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Where’s the bottom?

January 8, 2009 - 4:04 pm - by Richard Fernandez
James
2009-01-08 21:21:24

I suspect that hard times don’t develop character so much as reveal it. If Social Security gets cut, pension funds go bust, and so on–will most of us figure out how to make do, or try to find someone to blame?
When I think about that question, I remember a bumper-sticker I saw some years back: “Prosperity is my birthright.” Then I worry.