Nope, don't feel bad for them. They were leading an incredibly excessive lifestyle that they couldn't afford. Why does anyone NEED a $3 million mansion?

They could've lived extremely comfortably in a house 1/3 of that size and been just fine. It was vanity and greed that lead to this stumble in the road, and it's a lesson that a lot of Americans are learning who lived waaaaaay beyond their means during the good years with no thought for the future.

Lisa is the grasshopper, and I am the ant. Sure I didn't get to play in a mansion all through the nice seasons, but now that the winter's here, I'm nice and cozy holed up in my modest house. Grasshopper. Ant. It's a very old fable that's played out in modern real-life all the time.

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