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In reply to the discussion: Over Two Million Desperate Americans Are Being Thrown to the WOLVES by Congress RIGHT NOW! [View all]zazen
(2,978 posts)I know I should have known I'd have an invisible disability and other more visible ones that would render me unable to work, and gotten some type of disability insurance when I worked for myself, but I was always so busy working as a single mom and never thought that would happen to me--not at my age. I'd get more organized, next year. And then I got cancer in my 30s, work started suffering, and then the economy tanked.
IT IS TERRIFYING.
One possible silver lining is that, kicking and screaming, many more of us will start living in co-housing, community environments, because we have no safety nets--and perhaps in that is where more activism will come. The relocalization born of desperation rather than an initial vision of suburban permaculture and resilience, but relocalization that leads to more local governance and action just the same.