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Money & Finance > Insulation from Reality

Insulation from Reality

I think most of our politicians are suffering from this malady. They are too far removed from prices at the grocery store. They don't fill up their own gas tanks or buy their own medicines.

Yesterday I reeled in shock as I went into Dollar General to buy the generic antihistamine that I use in the fall. It had gone up almost double the regular price. It is a very small example but one that is repeated over and over on everything that we buy. We are fortunate enough to be able to buy what we need but there are lots of people on fixed incomes that have to make the hard choice between medicine and food.

Now the politicians who got America in this mess are dithering around about how to solve it. They are going to have to make some hard choices and they are worried about saving their political necks. They don't want to give up the fantastic trips that the lobbyists offer or any of the other perks, albeit disguised as legal benefits.

No matter who is elected President, we are going to see some people blame him for our economic woes. That is hardly fair. Wealth hasn't trickled down. It has created excess and more and more greed.

Can you imagine what a horror it will be if the Democrats lose this election? I shudder at the thought.

posted on Sept 26, 2008 6:21 AM ()

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If people were on a fixed income as I am, they would understand a whole lot better. My income hasn't gone up a dime; yet EVERYTHING I have to buy has doubled in price. I often have to go days without medicine because I just don't have the money to buy it. I got a job; then got laid off August 1 because my company couldn't make payroll. Their lending sources had dried up. Kenna, who had worked for this company for ten years, was also laid off. These damn politicians all should have to walk in a senior citizen's or a single parent's shoes for a month.

comment by redimpala on Sept 29, 2008 9:47 AM ()

Mama said that when she was young, her father sent her to live with a relative on a farm in Florida. The morning after she got there, she woke up and everybody was gone out to the field, leaving nothing for her to eat. They had greens and potatoes at lunch, and no dinner. She was there the whole summer, and never had more than one meal a day, and had two crocker sack dresses her mama had made, one to wear and one to wash. She survived the depression, but I think it changed her forever. She lived in dread of poverty. She worked hard at at least one job all of her life; usually two or three. The Depression just never really left her. I worry that our younger relatives will live like that. What good will it do, bailing out the guys at the top again. they had their chance, and they blew it. I say, let them live with the consequences of their own greed.

comment by thestephymore on Sept 27, 2008 11:53 PM ()

Completely true, Jeri! They have NO idea about prices that ordinary citizens must deal with... They can't even imagine how hard it is sometimes. They do live in a bubble. Well, we could think about becoming lobbyists... that get a LOT of handouts!

comment by sunlight on Sept 27, 2008 7:53 PM ()

So True Jeri, we are certainly not better of than we were 8 years ago.

comment by ciscawikkeling on Sept 26, 2008 11:32 PM ()

I was born in the early years of the depression. My parents took in my father's brother who paid rent. Tu and I slept on a foldout in the dining room and he got our room. Later another uncle lived with us, a real control freak. I do an imitation of him that is priceless. The one nice thing about sleeping in a large crib until I was 16 was that I could drape a sheet across the bars so they wouldn't touch me during the hot nights. (No A/C -- are you kidding?)

comment by tealstar on Sept 26, 2008 5:53 PM ()

Why have the CEO's and other bigwigs been allowed to walk out with millions?

They should be forced to give it back and then some. Maybe they should be fined the equivalent of the "bonuses" they've been given in the last 8 years. Certainly, they and others members of the super wealthy class - including the Bush clan - can probably fund a bailout all by themselves.

comment by catdancer on Sept 26, 2008 4:08 PM ()

However, in politics only the wealthy can afford to run for office. We are ruled by the elite who, as you say, have no idea what life is like for the regular Joe's. I'm afraid that things will only get worse.

comment by angiedw on Sept 26, 2008 11:02 AM ()

I liked them to put all these crooks away.Make them pay
a huge fine.They are greedy people in that business.
They ought to suspend them without pay forever.

comment by fredo on Sept 26, 2008 10:23 AM ()

You're right Jeri. As I have posted, the bailout is necessary. The boat is managed by Wall Street, but we are IN IT. If our financial institutions go down, we all suffer and some of us won't recover. It's a shame that people feel vengeful to the point that they can't see the consequences.

comment by tealstar on Sept 26, 2008 7:32 AM ()

I am so with ya... I am afraid for Roe vs. Wade, the economy and NOTHING CHANGING if the Repub's win. bleh.
man o man.
HAPPY FRIDAY! Even though they are all Saturdays to you.

comment by kristilyn3 on Sept 26, 2008 6:42 AM ()

And to think we are going to bail out institutions that because of greed used terrible judgement, and whose CEO's earn 30, 40, even 60 MILLION dollars a year!!!! Hardly seems right.

comment by dragonflyby on Sept 26, 2008 6:26 AM ()

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