I am 34 years old with a B.S. in Architecture and should be living the American dream right? Welcome to WV! My clothes come from the Goodwill and second hand stores. Have cable TV but no digital for me and my TV is 19 inches.
My wife was born in Vietnam in 1960. Her mother married a GI, who brought them to the US in 1969. My wife spoke no English when she arrived here. Her stepfather pulled her out of school in the 6th grade because he left the military, got involved in the hippie movement, and decided they would “live off the land.” When my wife with her 6th grade education finally got out on her own, she took menial jobs until she worked her way up to $45,000/year and retired last year.
Her uncle was an officer in the ARVN. After the war ended, he was tortured, managed to escape, came to the US, and is now a successful businessman in Oregon.
My wife has Vietnamese friends who escaped communist Vietnam as boat people. En route from Vietnam to Japan, they were threatened by pirates who would typically kill the men, sell the children into slavery, and sell the women into sexual slavery. To avoid this fate, my wife’s friends smeared themselves with their own feces. It worked. They eventually reached Japan, then the US, and now they all have decent jobs.
You, on the other hand, can’t get a decent-enough job to pay for your health care, your heat, or your other bills. Apparently, that’s due to the difficulties of growing up in your native land, without war, speaking your native language, immersed in your native culture, suffering through a mere 19-inch TV with cable, and having a college degree.
I live pay check to pay check, barley can make our small apartment rent. Last month I had $6 left to my name. The last guns I bought I bought with a cashed in IRA from another company I use to work for and the rest I used to pay for food, electic, gas, renc, insurance, and water. I have had to borrow gas money from my dad just to get the 26 miles one way drive to work. Its 45 degrees in our apartment because we can not pay the electrical bill in the winter.
I can buy one gun a year with my Christmas Bonus, guess what, none this year went to Paying electricity bills.
You mentioned “guns” plural. You already have more than one gun. Assuming you have one gun sufficient for hunting so as to help feed yourself and your family, and to protect the same, what did you do with your money when you cashed in your IRA? You spent part of it on guns. Why do you need more guns? If you really care about your family and your situation, you should be applying ALL of your Christmas bonuses, IRA monies, and any other extra money to improving your situation. Buying another gun shouldn’t even enter your mind.