Clearly they just need to take their own advice:
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No more avocado toast
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Stop buying so much coffee out. Make it at home.
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Profit.
Simple as.
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Clearly they just need to take their own advice:
No more avocado toast
Stop buying so much coffee out. Make it at home.
????
Profit.
Simple as.
Also they could just get an easy job at McDonald's?????
They just arent qualified for that job.
Boot straps. Don't forget about the boot straps.
They could eat the bootstraps.
“I don’t want to have to worry that everyone is constantly changing my financial reality,” said Alison Carey, 64, of Oregon, a freelancer in the theater industry. “Let the economy do its machinations, but don’t put me in the gears.”
Sorry you had to learn it this way, Alison, but "the economy" has always been grinding people up in its gears. The main difference is, that it is now reaching you, personally.
I gotta assume a theater freelancer in Oregon probably didn’t vote for him
It's ok everyone they will all be a lot better off once manufacturing comes back to the US, they can make up the difference by working in a local sweatshop.
Didn't you hear? Vance is saying that manufacturing is never coming back to the US.
So even working in a sweatshop won't be an option. Well, I guess until we're colonized.
But it's so worth it when you remember that he ended all that DEI stuff and stopped those two trans kids from playing women's sports.
Over two trillion has been wiped out. That's one trillion dollars per trans kid.
Is America great again yet?
Let's go vote republican !
Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it Aw dang it
"But... but... but at least we stuck it to the libs didn't we? Right?... Right???!"
But the next Republican will for sure fix it!
Aw dang it
Well, if you voted for these dumbasses and are now pikachu over how idiotic they actually are....hard to feel sorry for you.
BTW, if you say "I didn't vote for that"......YES YOU DID. It's not like donvict was quiet about his love for tariffs.
I mean, I know quite a few retirees who actively voted for his opponent. So I wouldn't feel right saying that THEY voted for it, no? However, around my area, they definitely are a minority in their age group, so I think statistically speaking you are probably going to be right most of the time.
Oh, of course. I don't think anyone DESERVES to live in destitution - and this is probably where progressives like me get made fun of, but it's just how I was raised - even if they voted for donvict.
My lizard brain immediately wants to condemn people that were told not to vote against their own interest, but did anyway because of their hate of wokeness and DEI or whatever the hell. However, though I do rant here and elsewhere, I ultimately have compassion for people, even if it's from their own actions...
As for those that voted against donvict, of course they don't deserve it, though I know it's now quite fashionable to dunk on "boomers" as if they are some monolithic block and that means every single one of them, to a person has caused the Republicans to get worse and worse. Personally, I believe this thinking is goaded on by elites, because it only divides us further...in addition to racism, xenophobia, transphobia, if you can whip up the various age groups and pit them against one another, you can sit back and count your money and be comforted in the notion that few people will cop to the reality...
You keep saying retirees when I think you mean future walmart door greeters.
My fucking parents are going to end up Wal-Mart greeters and they will not admit, even after everything, that they fucked up voting for Trump.
oh that reminds me, our local old lady Walmart greeter passed away 😔
R.I.P. Ms Wendy
"Victor Fettes, 54, of Georgia, who retired last week"
Fucking hell, you guys can retire at FIFTY FOUR?
He was senior director of risk management, so I assume more than 100k+ salary a year.
I'm surprised he kept his job so long, seeing how poorly he managed his own risks....
you guys can retire at FIFTY FOUR?
My cousin retired 2 years ago at 48.
Stock market whiz? Nah: union.
He started working at a local mechanic in high-school, as engines were interesting; just sweeping up. He asked questions. He applied for his apprenticeship and the school district moved him to the 'trade' oriented school where the rough kids seemed to end up completely randomly when catchment overlapped. Did metal shop in his final year and found a funding programme to get through his first courses. Displayed a natural talent for adequate work and straightforward math that was apparently everything people needed when paired with his indomitable spirit and happier-than-sadder mood profile. In short: he hustled, he did his fucking work and he was a net-positive to work with.
Now we fast-forward. The union was good to him, and he moved into jobs where his 5'8 size, nimble fingers and "yeah, I'll crawl in the slushy muck" attitude got him as many opportunities as his quick wit got him out of shitty politics. He went to a place we call Fort McMoney and was able to exercise his options when bosses were dinks; and he did so very quickly and openly, explaining what's happening on the way out -- "We agreed on this vacation time, but you broke that agreement. I'm still getting on the plane tonight. I got a job with the guy down the road, so that's why I'm clearing out. I'm sorry it went this way, but we both get to learn from this. Good luck, and have a great weekend."
At 48 he'd done his 25-plus years at one career and many shops, and the half-pay-for-life union retirement kicked in.
He now rides his donorcycle with his adorable wife or they take the little car on trips to climb mountains or see a lake or something. He got a shitty place in a nice place, made some friends and some of them knew how to fix up his place and needed his own skills, and his easygoing attitude provided the glue to get everything fixed everywhere, and he's kinda set.
He touches grass and trees a lot, and the pics he posts on his cell phone show some great locations and his beaming face in the dawn light. He's fucking winning so hard and I'm half jealous and intensely proud of him because he is actually an absolute sweetie and a great and caring guy.
Guys, build better unions or build better labour code. Focus on getting into a work arrangement with a group that pretends to like you better than at-will dot-com fat-cat "we're a family" pizza-party dickheads think they're pretending.
Don't let them fool u by saying that this is just a correction. A correction needs a catalyst. The catalyst here is the tarriff. Trump created this mess. Rise up. Fight.
It’s almost like this is exactly what we warned them would happen.
Lol, I rolled my 401k to an IRA as part of a actively managed fidelity fund right after Trump got inaugurated. If I hadn't I would be down about 150k, instead I'm up 35k already, and that was after cashing out just below all time high.
That said,I decided to ride it out in my fuck around E-Trade account. I went from being up 25k on jan 1st to being down 9k today.
Trump's 'plan' is to crash the market so that people with large reserves of cash can buy at all time low. Then he'll back pedal his bullshit and things will go up, so they'll sell. It's not going to go back up to what it was before his watch, at least not with him around. People who don't have the cash reserves/appetite to buy in a recession will get fucked, and that's most people in the country
Oh well, should have raised your kids to be better people.
Retirees 'idiots' as they keep savings they need to live in volatile asset classes such as stocks.
Boomers lived their entire lives failing upwards. Why wouldn't they expect things to just go their way?
Going to brag a little bit. I've been very suspicious of tech and the US stock market for a long time. When I finally got the job I have now and got to choose 401k contributions I went heavy with international stocks and specifically avoided anything involved in too much tech. My 401k has gone down in the last week but we're talking barely 3%. The paranoia sometimes works in my favor
That’s the best part. The baby boomers created this shit and now they can’t retire. Good for them!
Bootstraps or whatever
I live in Canada and have a locked-in retirement fund, from a former employer, which I have zero control over. It's lost 10% since the Dumpster was elected.
That mf'er is killing us too.