Also, if you've had 30 years of solid employment (especially in the ridiculously overpaid auto industry) and haven't saved enough to weather being unemployed, you deserve to be on the street. The whole "making your bed then laying in it" thing.
As people's 401Ks are deflated to something closer to a 201K, the above could be stated for many otherwise thrifty folks.
Which, IMHO, smacks of something, quite honestly. Hard times are hard times, and this retired military type had a hell of an adjustment phase from just 20 years of working for a single employer. Whether that 30-year automotive engineer "deserved" to be on the street is something neither I nor you are qualified to pronounce.
