Consumer Debt Hits an All-Time High

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12. It's deliberate. Watched another Orwellian Fred Thompson commercial today

touting the benefits of reverse mortgages for homeowners and praising the government for making this "tool" available to Americans to enhance their retirement years.

*Real* help from the government would mean making sure wages and benefits and pensions and Social Security make it possible for people to live, buy homes, afford healthcare and education, and retire without the fear of falling into destitution.

Instead, we are offered a multitude of ways to liquidate the possessions we have and transfer the wealth upward to the One Percent before or when we die. Reverse mortgages, annuity liquidations, sell your gold for cash, title loans.

We are to consider this "help." It's the new normal to be grateful for the opportunity to mortgage the house you bought and paid for, because you cannot possibly survive in the economic climate the plutocrats have deliberately orchestrated.