IF:
If you are still wearing clothes that you wore to work before you retired 10 years ago
If you buy gas at the lowest priced filling station available
If you ask your doctor to prescribe generic drugs from the insurance company’s “preferred generic” formulary
If your checking account balance is less than fifty dollars at the end of every month
If the only out of state trips you take are to visit your grandchildren
If you do your own yardwork and home repairs to save money
If you wait for the things you need now to go on sale before you buy them
If you shop for almost everything at a “discount superstore”
If the groceries you buy are mostly the house brand
If you let your 15 year old car go 10,000 miles between oil changes
If the “new” camera you got for your birthday was purchased from an advertisement on Craig’s List
If you shop regularly to cut the cost of your car and homeowner’s insurance, and if they are “bundled”
If the term on your term life insurance is running out, and if you may have to renew it at a much higher rate to meet the requirements of your mortgage company
If the biggest consideration when you got your “retirement car” was its gas milage
If your computer is over six years old
If you stream your TV rather than use a cable or satellite service
If people call you a cheapskate behind your back
If you defer needed repairs on your home and car because you can’t pay the higher credit card payment
If you notice when the price of something (everything) goes up, but your income doesn’t
If you liked President Trump and Vice President Pence because they understood and tried to make things better for the average guy, retired or not; and because they cared
If you don’t like being ignored and brushed aside by President Biden and Vice President Harris … being told that we (meaning the little guys) have to “sacrifice for the good of the collective” when our money doesn’t last until the end of the month
If you wish that the Biden administration cared more for we the people and less about converting the U.S.A. into a “socialist utopia”
If you wish that the federal government would quit diminishing the buying power of your money by spending more than they take in
THEN:
You must be “retired and on a fixed income.”
Please don’t get me wrong. I am grateful for every blessing we have: a house to live in, a car to drive, food to eat, clothes to wear, medical care … all of it. We thank God every day for taking care of us. We don’t deserve all that we have got. That is why we give God the glory for what we have.
All I am saying is that it would be nice if the Progressives would just get out of the way. If they can’t figure out how to make things better, then at least they might stop making them worse.
We can get by for the next four years. Americans are resilient, adaptive people. Personally, I am asking God to give me the
same attitude as the Apostle Paul when he said, “… for I have learned
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