The article comes with this advice. Do not contemplate any type of personal violence if you are experiencing pain as a result of this recession. The most valuable thing, beyond compare, is life.
TomDispatch.com: The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis
...in Northampton, Pennsylvania, a 49-year-old woman reportedly robbed a bank and, just 18 minutes later, "arrived at a check-cashing business and arranged for several money orders -- totaling $1,090 -- to pay a portion of the rent she owed her landlord." According to court papers, a "confidential informant" told police the woman had confided that "she was going to rob the bank to satisfy about $1,800 in back rent." The police reported that she was "in the process of being evicted."
2 comments:
Tragic! Life is too precious to waste. Part of the problem in this society is we are taught we are only what we do. If your laid off your the one that is blamed no matter whether the lay off was of your own doing or not. In any event if you've been living from paycheck to paycheck as are many your basically screwed. Since Reagan the social safety net has been systematically shredded and now there is hell to be paid.
Yes living paycheck to paycheck is the problem. Sometimes its unavoidable. Also society works well right now for the two paycheck professional family with portable and desirable jobs. If you are not in that category like a single mom in a weaker paying job like Lowes employee, you are economically stressed and probably not covering expenses. When you add to that the societal pressure of identifying with your money as being the sole value of your being, you are facing problems. But as you say, if we only identify with what we do, then that might be wrong. We need to value our life.
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