[dyed_in_the_wool]

For the moment, this allows the 56-year-old Hertzberg to continue living in his tract home despite being only marginally employed. But his debt is swelling, and his mortgage company controls his fate.

"I am rather screwed," he said.

Time to grow up, idiot.
BTW, the mortgage company doesn't "control his fate", he does. He just doesn't realize or accept it.

[Freedom4US]

The article is awfully insulting ain't it? Reads like an editorial for Weekly Reader, and every word longer than four words is followed by its definiton...