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Re: Maher and friends on socialism
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I don't have any pension waiting for me. I chose to work in startups, and for myself. The money was good while it lasted, but there's not much in the way of golden parachutes, or even pewter ones, for failed entrepreneurs. My wife is supporting us now, working as a medical professional. I don't know how long her health is going to last, and I'm trying to find new contracts and a writing gig - things I can do here and still take care of her if she needs it - in case I have to support us both someday. We've got a fairly decent retirement account, but if it has to last us twenty years, we're going to have to move to the Dakotas.

I've got two kids in college, and the job prospect for new graduates, even in decent fields, sucks. Around here, summer employment is nonexistent. Why hire a summer kid when there are six adults waiting who will take the job all year round?

Meanwhile, the psychos in Sacramento are doing their best to raise our taxes and make the state as hostile to business as possible. And yes, I'm sorry, but I feel it when they take yet another chunk out of the paycheck. In short, they are after my goddam goods.

I'm not really bitching about my basic situation - I made choices, and took chances, and if things had fallen another direction I might be rich right now. That's how it works. I just don't need the usual idiots-in-charge making life even harder for me and the people who might hire me to do work for them. I can't earn my living as an aerospace designer working for mom and pop stores, which seems to be the largest business you can have before you become a Public Enemy to all right-thinking people in this state.

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