i always wanted a job to be the fool

To the street corner I go.

@ShimmerBodyCream - its a good paying job so long as your "clients" have jobs 

I know a lot of folks who have just given up on looking for work. It's depressing. I'd definitely say that the job scene is not improving, at least, not overall. Certain fields have seen growth, yes. But it's not enough for the country as a whole to get any relief. People are just tired of searching and are becoming more dependent on welfare. Some of them are my close relatives.

If there was a republican in the office now with all this same stuff going on,the regular news media would be showing ALL this stuff.Funny how they don't show the REAL truth when a democrat is in office.I wonder why they do that.News isn't biased,it's news right?

unless you're going to die in the next four years, i'm sure the republicans will eventually get their chance to create all these jobs romney is promising. But be assured that if you do get sick, obamacare will make sure the insurance industry won't kick your butt to the curb because of a lifetime $  maximum on coverage. perhaps then you'll be singing  "happy days here again".

         sad truth

What if I don't like either candidate?

sadly its the year of choosing the lesser of two evils. i live in downeast maine, economically depressed area for the most part.  life is what you make it. you work hard at whatever you can find. you live on less, simplify, and find that its ok. the world won't end if you can't afford the toys.  i find it amusing that all of the "poor" people i know of smoke.  they have computers, fancy phones and eat fast food. i just shake my head.  our government is not going to make it better for us. we have to make it better for ourselves and our neighbors.--karen

@tommytones - 15.3%  of Americans had no health care insureance when Obama took office its now up to 18%. oh yeah Obama just has been wonderful for those 18%. I thought he was trying to get health insurance to more Americans not less? Oh and Obama said we would be paying less all while that insurance than fewer of us even have, it costs about $2300 more per year for a family of four than it did when he signed Obama-care into law.

Happydays!!!! Four more years of this crap oh yeah

@traveler - pick the one you most agree with. Though I need to think you are nuts to pick the one who has run the country as poorly the last four years as obama has. and he is not even claiming he do anything differently. Four more years of the same things. But this time it will work 

@lifeontheWink - no doubt American poverty is not at all life threatening. Yet I fear that a lot of us would not last long if it ever got that bad again. What people forget it that before WW2 people in this nation could be poor enough to be mall nourished. The only reason Americans are taller now than the children of the great depression is because they did not have enough good food so they did not grow to full height

You know who is going to save America?

Vladimir Putin:

Man of steel, man of rubber, man of Russia. The banks shall kneel before him pitifully. He shall win elections. He is not some worthless, aging technocrat, hamstrung by asinine thoughts of rights and laws.

No.

He attracts the young. His personal magnetism attracts perky blondes from all walks of life. Their outlook is buoyant. Their beliefs firm.

Vladimir Putin.

He is watching you. He is forever vigilant for
his people. He cares. He cares about what they read in the papers, about
what they write on the internet, about whether they congregate in
groups of two or more. He maintains order. This pleases him greatly.

@lifeontheWink - "i find it amusing that all of the "poor" people i know of smoke.  they have computers, fancy phones and eat fast food."

BEST POINT EVER! My family is what most people consider "rich" but we shop at the salvation army and poor people laugh at us for shopping there. When you go to the salvation army on a Tuesday you get 50% off. On Tuesdays when you look in the parking lot you will see that the parking lot is filled with rich cars owned by rich people. They are buying cheap used discount clothes.

When you leave the salvation army parking lot and go to the shopping mall you will see the shopping mall parking lot filled with cars owned by poor people. Not exclusively but you can clearly see an obvious trend. Most (not all) poor people are poor because they are fools with there pennies. Poor people laugh at us for shopping at the salvation army so we get even by laughing at them for being financial FOOLS and spoiling there kids with every luxury under the sun then pleading poverty.

We also WORK 24/7.

@lifeontheWink - By the way you can eat at the oriental buffet and get better quality food for much cheaper then paying for McDonald's "food" that is a proven health killer. Health care??? How about wise prevention??? Exercise, quality diet.

@LadyboyRevolution - And the cost of dry, rice, beans,peas are dirt cheap. buying whatever fresh vegetable it cheap save a ton as does buying eggs, real cheeses on sale, whatever meat fish poultry pork is cheapest. Then cooking it fresh at home. Healthy meals are cheaper than most poor eat everyday

@trunthepaige - Great point. But I seriously think all the unhealthy condiments (salt, sauces, etc) must be addictive and ruins our taste buds for the quality healthy natural taste. But yes it is amazing how cheap healthy food can be.