grunt11b
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I still have a job.
I still have a roof over my family's heads and clothes on our backs.
My family is not going hungry.
I am very thankful for everything that I have and certainly do not take any of it for granted.
However, if you listen to current political rhetoric, you'd think that I'm an exception to the rule and one lucky son-of-a-bitch. But if I stop and take a look around, the eye-ball test suggests that I'm more the rule than the exception, and the political rhetoric is simply overblown fear-mongering.
So which is it?
I'm in the same boat, I have a federal job, my family is doing okay. I think you are correct, especially when I see welfare recipients buying T-bones at the store the first week of the month when I "The working man' cannot afford such a thing most times.