Why these good times feel so bad

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Hehe, thanks Ima.

WOW, who slipped BA the crack this morning?

BA, no more triple espressos with sugar for you, my friend!

I'd tease you too, but anybody with a husband who is from the South and isn't afraid to spend money wildly on things that allow him to sit in a tree for hours with a six pack, a high-powered rifle, and deer urine on his shoes-- and call that "recreation"!-- are people I typically avoid teasing.

I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid.

Boy, did I derail this thread good. I guess the least I can do is try to get it back on track. The original topic may not apply to everyone, but it certainly does apply to me. Job security seems to be hard to come by nowadays.... So much so that many people (around me anyway) have come to accept this as the norm.

This may or may not be what the future holds for me. I don't know. The only thing I can count on with any certainly is what I am able to accomplish on my own. And that's why I am so determined to be debt-free (and keep it that way for as long as I can). For example, once I get rid of my student loans, that particular debt will never haunt me again. And every month after that, I get to bask in the freedom of having that monthly amount freed from my monthly budget. Can anyone take that away from me? Not really.

So yeah, I am feeling fairly pessimistic about job security. That's why it make sense to me to be as financially free as possible.

[tinapbeana]

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I'd tease you too, but anybody with a husband who is from the South and isn't afraid to spend money wildly on things that allow him to sit in a tree for hours with a six pack, a high-powered rifle, and deer urine on his shoes-- and call that "recreation"!-- are people I typically avoid teasing. I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid.

you've got it all wrong, BA!

there's no beer. dh goes hunting with his father, who's an independant baptist preacher, so the beer would be slightly frowned upon

as for the original topic, i must fall back on one of my family's mottos: "Expect the best, but prepare for the worst"

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there's no beer.

But everything else is true? Comforting.

[kristinecfp]

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Great thread, hijacked or not!

Back to the original topic though... my dh works in the plumbing industry, which is not enjoying the good times that our general economy is. He's been very pessimistic and down about the economy, so I have to keep reminding him that the economy itself is not doing bad, just the housing/plumbing industry. Unfortunately, it doesn't make him feel any better, but I know it could be a lot worse if we were facing a poor economy (high inflation, poor stock market returns) in addition to weakness in the housing industry.

[MarianneJ]

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I admit I didn't even read the article. (I am such a bad girl). However, just as a comment on the general theme, I would say that most people don't give a crap what "the economy" is doing, they are only concerned about their own personal economy! It is nice that the markets are doing well and I do have some money in a Roth from when I was working, but since I am in school and my DH has a crappy job just to pay our bills I must admit that I am not real interested in how "the economy" is doing these days.

The reason people aren't dancing the happy dance with tears of joy running down their faces because "the economy" is booming is because they are just scraping by, are worried about losing their jobs and how the hell they are going to pay for their cancer treatments because they have no health insurance!!!

[JBinKC]

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These aren't necessarily good times for many people. It appears people continue to get squeezed at their jobs thanks to the term "outsourcing" and your job is at risk as long as there is someone qualified to do it for less. You can thank world trade. Unfortunately, a big portion of the thriving US economy creates nothing and is about regulation, compliance and asset shuffling. Hopefully you are one of the privileged few that work for Goldman Sachs.

What makes it worse is a large portion of the population has few skills or the ability to adapt to these rapid changes without lowering their standard of living.


Regarding the strength in the stock market: It has been heading higher not on traditional things like interest rate indicators but rather responding to lower oil prices.

[LuxLiving]

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Hey BA, watch that foot buddy, I've got a family member making a more than decent living selling that deer urine (FOR REAL peeps!).

You can't win for losing can you??? hahaha!!

Keep those hunting guys up the tree -- my family's livelihood depends upon it!

Economy? Ehhh, bleck! Hubster has not had a decent COL raise in a coon's age and is one of those in an industry that thrives off of the booming 'retail' economy. Lot of his company's problem is the majority of the workers do not care about producing a decent product, but only on Friday's 3:00 pay envelope. Count us as being some of those caught in the 'not necessarily good times'.