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In the last three years my income has been flat.
Meanwhile the increasing cost of energy and food has really begun to effect my quality of life. I'd day that those costs have increased from about 20% of my income to more like 30% of my income.
That's how I'm doing.
You will be pleased to hear that oil has dropped 25% in the last three months, and crop prices are about to experience a similar drop.
In the past four years, oil has never approached the peak it hit in July 2008, thank goodness.
I think the period 2007 - 2010 sucked for just about everyone, except for the kind of billionaires who are never touched.
Since then, the Federal Reserve has done a bang-up job of restoring the rich people's money. But for the rest of us, it is up to Congress and the White House to work together, and both sides are dead set against that.
Until the House and Senate and White House get their collective asses on the same page, unemployment will remain stuck, your paycheck-to-paycheck existence will continue, and the asinine rhetoric from both sides of the aisle will sink even lower.
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