I am the squeezed middle class.

[Anonymous]

I simply don't understand this. My HHI is HALF that of OP's, and I thank my lucky fucking stars I have that much. I can't get through a day without seeing people who have less than I have and wondering how they do it. And I'm talking about hard-working, educated folks who can't be accused of making bad decisions (unless teaching and non-profit work is a bad decision-- I wouldn't put it past some DCUMs).

To come on here with a quarter-mil a year or more and whine about how haaard it is... well, I'm looking for a sentiment that's stronger than "disgust".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are not middle class and struggling to pay $90k in private tuition is not "squeezed." Open your eyes, get a clue, and stop complaining. If you don't want to work as hard as you do, get a new job. If you can't afford expensive schools, send your kids elsewhere. I have no sympathy for your original post and little respect for the kind of person who would write it.

Ditto to above pp.

I believe that something like only 2 percent of Americans make over $100,000 per annum. What the hell are you bellyaching about? You sound like a spoiled, petulant self-absorbed, self-consumed, arrogant, pampered American princess. Try visiting someone on a Fixed income of $1,000 per month. The rich always have to pay more for those who do not make even one-third of what you bring home. It is your choice to work in whatever job you have and, presumably, you chose this profession because you knew you could make a lot of money. You sacrifice time for money. It is beyond my comprehension when someone makes this kind of money and gripes. Have you ever heard of "thankfulness"? I know so many people who have been out of work since 2007; some have had to declare bankruptcy; cars repossessed; homes foreclosed; no medical or dental care. You need some perspective about life in the middle class. I can't even begin to tell you how much your whining disgusts me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I simply don't understand this. My HHI is HALF that of OP's, and I thank my lucky fucking stars I have that much. I can't get through a day without seeing people who have less than I have and wondering how they do it. And I'm talking about hard-working, educated folks who can't be accused of making bad decisions (unless teaching and non-profit work is a bad decision-- I wouldn't put it past some DCUMs).

To come on here with a quarter-mil a year or more and whine about how haaard it is... well, I'm looking for a sentiment that's stronger than "disgust".

Some people are just brats with an overinflated sense of entitlement. My response? Wamp wamp. Clearly, nothing would make OP happy so we should just leave her in an echo chamber to bitch and moan and dismiss her as the miserable wench she is.

[Anonymous]

16:21 - well said.


WAAAAAH is what I say to a majority here. Poor babies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quit your whining. In what world is $255K considered middle class? And your kids don't need a $90K/year education. That's just snobbery. If you wanted to you could change your lifestyle and earn less money instead of just bitching about it.

Amen lol.

My Dad made approx 60,000 dollars a year. He raised my 2 siblings and I on that. We didn't qualify for much in the way of grants. He gave me a little to help but most of my education I had to pay for myself via student loans, a couple of small scholarships (approx 1,000 a semester) and working my ass off (worked full time and went to school full time). I also had to settle for a cheaper college. But I still got my degree and I have a job. I teach at a small nursery school and make approx 30,000 dollars a year. Which means very little extra money, I work to pay the bills and probably won't be able to help my kids go to college which means they will have to work for it like I did.

I drive a used up car, bought it used and I'm still paying it off. I'll probably drive it into the ground. I rarely go out to eat or go to the movies or go out. The tv and internet are my 2 forms of entertainment.

That my friend, OP, is middle class. Working our asses off to get ahead in life.

I bet if you looked at your salary and where your putting your money you could come up with some areas that you could cut back. How much do you spend on gas? clothes? food? car payments? How often do you buy a new car? How much is your mortgage? Do your kids go to a private school? How often do you go out to eat or go to the movies? All those little things add up quick.

You seem as if you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. *Oh my God I make over 200k a year I'm so poor and this recession is so hard on us*

Sounds more like you've been living outside your means and now its catching up to you.
Try being on of those making under 60k a year, or on of the teachers or food service employees, janitors, etc that make under 20 to 40 thousand a year.

[Anonymous]

This area knows NOTHING about sacrifices. They would be FAR better off knowing about them, truly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not middle class and struggling to pay $90k in private tuition is not "squeezed." Open your eyes, get a clue, and stop complaining. If you don't want to work as hard as you do, get a new job. If you can't afford expensive schools, send your kids elsewhere. I have no sympathy for your original post and little respect for the kind of person who would write it.

Ditto to above pp.

I believe that something like only 2 percent of Americans make over $100,000 per annum. What the hell are you bellyaching about? You sound like a spoiled, petulant self-absorbed, self-consumed, arrogant, pampered American princess. Try visiting someone on a Fixed income of $1,000 per month. The rich always have to pay more for those who do not make even one-third of what you bring home. It is your choice to work in whatever job you have and, presumably, you chose this profession because you knew you could make a lot of money. You sacrifice time for money. It is beyond my comprehension when someone makes this kind of money and gripes. Have you ever heard of "thankfulness"? I know so many people who have been out of work since 2007; some have had to declare bankruptcy; cars repossessed; homes foreclosed; no medical or dental care. You need some perspective about life in the middle class. I can't even begin to tell you how much your whining disgusts me.

*claps and gives standing ovation*

Tell it how it is PP. Stupid rich people like the OP needs to open her eyes and take a look at the world around them.

I just posted prior to this, the PP that makes 30k a year. It's not easy, money is very tight. But I also realize that people out there have it much harder than I. At one point last year I didn't have enough money to buy groceries. So I had to eat what was in my kitchen--rice and peanut butter for protein. OP, I think you need a humbling experience like that to realize how tough people out there have it.

To this day, I try to help those in need via food drives, clothing drives, etc. Do you know how many rich people that I see that don't bother to help. Recently a grocery store was having a food drive. There was one lousy shopping cart half filled. No one else was buying anything. Makes me sad.

OP, Money and 90k colleges aren't everything, take a look around and humble yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I simply don't understand this. My HHI is HALF that of OP's, and I thank my lucky fucking stars I have that much. I can't get through a day without seeing people who have less than I have and wondering how they do it. And I'm talking about hard-working, educated folks who can't be accused of making bad decisions (unless teaching and non-profit work is a bad decision-- I wouldn't put it past some DCUMs).

To come on here with a quarter-mil a year or more and whine about how haaard it is... well, I'm looking for a sentiment that's stronger than "disgust".

How about being in complete disgust, revulsion, abhorrence, and that the OP and others like her are an abomination to the hardworking American spirit that many have lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not middle class and struggling to pay $90k in private tuition is not "squeezed." Open your eyes, get a clue, and stop complaining. If you don't want to work as hard as you do, get a new job. If you can't afford expensive schools, send your kids elsewhere. I have no sympathy for your original post and little respect for the kind of person who would write it.

Ditto to above pp.

I believe that something like only 2 percent of Americans make over $100,000 per annum. What the hell are you bellyaching about? You sound like a spoiled, petulant self-absorbed, self-consumed, arrogant, pampered American princess. Try visiting someone on a Fixed income of $1,000 per month. The rich always have to pay more for those who do not make even one-third of what you bring home. It is your choice to work in whatever job you have and, presumably, you chose this profession because you knew you could make a lot of money. You sacrifice time for money. It is beyond my comprehension when someone makes this kind of money and gripes. Have you ever heard of "thankfulness"? I know so many people who have been out of work since 2007; some have had to declare bankruptcy; cars repossessed; homes foreclosed; no medical or dental care. You need some perspective about life in the middle class. I can't even begin to tell you how much your whining disgusts me.

*claps and gives standing ovation*

Tell it how it is PP. Stupid rich people like the OP needs to open her eyes and take a look at the world around them.

I just posted prior to this, the PP that makes 30k a year. It's not easy, money is very tight. But I also realize that people out there have it much harder than I. At one point last year I didn't have enough money to buy groceries. So I had to eat what was in my kitchen--rice and peanut butter for protein. OP, I think you need a humbling experience like that to realize how tough people out there have it.

To this day, I try to help those in need via food drives, clothing drives, etc. Do you know how many rich people that I see that don't bother to help. Recently a grocery store was having a food drive. There was one lousy shopping cart half filled. No one else was buying anything. Makes me sad.

OP, Money and 90k colleges aren't everything, take a look around and humble yourself.

I have a fixed income of approx 2100 a month and even then it is tight. I only recently splurged and bought a tv (wahoo!) and a month ago a splurged and got some cheap cable for the first time ever.

I have a great amount of reverence for those who make little yet manage to make do. And many times those people are kinder and more humble than most (points finger to OP)

[Anonymous]

This can't be for real.

... can it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This can't be for real.

... can it?

I had that though as well. Maybe the OP is a troll looking for a reaction, he/she has been rather quiet lately.

However, money goes fast and if you look at the houses and cars that some of these "middle class" people drive and the clothes they wear you can see where all of their money goes. Then maybe they really don't think they have much. I've run into some really snobby people with their heads up their asses (oh, they make me mad lol)

[Anonymous]

Shout out to the smushed lower class, those of us whose credit card interest rates were raised just for the hell of it before January and are now being told our rates can't be lowered because we can't maintain our payments. Those of us who were forced out of our pedestrian homes because we bought into the American Dream fairytale the banks were selling us. Those of us for whom Ramen noodles are an everyday feast with frozen vegetables added (because of a coupon from Safeway). Those of us who are driving ten year old cars with a gazillion miles on them because we can't possibly afford a new car payment every month, not because we consider these cars vintage or feel this how we relate to the common man. Funny thing is the economic depression of the last several years hasn't affected us much-we've always been poor. When the squeezed middle class start having yard sales with flat screen TVs and barely used leaf blowers on sale, then I'll weep.

[Anonymous]

Great quote here:

“Clearly… money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery."

http://www.mymoneyblog.com/archives/2010/05/happiness-is-earning-60000-a-year.html

[Anonymous]

In fairness to the OP, she posted in February. Not sure why this was revived now.

[Anonymous]

20:54, I have the same experience-- the recession hasn't really affected me. My career doesn't pay much, but the world will always need its teachers/nurses/plumbers/barbers. Bet the aging children who went through their MBAs with dreams of insider trading opportunities in their hearts and dollar signs in their eyes didn't think of that. Who's laughing now?!