The Washington Post on Sunday had a front page, color-photograph, two-full-pages-in-section-A feature about the financial hardships of a woman struggling to live through the recession on only $300,000 a year.
I’m sure people read the story with both indignation and schadenfreude. I am not without sympathy. If you live in a $2.5 million house that you can’t sell in this market, it can be tough to come up with the $10,000 monthly payments. Still, when one of the hardships is having to let the gardener go, I worry more about how HE is going to make it.
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