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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

 Dear Abby,

 My husband has a long record of money problems.  He runs up huge credit
card bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he shouts
at me, saying I am stealing his money.  He says pay the minimum and let our
kids worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep up with the
interest.  Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors
that most of them no longer speak to us.  The few that do are an odd bunch,
to whom he has been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills
even more.  Also, he has gotten religious in a big way, although I don't
quite understand it.  One week he hangs out with Catholics and the next with
people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ.  And now he has been going to
the gym an awful lot and is into wearing uniforms and cowboy outfits, and I
hate to think what that means. Finally, the last straw:  He's demanding that
before anyone can be in the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty
oath.  It's just so horribly creepy!

 Can you help?
 Signed, Lost in DC

 Dear Lost,

Stop whining, Laura.  You can divorce the jerk any time you want.  The rest
of us are stuck with him for four more years!
----- Original Message -----
From: tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>

> The Boston Globe <http://www.boston.com/news/globe/>
> ROBERT KUTTNER
>
>
>   Oh yes, it can happen here
>
> By Robert Kuttner  |  January 26, 2005
>
> file://''How did you go bankrupt?"
> ''Two Ways. Gradually, and then suddenly."//
> Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
>
> COUNTRIES GO broke gradually, by borrowing so much money that creditors
> lose confidence in their ability to pay the debt back. Then, they go
> broke suddenly as creditors stop lending.