My story can be found on page 137 of 'How to Destroy the Middle Class' playbook ....

[truedelphi]

62. Sorry that such a crappy thing happened to you.

What I was told when I first recounted a similar story is the following:
A) I made it up

B) I should have put aside even more money, like this or that DU'er stated that they had done, so that a double, triple or quadruple whammy would have left my household unscathed.

It's all up to us, don't you know. Pull ourselves up by the bootstraps like real Americans.

Oh and don't bother blaming anyone in Congress with a D after their names, either. As they are angels and if you blame them, well, you know, racism. And you know, blaming them indicates you don't understand understand how the Republicans have tormented them, stonewalled them, etc. (Although Democrats held the House and the Senate with a majority from Jan 2007 to Jan 2011, and what my household got in return was a huge rate of increase in postal rates for our small company.)

Your story is indeed a tale of how "the middle class is being systematically destroyed in this country. " But it does take both parties to undertake that destruction, and a whole lot of loyalists to keep the two parties afloat.