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You have run out of severance and are now living on somewhere between $600 - $1400 a month in unemployment, which has been a battle with Republicans to keep extending because those collecting unemployment are "drug-addicts, hobos, lazy, good for nothing, unincentivized, parasites." First to go was the second car, which is understandable it a convenience, but you're not going anywhere on a daily basis so you can share one car. Important to sell if you aren't upside/down in the car, or work with your lender if you are. Call them and you may be surprised how helpful they can be. You're 59 years old... you do not have a college diploma, you have specialized for 40 years in being a good employee with a great work ethic, flexible multi-tasker, energetic team leader and new project coordinator. When you had that late Friday afternoon meeting, you were told you were making too much money for the position. They were restructuring and might even out-source your job. When does depression turn to despair? Or is it despair first and then depression... The one thing you know for sure is that you were three years away from retirement and you are now a few months away from living under a bridge and looking for a really sturdy box! Dear GOP and Democratic leaders, Unemployed people are your constituents even though we can't afford to contribute to your re-election campaigns. We are not a blight on society like the lepers that were once quarantined in leper colonies. We are your brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, cousins, uncles, aunts, grandchildren, neighbors, friends, the worker who once stood on a production line or sat in the next cubicle from someone you know. We are not a pawn in a game of GOP holding Democratic legislation hostage! We are not a pawn in the balance the budget debate! We are not the reason the economy was driven off the cliff! We are the back-bone of America... we are the middle-class! IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." Actions have consequences... inaction has consequences... the consent of the governed is required to serve... voting is the 'Right of the People to alter or to abolish".