No Country for Middle-Aged Men

Tom Hazel worked for three decades in a blazing hellhole to get his pension. But the financial geniuses who took over his plant had other ideas. Full Story »

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3.7
by Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - May. 9, 2009

There are 50,00,000 sad unemployment and underemployment stories in the naked country. This is one of them. Great title, too

I 'm biased here, what with being a laid-off middle aged man myself, unlikely to ever find another job as good as the one I had. Reality these days is that the richies and robber barons get all the money, and when they declare "bankruptcy" they usually end up as rich as they were before, if not richer. But when those of us who Work for a Living declare bankruptcy, as many of us are being forced to do, we end up lucky if we still have someplace indoors to live.

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