[78-L] A "heads up" for our Canuck contingent...!

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> Unlike 99.9% of GTA suburbanites...I'm POOR...and was even freakin'
> POORER before I finally turned 65 and could collect pension money...!

Joining the club, thanks to the CD business having gone totally down the dumper.
> 
> It will be interesting to watch (for me, anyway...?!) the behaviours of the
> XXI-Jahrhundert "nouveau riche" as the next Great Depression strikes, and
> spending a couple hundred on "a dinner out" is suddenly replaced by
> trying to scratch up a couple hundred to make the month's mortgage
> payment and pay at least PART of the utility bills...?!

Hey..that's already happening around here.
> 
> My advice? Find an elderly relative who lived through the "Great
> Depression," and get his/her/its advice on how to survive...?!?!

Well, my father once said to my mother "You didn't know there was a depression 
till you saw it in a Dick Powell movie". Great line.

dl
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