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The wife is starting to freak since we can't afford the Cobra payments and we won't have any insurance.

I thought you were talking about the Mustang Cobra car. I'm on my first cup of coffee so that explains my confusion.

We went through a few months of no work here, it was scary.

Wishing you luck and saying a prayer for you and your family.

[#1CTYankee]

"I thought you were talking about the Mustang Cobra car. I'm on my first cup of coffee so that explains my confusion."

That's funny, I could never afford a Cobra or for that matter the insurance.

Things have really changed the last five years, I worked in the aircraft industry as did my wife.

The place I worked closed and moved all the work out of state. No transfers allowed.

I landed a job with a manufacturer of consumer products taking a fairly substantial pay cut. Then two years latter the massive layoffs hit where she was so she stayed home with our baby and toddler.

Things got very tight then and have been since.

Funny, we were making about a hundred thousand a year back in 2002. Prior to the layoff last month we were struggling by on less than $40,000.

We never knew how good we had it.