Tag Archives: middle class

401K Apocalypse?

October 6, 2008 – 11:12 am

I just read an article that says the financial turmoil has wreaked havoc on workers’ 401K plans. I say…”tough.” First of all, my plan has fluctuated +/-1% each day over the last few days, and would have probably been up if my own company stock was performing better over the last year. I [...]

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Your Not A “Real American”

August 23, 2008 – 9:26 am

So as I’m watching the pundits on MSNBC’s Morning Joe talk show pontificate about why Senator Joe Biden is a great choice as Vice President for Senator Barack Obama’s campaign, I was disturbed by commentary that Obama is not cut from the same “hard working, middle-class mainstream values and experience” cloth as Senator Biden. Host [...]

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Scratchin’ and Surviving

July 24, 2008 – 12:45 pm

Out of the 8 million stories in New York City, according to the Associated Press, 1.8 million of them rely on food stamps. Unfortunately that number is likely to rise, and if one thinks that is only just Blacks and Latinos comprising a huge chunk out of those statistics, you may want to re-train that [...]

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