Video: Living Paycheck to Paycheck in America

[dmcowen674]

12-8-2014

https://screen.yahoo.com/videos-for-you/paycheck-paycheck-123741453.html

Video: Living Paycheck to Paycheck in America

The Vories family lives on a volatile income — not knowing how much each paycheck will contain month-to-month. In tough times, Alex Vories borrows his father’s car to deliver pizzas at night.

 

[dmcowen674]

Don't expect anyone here on AT to know what this feels like.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Don't expect anyone here on AT to know what this feels like.

Really?

 

[First]

Don't expect anyone here on AT to know what this feels like.

Shut up.

 

[alcoholbob]

Why, because no one on AT was alive when the housing bubble burst? We must all be 4 year olds then!

 

[soulcougher73]

I dont know what that feels like because i made better decisions in life than they did. And im poor by ATOT standards But kids without a good education/job can ruin you. Everyone knows this...

 

[BoberFett]

I make 6 figures and don't worry too much about money right now. I've also been destitute, digging for change in the couch to buy ramen. My career has been up and down more than Dave's mom on that smelly hobo nine months before he was born. Life goes on either way.

 

[inachu]

Well at least we know how to stay in poverty.
Make lots of babies. Make sure the local gangs turn your son into a man and make sure your husband stays in jail and your daughter is going to marry your pimp.

 

[Matt1970]

Without any kind of backup plan you can be just one pink slip away from losing everything you have.

 

[dmcowen674]

im poor by ATOT standards

True ATOT is a lot worse than P&N on the Silver Spooners.

 

[Sonikku]

*adjusts monocle, wipes mouth with bib* I say, if they need more money then perhaps they should work a little harder instead of taking so much vacation time.

 

[Brovane]

Don't expect anyone here on AT to know what this feels like.

Stereotype much, do we?

 

[Victorian Gray]

Don't expect anyone here on AT to know what this feels like.

You know the lives of everyone here?

 

[MongGrel]

You know the lives of everyone here?

Apparently not.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Apparently not.

For sure not.

 

[sportage]

And whats worse is when that paycheck is 5K or more a month.
I know people living month to month on large incomes.
They live in $700,000 homes, drive new gas guzzling SUV's,
all the kids have high data plan cell phones, and they never cook at home.
You don't have to be in poverty or low income to live paycheck to paycheck.
Not in America.

 

[Blanky]

Life must suck grinding along like that.

Don't expect anyone here on AT to know what this feels like.

I think most here are better educated so as to be insulated from it. Luck comes into play as well to a degree.

 

[alcoholbob]

And whats worse is when that paycheck is 5K or more a month.
I know people living month to month on large incomes.
They live in $700,000 homes, drive new gas guzzling SUV's,
all the kids have high data plan cell phones, and they never cook at home.
You don't have to be in poverty or low income to live paycheck to paycheck.
Not in America.

5k a month in the midwest maybe. In SF Bay Area or in the NY you're eating instant noodles and living in a 1 bedroom studio and still living paycheck to paycheck.

 

[dmcowen674]

You know the lives of everyone here?

Well anyone living paycheck to paycheck in here besides me?

Haven't seen a one post they are.

 

[jumpncrash]

I don't make alot of money, like really not alot, and I still don't live paycheck to paycheck, but I have to be careful and choose what I spend my money on.

 

[MongGrel]

Well anyone living paycheck to paycheck in here besides me?

Haven't seen a one post they are.

I even grew up in Indiana, used to live in the Anderson/Muncie area.

Didn't realize that was you're point to begin with.

Had to a few years back almost, but even then over time I had retirement accounts etc could have cashed in then if was really desperate.

I've eaten plenty of ramen and baloney and spam in my lifetime when I was young growing up and budgeting just to pay bills, while working two jobs.

I'm too old for that now, and have some training I suppose.

Even 3 years ago I was working for half of what I was making two years before that, and the wife was in bad shape and had to find something else where she is in line for a promotion now and doing well, while fighting the government to get my grandmothers assisted living straightened out as my mother had died in 1980 in a car crash two weeks before my graduation and was an only child, my brother is a mess and as far as I know he is in prison for his 3 or 4th DUI that he used to suck the money out of my grandparents to bail him out for, my grandfather died a couple years ago and, and dad did also, and I have to take care of it.

Stop fucking whining and grow up.

You're one of the one's always preaching that shit, grow some balls.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Well anyone living paycheck to paycheck in here besides me?

Haven't seen a one post they are.

Why should/would anyone here tell you?

 

[highland145]

So the government doesn't pay a livable wage?

 

[Genx87]

And whats worse is when that paycheck is 5K or more a month.
I know people living month to month on large incomes.
They live in $700,000 homes, drive new gas guzzling SUV's,
all the kids have high data plan cell phones, and they never cook at home.
You don't have to be in poverty or low income to live paycheck to paycheck.
Not in America.

Sure, any idiot can spend more than they make. But look at all the luxuries you just listed. Are we supposed to feel bad for those people?

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Dave, you live in Indiana and that is one of the cheapest places imaginable to live. I know, because I live here. I also know what you do for a living and I'd wager you make more than the national median family income (somewhere between $51K-$55K, IIRC). I don't understand how you're living paycheck to paycheck, although since everyone knows you're a moron, it doesn't surprise me.