[lbo-talk] The sharp, sudden decline of America's middle class

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Fri Jun 29 04:30:32 PDT 2012


god does that elicit traumatizing flashbacks of the terror of being "in crisis", trying to get help, and being told that, with $5 in the bank, a car worth $3000, a kid and an apartment, you are eligible for nothing. you can go stand in line for five hours and see if someone might be able to scrape together a loan from some emergency fund. you can go try to food banks but they are all 10 miles away at the other end of the county and you don't have bus fare or gas money to go. or go fill out a 3 ring binder full of applications and a long as some long ass occupational safety tests for jobs at a temp job service so you can wash dishes somewhere -- never quite sure if getting questions right about what and what isn't safe or hazardous on the job will disqualify you or not.

At 12:17 AM 6/29/2012, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-sharp-sudden-decline-of-americas-middle-class-20120622
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