[amihow]

Looks like a lot of poor life choices?

Good Lord. Where have you been?

I know of people like those described.

The poor choices were not theirs. They were those of the elite who bailed out the banks, etc. Remember???

[caver]

I don’t know a single person that fits in that category.

[TomGuy]

The poor choices were not theirs. They were those of the elite who bailed out the banks, etc. Remember???

Yes.

25 years ago, a money market account was paying a modest 8%. One could also find CDs paying up to 12%.

For the last 2 decades, most of those accounts are paying LESS than 1%.

Anyone planning on interest on savings got shafted. Who is one of the biggest benefactors of low interest? The government. Imagine if they had to still pay 8 to 12% interest on the money they owe.

[Mastador1]

I have noticed that there seem to be more angry judgemental people on FR that simply can't conceive that not everybody in a situation like this is doing it by choice or "poor life choices" sometimes bad things do happen to good people.

I wonder did they sleep away the eight years of Obungo? There were thousands upon thousands of older workers that employers refused to hire regardless of how qualified because they were just too damn expensive to employ or the fear they wouldn't stick stick around because the pay was less than they formerly received.

[trisham]

Many of the poor choices are theirs.