Tough times for the rich

What do you mean all you have is Two-Buck Chuck? These are tough times for the rich, too. A recent survey of the affluent shows they’re worried they’ll have enough money for retirement. “If you’re down 50 percent when a million is involved, it’s far more devastating than if you’re starting with $10,000,” said one investment adviser.

If that wasn’t bad enough, have you tried to find a decent bottle of pinot noir at the local food bank lately?

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Lifestyles of the Rich &Shameless: Protestors in Connecticut boarded a bus and went to the luxury homes of AIG executives on Saturday, demonstrating against the bonuses given to company officials and paid for with a federal bailout. “Lord, I wonder what it’s like to live in a house that size,” one bus rider said.

The protestors figured if they couldn’t get their money back, they could at least get their pictures taken with it.

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Yabba-dabba-do! A Missouri family will be able to stay in the cave they’ve turned into a home after they were able to find someone willing to refinance their mortgage.

Unfortunately, the family’s only means of transportation, a four-door brontosaurus hatchback, was towed away by a repo company.

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