Elections have consequences. Supporting Obama with your TV viewership has consequences too.
I guess this poor man has nothing to worry about now.
He was 60 year old and tried desperately to find a job.
“Mark” is a gaybo. Sorry for his luck. He needs to worry about his situation (shared by millions) rather than he is a peter puffer.
I read the whole thing and the man was a old sick gay man who was tired of life and looking for someone else to blame.
Any reason you think this screed by some mindless Communist is worth reading? If this is the content of the mighty Zero Hedge, it is a real loser site. This is nothing but some POS Lib whining. At age 60 lossing your job should not be the end of the world.
Did this guy spend so much that he was going to have to work another 20 years for retirement? How is that going to happen? Screw you Mark. Get off your ass and solve your problems one way or another.
I can’t speak to all of it, but he is right about a few things ... the people that get screwed these days in this country are the people that “do the right thing”, as in work, pay their bills, buy only what they can afford, don’t take kickbacks and cheat in their business deals ... they are the ones who pay the price for all the venality and corruption in DC and among the political class.
This is not the same country I grew up in. I don’t recognize much of it anymore, and I am sick of sharing this land with the likes of Pelosi and the scummy totalitarians who lust for an all powerful government.
There will be millions of us in the same boat with this guy ... jobless, broke, barely scraping by, if that.
I just want to live long enough to see some of the political, banking, and corporate overlords guillotined in the public square.
A 60-year-old man with 35 years in management should be debt-free with significant investments in his 401(k), Roth IRA and several rental properties that were paid with cash.
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Very sad letter and saddest of all, it seems he was suffering spiritually. I’m sorry that the evil that’s always roamed the earth won out over him.
Pray for his soul and for those he asks God to damn to hell.
“Jump!”
This is very sad. He said he had no friends and no family and shelters won’t take single men.
I would guess that was depression and discouragement talking about the disconnect from friends. There was no reason for him to starve given all the soup kitchens and food pantries around. It was not America who abandoned him and named him worthless. The poor guy abandoned himself before he murdered himself. He named himself worthless because he had no money and no self sufficiency.
I wish someone could have helped him. God Bless him.
For all of the people who feel that Americans should have been more careful, it is just not possible for the average American to buy a house for cash. Many people spent their money carefully enough, but basically any use of credit, when combined with this employment situation (especially for people with larger commitments, including children), has created a scenario where losing a job is the end of the world as you know it (for several years at least). We’re not here all that long in the larger scheme of things, and the older you are the more clearly you see this. Mistakes were made, usually by people trying to replace stagnant wages with credit card debt to maintain a standard of living corporate America had traded away (with the cooperation of politicians); this situation has been developing for decades. The complicity of banks in over-valuing homes, then seeking bailouts when the buyers went into foreclosure, shouldn’t be ignored. There is wrong on all sides here.
I have been hearing more and more 60 year olds using phrases like “they pulled the rug from under us after we worked all our lives.”
I’m a lot younger than this guy, and was fortunate enough to finish school when Bush I was beaten due in part to a horrible job market. I’ve never assumed anything in terms of work, but people older than me have every right to feel let down. People in their 50s and over, who did everything right, have been shut out of the workforce because they demanded more than a bowl of noodles for their skills. Jobs requiring those skills were sent to Asia, and replaced by jobs that only a 20 year old stoner living in his parents’ basement could survive on. Elections have consequences, and so do economic policies - ask the former presidents of Tunisia and Egypt. Hopefully the perpetrators of the destruction of our country & way of life don’t get off so easy.
If you honestly believe that suddenly started in January 2009 then you're kidding yourself.
Sounds made up.
If never had any welfare he wouldn’t have been in this situtation. Hand-outs never work and should be declared the source of the deep dark depression that is strangling these people.
Unemployment for 2 years is the ultimate assisted suicide and the ultimate late-term abortion...hell this is a Progressive’s dream.
I pinged you, Scooter, because some idiot/homosexual is badmouthing you at that disgusting site.
As a Christian first, I pity this man’s situation and will pray for him.
Having serious revenue deficits is not only scary as shit, it’s completely demoralizing.
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This Country needs a serious reset. For now, it is still incubating the lifeless drones that will be trained to the cut flesh from our Liberties. We know them as Leftists, Communists, and Socialists.