Stupid Economy

[Travis]

My wife's job has been threatening that they'll reduce her hours. Well, I guess that became a reality today. She got bumped from 40+hrs to 26hrs/week. We were expecting maybe to 32, so the extra was a bit of a surprise. My wife telecommutes to a place in Los Angeles (We live in Montana). The tricky part is that she couldn't find another job in MT that pays like the one she has now. She's almost better off keeping the reduced hours. Working 26hrs/week to make almost the same as working 40hrs here. Plus we'd have to start paying for childcare, which we can't afford anyway. Stupid economy. So I guess I'll be ditching my lathe savings plan, scrapping the playhouse project, and eating PB&J for awhile until things start looking up. Stupid economy.

[Messman]

Trust me I know the feeling. So far the only thing I have been able to come up with is a part time job that give about 20 hours a week at 9.50 an hour after I had to leave a 30,000.00 a year job. It sucks. I am getting ready to write Obama and ask him for some money. After all isn't that his economic plan take money from someone else and give it to others, share and share alike.

 

[greasemonkeyredneck]

I stumbled on this post and had to comment.

 

For a while there I said the economy wasn't effecting us. We were so poor we couldn't tell any difference in anything. However, with the economy being down, the prices of everything has been inching up. Then, because of the economy, I haven't been selling as much woodwork as usual. Long story short, with seven kids in school, my wife and I are now just trying to figure out how in the %$#& we are getting school clothes this year. Then we'll of course has Christmas right after that to worry about. Anyway, unless you make cars or laws these days, you're $#&@ out of luck.

[Christina]

I can commiserate with y'all. My hubby was laid off work in January...........he worked for the largest gravel company in the US. He was a truck driver/ grader operator and made about $50,000 a year. Since then even the union hasn't been able to find him anything. There isn't so much as a convenience store position open around here! So we're living off my social security.......which of course doesn't pay the bills. We're going to end up losing our land and everything. My son works at a convenience store........been there almost 3 years and they cut his hours back to 2 days...........18 hours. He found another job at a pizza place next door to his other job for 2 days a week but it only pays minimum wage..................and he has to commute 26 miles to and from. So he's basically working to pay child support and gas to get to and from work..........NOTHING ELSE. I can't work......but would love to be able to. I used to be a charge nurse in a nursing home and made excellent money. This economy is going to make a lot of people homeless. It just really blows.

Christina

[deerwatcher76]

I Too have felt the economic crunch.The factory I worked at closed its doors and moved to China in 2004. I was lucky and found another job at less pay but wasn't happy there. Finally got a job at the VA hospital a lot less pay but I'm happy here. I don't blame any one politician I blame them all. They have made it hard for any manufacturing company to operate in the USA. They also want to keep taking from the working class and giving to Illeagals and others that do not deserve it pretty soon no one will have anything what will they do then?

JD