Do you feel richer or poorer than you did five years ago? Why?

In my job, I'll retire with lifetime private health, dental, and vision benefits. I've already qualified for this benefit. 2012 has nothing to do with owning our home or not.

The house is worth much, much more than we paid for it and that is much more than we owe now. If your vision of hyperinflation comes true we'll be sitting very pretty and our mortgage payment will be less than the cost of a loaf of bread. The worst case scenario is that we have to sell this house and move to a much cheaper area.

I have every right to indulge myself. Both I and my husband work very hard, we have met our responsibilities to our parents, our children, our employers, and ourselves. We live responsibly and well below our means.

Life is to be lived every day and we are enjoying ourselves. We are very lucky to have found such a true, loving relationship later in life. We intend to grow old together and loving every second of it.

I know you're very afraid of the future but I'm not. If the entire economy fails, we'll still be better off than most and no worse off than everyone else. -layyla- 58 months ago.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.