[annyokie]

How can you have that kind of income, one child, a modest home and no capital? It sounds to me that they were living too large and got their *sses snapped like the auto workers in Detroit, or the farmers in Nebraska.

I never made that much money in my life and will never see bankruptcy or foreclosure. It's called financial planning and weather watching with the economic shifts of the past 20 years.

[Poohbah]

But it's SO much easier to blame the foreign devils for your woes!

[Alberta's Child]

In the case of the Salter family, they had both spouses working jobs related to the airline industry. That's a big problem in a lot of smaller cities in the U.S. that are dominated by one industry.

[RAT Patrol]

AMEN to your post #10.

[Archangelsk]

How can you have that kind of income, one child, a modest home and no capital? It sounds to me that they were living too large and got their *sses snapped like the auto workers in Detroit, or the farmers in Nebraska.

I never made that much money in my life and will never see bankruptcy or foreclosure. It's called financial planning and weather watching with the economic shifts of the past 20 years.

Congratulations, and I mean that, you're in the minority. There are probably a lot of lurkers looking at this thread who empathize with the Salter's plight right now, but that doesn't change the original point of me posting this article: if the midwest, a solid, Republican, conservative base, is mired in layoffs and a declining economy it will bolt and vote elsewhere.

We share much in common with these folks and, as I said up top, the President and Rove neglects them at their own risk.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You are smiling now, but nobody is beyond God's sovereign control of affairs, not even you. Never go bankrupt? You could be one cell's genetic mutation away from that possibility.