Are you still living in the crappy apartment in HI and clinging to every word of "gh15" for how to live your life...at 50 years of age? 
Yes, my living standards has taken quite a dive since getting laid off from my aerospace job almost two years ago. A company I was with for 17 years. I join the ranks of millions of Americans who lost everything. My sister also worked for a company for 25 years and when it went belly up so did her 401k and retirement. What's your point?
I assume, since you feel you can look down on others less fortunate or financially successful as yourself, that you are doing well. Maybe very well. Good for you. But don't ever take for granted your good fortune and being born in a country that has afforded you opportunities you would not have gotten if you were born in many, if not most, places in the world. A privilege you did nothing to earn or deserve. You just got lucky, as I have, being born in a tittering but still great country.
Though my life style is modest it's still light years ahead of what most people in this world have to endure. And don't ever forget that and I don't complain. I work three jobs, seven days a week, all bills are paid, and I never go hungry -- something (hunger) that is routine for most in this world. And I've been through tougher times and had to live out of my car while still only 18 years old until I was able to get on my feet and put myself through school. And never was I on the public dole or on welfare taking hand outs. I don't exactly come from a good family and never had the support of say, Wiggs, who was able to move back in with his family while he was unemployed. Nothing wrong with that. That what family is for. I am pleased that now he has recently found a decent paying position and is able to afford gear and weight loss products and can eat better and get on his weight loss program. Perhaps you as well have a safety net should the rug be pulled out from under you. Be grateful for your good fortune.
But don't ever take from granted that what you see around you will always be there. Don't think that this country, and the relatively free and open culture, as well as our staggering prosperity -- that was paid for in blood and treasure by previous generations -- will always be here. Don't think that just because your savior, Obama, says to print a trillion dollars that suddenly we will be a trillion dollars richer. Don't think that just because he's going to decided what kind of cars the auto makers should produce and demand standards that increase their cost that they are just going to take it and not move to another country to run their business. Don't think that not calling a war a "war" or a terrorist a "terrorist" will mean that it will just go away.
Be grateful my angry and bitter internet warrior. The future of this country does not look bright and there's no guarantee it will always be here. No culture, no matter how rich and powerful, has lasted forever. And if things ever get hand to mouth you may find that your cushy life has made you soft and you will be no match for the scrappy survivors who accept setbacks, hardships, obstacles and pain as just a normal part of life.
I've briefly gone through some of your previous posts since you have now called attention to yourself. You do not seem to be a person of much substance and character. Therefore, taking my cue from gh15, who whether you agree with him or not, does add something to this board and has a lot more people "clinging to his every word" than they do to you (which may explain some of your animus towards him and people that listen to him) I will dismiss you.
Dismissed.
Pellius approved.
