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People in the midwest are paying 50-75% more for natural gas this winter. Yes, they are maxing out their charge cards to pay for heat. Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the country. For every auto manufacturing job lost, another 5 are lost as well--supply chain jobs to Mabel at the diner. Meanwhile the Enron execs and OJ transferred their real estate to Florida which is immune from the Feds. The banks still keep pumping out the cards at 20-30% interest rates for the commoners. Makes you wonder how and why this country was founded in the first place.

"People in the midwest are paying 50-75% more for natural gas this winter. Yes, they are maxing out their charge cards to pay for heat. Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the country. For every auto manufacturing job lost, another 5 are lost as well--supply chain jobs to Mabel at the diner."

In other words, people who never learned to save a dime are in financial trouble because they always thought (if they thought at all) that someone else would bail them out.

In Arizona, construction jobs are booming, we can't find enough workers, and the boom is projected for the next 20 years.

I recall back when I was in graduate school, working my butt off supporting a family and getting an advanced degree, the whiny automobile workers who had been working for 30 years at twice the salary I expected to make as an engineer - and they had *nothing* to show for it. The same people spent as much money on smoking and drinking over 20 years as the amount that I paid for my first house.

There is a point when the cost of irresponsibility comes home.

Meanwhile the Enron execs and OJ transferred their real estate to Florida which is immune from the Feds.

Are you talking about Florida's "estate by the entirety"? The Supreme Court ruled that those are now subject to federal tax liens.