Reply #64: I too could write a note like that

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Except I'm 52 years old, debt free, and have saved for retirement.

I suppose you could call me a 53 percenter, except that I don't pretend that if I'm doing okay then all must be right with the world.

Nobody is claiming that 99% of the population is in debt or unemployed. Many people are doing as well as they ever did, and probably will continue to do so. How arrogant they would be to think the rest of the country is lazy if they have been hit by hard times.

We all see pictures of depression-era poverty, but even in those days there were many who kept their jobs and homes. I wonder if they pretended there was no depression too.