consumeronstrike

The Truth About Jobs

One more thing. I do believe some of this stuff. I believe the jobs that are disappearing are high-paying jobs. Probably some union jobs. People who think each ounce of their sweat should cost as much as a pound of mine might have to rethink that, huh? Too bad. Adapt and learn to live on less. I'll be damned if it costs ME $30 or $40 an hour to live. Why should it cost that much for anyone else? At the rate I'm saving and buying good dividend-paying stocks and building my income, I'll probably be done working before I'm 60. I am now 52. And my job isn't threatened because the cost of employing me won't drive my employer out of business. However...if YOUR job is threatened by the fact that I won't quit shopping at Wal-Mart and support your high-paying job by "buying American" I'm not sympathetic to that. Why should people at my level pay more for anything in order to help keep someone making five times more than we do? THIS is the new economic reality. Live within your means and you are limited not by how much you make but by how much you spend. I don't have a college degree. SO...I don't expect to be paid more than someonr who spent years racking their brains getting one. But I'm doing mighty fine with what I have.