Gas Prices
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As for EVs, the high gas prices make a strong argument that EVs are the future for many
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While I’m not taking ANYTHING away from GS3 and his hard work (yours too) etc, that’s really not true.
My spouse grew up poor, started at the company he works for at 19 years old at $9 an hour just as a basic employee.
21 years later he is an executive, only 24 positions like his exist in the whole company. He will be a VP (not THE vp but one of them) within a couple years.
And oh, we save. We live like a couple that lives on $50,000 a year combined. Our income is wayyyyyyyy more many times over.
My spouse grew up poor, started at the company he works for at 19 years old at $9 an hour just as a basic employee.
21 years later he is an executive, only 24 positions like his exist in the whole company. He will be a VP (not THE vp but one of them) within a couple years.
And oh, we save. We live like a couple that lives on $50,000 a year combined. Our income is wayyyyyyyy more many times over.
Had he chosen to work somewhere else at 19 his life might be very different.
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Its like anything in life - nothing is perfect, there is no magical pill etc.
If your broke, you need to struggle and bust your ***.
Again there is no country like the US where you can change your financial standing in a short amount of time.
One difference about living in America and especially in NY compared to a communist country like in the USSR - you HAVE to work VERY HARD and KEEP Working to have a certain lifestyle. In USSR, while you may not have had everything- lifestyle was way more relaxed and then people were able to retire early. Unfortunately we all know how it ended.
Again I rather have the fate of my life in my control than relying on govt to provide guidance.
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Again I rather have the fate of my life in my control than relying on govt to provide guidance.
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While I’m not taking ANYTHING away from GS3 and his hard work (yours too) etc, that’s really not true.
My spouse grew up poor, started at the company he works for at 19 years old at $9 an hour just as a basic employee.
21 years later he is an executive, only 24 positions like his exist in the whole company. He will be a VP (not THE vp but one of them) within a couple years.
And oh, we save. We live like a couple that lives on $50,000 a year combined. Our income is wayyyyyyyy more many times over.
My spouse grew up poor, started at the company he works for at 19 years old at $9 an hour just as a basic employee.
21 years later he is an executive, only 24 positions like his exist in the whole company. He will be a VP (not THE vp but one of them) within a couple years.
And oh, we save. We live like a couple that lives on $50,000 a year combined. Our income is wayyyyyyyy more many times over.
. Most of my friends from back then are dead from overdoses or worse. Thankfully I woke up as an adult, got my life together and built my everything up, with a lot of pushing from my brother in law. If it wasn't for him, I would probably be another loser living off of others. But also kudos to you and your spouse who also has that rare drive 👍
I simply stated my observation of the societal and economical reality in todays USA. So much misery, substance abuse, mental issues, homeless encampments everywhere, government corruption, and degeneracy that never existed in USSR. I'm doing pretty well for myself financially, something that wouldn't be possible in USSR, so I wouldn't want to go back, but I still think this world is messed up and advise young people not to bring children into it.
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All these "communism, capitalism, republicans, democrats" are just cliche labels designed to keep the tax cattle arguing with each other. For what its worth, on daily basis life in USSR, was just as transactional as it is in the USA, so it was communist just in the name of the government system.
I simply stated my observation of the societal and economical reality in todays USA. So much misery, substance abuse, mental issues, homeless encampments everywhere, government corruption, and degeneracy that never existed in USSR. I'm doing pretty well for myself financially, something that wouldn't be possible in USSR, so I wouldn't want to go back, but I still think this world is messed up and advise young people not to bring children into it.
I simply stated my observation of the societal and economical reality in todays USA. So much misery, substance abuse, mental issues, homeless encampments everywhere, government corruption, and degeneracy that never existed in USSR. I'm doing pretty well for myself financially, something that wouldn't be possible in USSR, so I wouldn't want to go back, but I still think this world is messed up and advise young people not to bring children into it.
The amount of criminals and alcoholism in Russia was insane. They were sent to gulags and murdered by Stalin.
Most of America doesn’t have homeless ppl or drug addicts on the sidewalk. That’s just big cities that don’t enforce the laws.
beautiful state, but i knew i had to move. first it was to atlanta, then central florida. i'm now ready for the next adventure. 
and gas prices for most here are the least of our challenges. we just like to complain.
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They figured they'd get as much as they can from the Reg gas users as they're more of them nowadays.
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Here in IL it used to be exactly a dime difference between grades. That changed around the high gas price days in 2007/08, never to return again.
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I'll be taking your place in FL by the end of the month. Wanted to get there just in time for hurricane season!
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