An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the chest as authorities arrive to evict her from the modest house she called home for 38 years.
In Massachusetts, a housewife who had hidden her family's mounting financial crisis from her husband sends a note to the mortgage company warning: "By the time you foreclose on my house, I'll be dead."
Then Carlene Balderrama shot herself to death, leaving an insurance policy and a suicide note on a table.
Across the country, authorities are becoming concerned that the nation's financial woes could turn increasingly violent, and they are urging people to get help. In some places, mental-health hot lines are jammed, counseling services are in high demand and domestic-violence shelters are full.
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2 comments:
I was looking over this story on CNN. The mortgage crisis has indeed become ugly, and I think one husband had it right when he said:
"There's gotta be some help out there for people that are hurting, (something better) than to see somebody lose a life over a stupid house."
What do you think? I'm going to post this story to
http://www.ameritocracy.com/statements/907#amcy--DG9510
Come discuss it with us!
Nope - only help out there for the rich...not the working folks who just got robbed by the gov't.
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