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I am currently receiving SSDI disability benefits, and therefore, I receive Medicare. My Medicare is tied to my SSDI. If I lose my SSDI, I lose my Medicare.

This recruiter called me, showing interest in me for a 6-month contract role. It pays $40 an hour/40 hours a week, although it is short-term. Once the 6 months expire, I am without work again.

The issue is, I am on a fixed income with SSDI. If I make above a certain amount, I lose my benefits. If I lose my SSDI, I also lose my health insurance. My trial period has ran its course due to failed work attempts in the past, meaning I have no trial work time anymore.

"Now, that message of free trade is one I conveyed to Canada's leaders a few weeks ago, and it was warmly received there. Indeed, throughout the world there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition... And today many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period, called the Smoot-Hawley tariff, greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recovery.

You see, at first, when someone says, ``Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,'' it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works -- but only for a short time. What eventually occurs is:

First, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets.

And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars.

The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition. So, soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying.

Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.

There are those in this Congress, just as there were back in the thirties, who want to go for the quick political advantage, who will risk America's prosperity for the sake of a short-term appeal to some special interest group, who forget that millions of American jobs are directly tied to the foreign export business and additional millions are tied to imports. Well, I've never forgotten those jobs."

I don't believe everything has ever truly recovered since. I have had this sense of instability, frequent frugality, and stress ever since. I may have had some periods of financial gain, but they were brief and short-lived. In addition, socio-political hostility and tensions have become worse over these many years, especially starting around the Obama era. Traditional American values have been challenged and attacked all the way down to the family unit.

As someone who graduated high school in 2013, I have struggled to gain my footing in adulthood.