How many paychecks can you miss before you are homeless?

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Honestly?

Based on cash in three savings accounts - not touching investment types of accounts - at our current lifestyle - many years.

Think about this - I've asked folks to get damn angry about the rate I pay into Social Security/the cap. I would like people to get damn angry about their wages and other safety nets.

I work for a major telecom.

My husband is a business owner - his lowest paid employee is a receptionist making $19 and change an hour. But he grew up for the most part surrounded by Italian fascists. You can see a very young Uncle Nicolo in pictures with Mussolini. In that mindset - if you have a union form in your business it is because you have failed your employees. And my husband extends benefits to his team that are comparable to what my brother in laws extend to their employees in Germany and Italy.

We have plenty of money. We do. We could probably move from the "rich" column to the "wealthy" column - but we would rather people live with dignity and respect and not have t be ashamed of ourselves.

Collectively - as a country - we ought to be ashamed of ourselves for setting the $10.10 bar so low (Impossible to live on in the North East I-95 corridor), not taxing the affluent to wealthy at a rate high enough to make sure no American goes without, and not shoring up our Social Security to provide for the storm of Baby Boomer as well as raising their rate of "pay" for their service to America when Reagan changed the rule book on them halfway through the game.

randy - ask me a question you never get a simple answer. But this is something I hear lots of swearing in Italian about in my household. No has been laid off by my husband the past few years. He responded in 2008 (before I met him) to the Hedge Fund Managers fucking up and over America by making a pointed decision to go "get his taxes back". He actually had four new hires in 2009 to help him spend the Hedgies money on what he calls "people who matter".