Reply #23: That's just it . ..

[HughBeaumont]

the other day, my wife said "why don't you get a second job"? I mean, we're about 20 years away from even looking at the word "comfortable", but Jesus, we aren't exactly earning a pauper's wage either. During Clinton, if we had made comparatively this much, we would be sitting pretty. Now I have to get a second JOB to simply pay BILLS, even though both of our salaries went up a little?

It's just that I always thought that once we got more money things would be better, but they're pretty much going from being the exact same as 4 years ago (when I got a new job after being unemployed for 5 months - another gem of the Bush-ministration that many have experienced already) to getting worse.