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The Stick
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Someplace Safe?
Posts: 17,328
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I hear all this crap about Obama being our best president ever and yet...
Haven't gotten a pay raise in the 8 years he has been in office.
My health care has gotten MORE expensive both insurance and cost that insurance doesn't cover.
The number of employees in the company I work for has dropped to less than half.
My company retirement contributions and 401K matching stopped.
Overall income went down because profit sharing bonuses stopped.
Income and property taxes increased effectively lowering my now frozen wages.
Cost of living, i.e. food and utilities went up.
The only thing that actually went down was the cost of gasoline. Basically lower by $0.40/gal.
I use 25 gal/month. That $10 or $120 a year in no way even comes close to what I have lost.
I make above the national average, but lower than the average household income.
Certainly hope Trump doesn't screw the US oil industry like Obama did in the name of alternative fuels.
They really need to tariff oil imports like they do other imports.
Example: It cost me $120 to import $840 headlight assemblies from the European OEM.
It would both provide the government more money (that they can use to fund the exploration of alternative fuels), but also allow the US oil producers a viable profit margin.
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Richard aka "The Stick"
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Last edited by RKDinOKC; 11-09-2016 at 08:34 AM..
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