2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Steve Leser for VP! [View all]DFW
(54,407 posts)Like my brother in law who just lost his job last month at 52 and my sister who never got a regular one in the first place. I've had a steady job since I got out of college, lucky me. I still work for a living, so no, I don't get to join the ranks of the hand-to mouth. Plus my wife is German and we live in Germany, so no, we don't starve. It sucks to be poor and live paycheck to paycheck, but you're making it sound like some kind of noble status to aspire to so you can post about it, and you can't be in your club if you can't produce the proper credentials. I've worked since I was 23, same outfit, sometimes I even get a weekend off, maybe every second one. Excuse me if I don't whine. I made my own job security by learning 9 languages (most NOT in school) and convincing my employer to let me structure my job so that no one else could replace me. When I married a German, my job came to Germany with me. I off-shored it myself, to my own financial detriment (but gained a fabulous wife, so to my way of thinking, I still come out ahead). I pay my dues, plus a lot higher taxes than you people back in the States. I haven't been promised anything by either government except Social Security, which with the cost of living in Germany, should get me through at least the first ten days of each month.
As for Bernie supporters, why in the world do they automatically all have to have their future survival in doubt? Jim Dean doesn't. Katrina and John Nichols sure don't. Thom Hartmann doesn't. Membership in that club isn't as exclusive as you make it out to be. As for Hillary supporters, hell if I know. I don't know many of them outside of Howard Dean.
So go create epithets for me. When I get a ride in a limo, I'll let you what it's like to be a limousine liberal. You can tell me what it's like to diss people for being one without having the faintest idea who you're yelling at.
Come November, 2016, I'll gladly be casting my vote for the Democratic nominee, and if it's Bernie Sanders, I have no problem with it. He won't be spitting on me. He'll send me a mass mailing thanking me for my support (like the ones I already gotten from him, by the way). All you do when you shoot at allies is have less allies. Fire away if it makes you feel better. Me? I don't own a gun.