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Message: <blockquote data-quote="okiebryan" data-source="post: 1935519" data-attributes="member: 24457">For a time after a job layoff, I was poor.  I sold everything I had that had payments, sold all of my guns, moved in to the only house I could afford to rent, and lived off $1104 a month in unemployment and $112 in food stamps while supporting a teenage son.  I drove my motorcycle everywhere I had to go because I couldn't afford gas ($4.20/gal) for my truck.  No matter the weather.  I'm talking Ramen soup poor.I was still wealthier than the average resident in 75% of the countries in the world.  And my situation was temporary.</blockquote>