Securing Life: A Costly Matter
These are hard times. People are suffering because of the decisions and actions of others. I’m certain there are people reading this right now whose lives have been altered in some way because of our economic situation. I’m also pretty sure that every one of us has a sense of our future that we didn’t have a couple years ago, a future that we did not anticipate let alone plan for. Economic stress and suffering can be measured. We learn something about the extent of such stress and suffering when we look at the numbers. We feel the impact of the weight of those numbers when our own circumstances are changed because we are now the ones who have lost a job or health care insurance or slipped into home foreclosure. Our stress is increased when we discover that our retirement savings has lost 30% or more of its value. Maybe you yourself have not experienced the shock of one or another of these circumstances, but I’m sure you know someone who has, and that undoubtedly has given you pause