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Originally Posted by ratbastid
What happens when I can't afford to pay both my mortgage and my insurance payment, which is the situation I'm facing next week? What then, Cynthetiq? You're the wise moral hard worker for whom luck doesn't play any factor. Tell me what I should do. Because I really honestly don't know.
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It probably has something to do with bootstraps, pulling, hard work, and rugged individualism.
I'm really sorry to read about your current situation. That's fucking terrible. I hope things improve quickly.
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Originally Posted by Derwood
I wasn't aware that this was a uniquely American experience. Poor kids in France, Japan and Holland can't go from nothing to something in one generation?
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I'm pretty sure that upward mobility is outlawed in socialist countries.