Why is financial terrorism treated so differently than a terrorist bombing in America?

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25. Many people do not recover from being broke.

I have been wiped out by a medical bankruptcy. Before my spouse and I began to re-succeed at the American dream, i spent long nights looking at the ceiling, trying to think of an easy way to end it.

If we had a second medical emergency that attempted to do us in, it is possible we would possibly have succumbed to that emergency. Although MedicAid is available to poor people here in California, the ability to see specialists to help you is extremely rare. So yes, you can die from being poor.

I live in a County of only 89,000 people. yet in the last three years, I have known of three suicides. Three of 'em. I factor the collapse of the economy into the equation. Maybe us poor folks don't matter to you, and death to us by the economic inequities of a system meets with your approval. A system that now states it is too difficult to jail HSBC execs for laundering the violent drug cartel monies, while allowing the DOJ to go after state-approved folks running medical marijuana dispensaries, and doling out ten year sentences - I guess someone is helping you figure out that that is all A-okay. But things were not like this when I was growing up. Justice for all meant something. Now it means didley squat.