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Curmudgeoness

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57. Yours is such a common story

Mon Sep 2, 2013, 01:22 PM

Sep 2013

that it breaks my heart. I still cannot fathom that we allow people to slip from a comfortable middle class into poverty without blinking an eye....and then the victims of recession or illness are blamed for being lazy or not planning or any of the other cliques we hear all the time. It is a hard life when you were not born into money.

One of your comments really hit me---that other health issues eased when to took the early retirement. What a shame that not having money to pay all the bills and having to dig into all your reserves, and still you may not be able to keep your house, isn't as much a stress as working was. That says it all about the state of labor today, doesn't it?

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