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Originally posted by Gattigap
What I find baffling is your dogged insistence that people might just "think" they're living paycheck to paycheck, as though they're all really simply mistaken. Upon a job loss or similar mishap, are they really going to uncover that 6 months of savings under the mattress?
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Well, this is a politics board, for one, and, for another, it was my impression that the statement was put forth in a manner designed to characterize the current state of the economy - in other words, my perception was that a partisan point was being asserted.
If Wonk was simply saying, we don't save enough, and we never have saved enough, well, then, . . .
