Ouch!!!

[Shada]

Its to bad our wages don't reflect the true cost of living.

In the past six years, my job was eliminated. Given a different position. Froze my wages, until the devision I am now working in comes up to to the wage I had been making.

So basically that means that two years ago I got a ten cent an hour wage increase, last year I got a one time payout of $300.00 .. WOW... Impressive. Corporate greed. Yet gas prices are rocketing, all utilities have increased. Groceries are going up due to gas prices.

Times are tough.. and getting tougher I am afraid.
Sad for the future of our Country.

[Marilyn]

I feel for the people who had money in the IndyMac bank that failed. FDIC will cover the first $100,000, but if they had more than that on deposit, they are probably going to lose it. For many, that could mean their life savings for retirement. We should all be more diversified than that, so we are not caught if something like this happens, but it's kinda like not backing up your computer. Most of us know what we need to do, but getting around to it, or knowing how to do it is another matter. Maybe we are just too trusting.

Our world is changing, and we'd all better be preparing and being prudent with our lives and our funds.

[Tink]

I'm afraid that's the first of many Marilyn.

We might get a taste of what our grandparents went through during the great depression by the time it's all said and done.

[Marilyn]

I just checked the rates for the Rural Electric Authority in our county to see what their rates are, and they are paying $0.083701 compared to our $0.167. There is a rural substation right down the street from us, about a mile away. They do not provide service to our subdivision and cannot. So we have to pay double the rates. This is soooo not fair. There is some kind of agreement between the rural authority and the company that owns the transmission lines in the city.

[goofywife]

OK, I found my electric bill. We used 1211 kilowatts and the price is 0.125466 per kilowatt. We are with the local co-op. My DH works for the competitor OGE.

[Janet]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

I feel for the people who had money in the IndyMac bank that failed. FDIC will cover the first $100,000, but if they had more than that on deposit, they are probably going to lose it. For many, that could mean their life savings for retirement. We should all be more diversified than that, so we are not caught if something like this happens, but it's kinda like not backing up your computer. Most of us know what we need to do, but getting around to it, or knowing how to do it is another matter. Maybe we are just too trusting.
Our world is changing, and we'd all better be preparing and being prudent with our lives and our funds.

LOLOL....that and most of us don't have $100,000 to begin with....LOL...