pic HAS a job and calls those who DON'T have a job in these difficult times worthless blood suckers he resents having to support. I'm supposed to give up MY social security and MY medical care for this spiteful jerk? I don't think so. I have paid into social security faithfully since the age of 16, and I still pay into it now. I worked to get through college - BA in Biology from the University of Colorado, then an MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver. Not only did I work, I got scholarships, and my parents helped when they could.

After I got my degrees, I worked for another 30 years in my profession, and I put aside money for my retirement, had IRA's, savings, the whole nine yards. Then I got sick. No one could figure out what was wrong, and I got sicker. I eventually was forced to quit my fairly high paying job. I used up all my reserves on medical expenses and living expenses until I was left with nothing but a small disability check.

Now the Republican Party wants to take that, too, along with my medicaid and my housing assistance. They don't just want to put the old girl to pasture, they want to send her to the glue factory. Me and thousands if not millions like me. Mad? Mad doesn't even begin to describe my feelings.