Reply #14: I have a job, but I'm making half what I did four years ago when Bush [View All]

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...took over the country. In fact, I have one and a half jobs, the one that represents my prior type of work and a second part-time self-employed type job which takes about 20 hours of my free time. It pays only marginally better wages but requires additional out-of-pocket expenses that are not reimbursable, so I actually make less per hour. It will do for now till I find something more lucrative in exchange for my time.

For the first two years that Bush was in office I ate up much of my savings and borrowed against some IRAs and my home equity thinking that the policies of the republicans were not going to be economically as suicidal for the nation as it turned out. But then I realized what a mess Bush was creating. So I dug in my heals, bit the bullet and changed everything about my lifestyle hoping that a democratic presidential victory this past election would restore sanity and turn things around. That failed to materialize.

Now, we face four more years of what I have learned truly will be a neo-conservative/religious fundamentalists economic vendetta against all persons who think pre-Bush. I'm prepared to fight as an individual for my own economic survival, because I have nothing more to loose. I am also prepared to do this fight with or without help from my party, the democratic party. Throughout my 40 plus years of working and supporting myself and my family who are now all grown and successful and on their own, I have lived through every attempted republican purge from Richard Nixon, to the Reagan years, then with Bush I and I'll do it again. Bush II is a nothing, insignificant in the grand scheme of world affairs. An American leader for the people will emerge sooner or later. For now I have only one thing to say to this administration and their brown shirt followers, Cheney you!!