Damn .. "Generation Squeeze" .. so many good, decent, hardworking Americans at the total mercy of an internally overly distorted system (as most all places) .. it was inevitable globalization would mean that the people of America (what is it? .. something like 6.5% of the world population with something like 65% of world wealth? .. check, OOPS, about 34% in 2006 just saw) .. anyway, that America would inevitably have to give back some of it's unsustainable share .. that understood, it isn't right (what's that matter? well, it should) that the richest (in money terms) shouldn't pay back more of their own exorbitant, ungratefully possessed, so ungracious share (especially with much of it now earned in the absence of productive work) .. no, no envy at all here .. anyway it's also obvious that what is better for most doesn't matter to so many in our last great (grate) most Christian nation of the world ..
"“If I break my wrist, I lose my house,” said Susan Zimmerman, 62, a freelance writer in Cleveland, of the distress that a medical emergency would wreak upon her finances and her quality of life. None of the three part-time jobs she has cobbled together pay benefits, and she says she is counting the days until she becomes eligible for Medicare.
In the meantime, Ms. Zimmerman has fashioned her own regimen of home remedies — including eating blue cheese instead of taking penicillin and consuming plenty of orange juice, red wine, coffee and whatever else the latest longevity studies recommend — to maintain her health, which she must do if she wants to continue paying the bills.
“I will probably be working until I’m 100,” she said."
ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! .. she deserves a big hug .. as for the smugness in this ..
"“Watch out / Housing market went softer / Cooling down / Strong market is now much weaker / Subprime is boi-ling o-ver / Bringing down the house.”
The government said the analyst later sent a video of himself singing and dancing the first verse “before an audience of laughing S&P co-workers.”"
how uncaring and self-demeaning are they .. feel in the mirror, gang ..
By the Numbers: The world’s wealth distribution – the rich, super-rich and the rest of us