80 percent of U.S. adults face near-poverty, unemployment, survey finds

[Warpy]

27. I was poor due to health issues

especially since no one would insure me and the only way to keep my hours down was to work per diem with no bennies--but no surprise 12 hour night shifts, either.

I have to say I'm not afraid of it, either. My parents went through the Great Depression as teenagers and my mother was deathly afraid of poverty. I don't enjoy poverty, anyone who says they do is either lying or psychotic. However, I know how to hunker down and stretch a dollar until it's in tatters.

The people who seem to have lived charmed lives will do well to fear it since it is going to put them onto a steep and very unpleasant learning curve.

Me? I've already dealt with it, it would be like a freeloading relative moving in because he has nowhere else to go. I know him too well to think it will end well and I know he's hell to live with, but sometimes that's the best you can do in this life.