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To: epicure who wrote (26770)	8/18/2006 10:42:52 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543022

That blogger wasn't really talking about fear of economic reversals per se. She was in a drama queen frenzy over the mere thought of having to take a boring job. Folks who lived during the depression were willing to take any job in order to survive and were glad to get the work. My dad and my mother-in-law were products of the depression and I'm well aware of the mindset it left with many people. It was not a mindset shared by that blogger. She seemed to be saying that she'd rather be on welfare than "trapped" in a boring job. She saw welfare as an escape route when it really shouldn't be anything more than a safety net. The two are not the same, imo.