Ted Rall for February 27, 2013
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Only true some of the time, Howie. Who chooses to get sick? Who chooses to get “downsized”? Who chooses to have the company they work for fold? It’s not always easy to get back to work at the pay you may have had before, and the process can lead to maxing out credit cards or using up savings to get by. Add bankruptcy to the mix and it gets worse. After a bone marrow transplant left us with over $500k in medical bills, the bankruptcy lowered our credit score so much that I couldn’t work an engineering job in this country for almost a decade, and even retail employers couldn’t promote me past asst. manager without having to fire me after the credit check. So which choice did I make that was wrong? College education? Engineering job? I guess I should have divorced my wife as soon as she got sick.You, sir, are one sorry excuse for a human being if you believe your post.