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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Especially if you make barely enough to cover the bare minimum. I am honestly disgusted by people online and in real life saying that govt employees (and everyone) should have 3-6 mons of expenses saved. That's mighty hard seeing as a lot of people live check to check. If I can barely make it to payday, where is the "savings" money coming from? We don't all have surplus funds at the end of the month to put away. And 6 months of expenses? That's a lot of money when most people don't even have $1000 for an emergency.

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Hon, I made 60k one year and saved 20k of it. I had my expenses down to 2k/mo. Ans yes, this is in the DC area. I was than a. SAHM, DH made 110k/yr (less than thr average federal worker) supporting 3 people and managed to save 25k/yr, not including 401k, so even more.

Unlike many, we know the difference between a want and a need.

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It’s awesome that you were able to do that! So what about people who haven’t - should they starve?[/quote]

So the people who have made sacrifices in their life to save should simply bail out people who didn't?[/quote]
This thread was asking for empathy, not donations. [/quote]

The PP I was responding to talked about people "starving."  I didn't realize that empathy staved off starvation,  or other less sever forms of deprivation.[/quote]

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