I feel bad for no one. I have my own problems to worry about.

I work around many, many people who live lavish lives and although I don't wish ill will on anyone... Here's my answer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QPr_EjPjvA It's the chemical burn scene from Fight Club. It goes like this: TYLER Human sacrifices were the ones made above the hill above this river. Bodies burned, water seeped into the wood and ashes to make lye. This is lye. The crucial ingredient. Once it mixed with the melted fat of the bodies, a big white soapy discharge crept into the river. May I see your hand please? (Kisses Jack's Hand). JACK What is this? TYLER THIS, is a chemical burn. JACK Aaaah! TYLER It will hurt more than you've ever been burned, and you will have a scar. JACK What're you doing! (voiceover) Guided meditation worked for cancer, it can work for this. TYLER Stay with the pain, don't shut this out. JACK OGH GOD! TYLER Look at your hand! The first soap was made from the ashes of heroes. Like the first monkeys shot into space. Without pain - without sacrifice - we would have nothing! JACK (Voiceover) I tried not to think of the words "searing" or "flesh". TYLER Stop it! This is your pain! This is your burning hand! It's right here! JACK I'm going to my cave! I'm going to my cave and I'm going to find my power animal! TYLER Nooo! Don't deal with it the way those dead people do! C'mon! JACK I get the point! Okay, please! TYLER What you're feeling is premature enlightenment. Jack drifts off in mental imagery of he and Marla. He's awakened by a smack to the face from Tyler. TYLER This is the greatest moment of your life, man! And you're off somewhere missing it! JACK I am not! TYLER Shut up! Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God? Tyler smacks jack again. Listen to me. You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he HATES you. This is not the worst thing that can happen. JACK It isn't!?! TYLER We don't need him. JACK We don't! I agree! Fuck damnation man. Fuck redemption. We're God's unwanted children, so be it! JACK OKAYOKAY! TYLER Listen! You can run water over your hand and make it worse or - look at me! Or you can use vinegar to neutralize the burn. JACK PLEASELETMEHAVEIT! PLEASE! TYLER First, you have to give up. First you have to know, not fear, know that some day you're gonna die. JACK YOU DON'T KNOW HOW THIS FEELS! Tyler shows jack his own chemical burn scar. TYLER It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. Tyler pops the cap on a bottle of vinegar and pours it over Jack's wound. Jack falls to the floor, gripping his burned hand. TYLER Congratulations. You're one step closer to hitting bottom.

You are kidding, right? Did those rich people EVER feel sorry for you and me and the other 99% of the population that was eating their shit and dying?

Anybody who falls because of this credit crunch gets my sympathy .It will hit the rich much harder than the poor because they have so much further to fall, however it will give them a taste of how the rest of us live........a lesson learned. :o)

its sad to hear, but i have my own problems. in a way its kind of a reality check for those REALLY RICH people who used to take a vacation every month, they're less sadidy now!!! lol

I don't feel bad...you'd think they would have made smarter investment decisions everyone knows you "don't put all your eggs in one basket" As well as I'm sure they can regain some of their "monetary status" alot quicker than the "average " person they seem to have the knack of pulling themselves out of these things with little to remember of the lesson learned.

I have not met one yet but I am certain that there are a few and there shall be many more. This Depression is just starting. As far as how much sympathy... I shall show exactly as much sympathy to them as they did to the poor before they joined the ranks of the poor. I shall wish those who showed kindness or even mindfulness to the poor all the best and not give the ones who were unkind or unmindful of another's plight another thought. I shall wish the older children and spouses of the unkind ones well unless they, too, spat on the poor. I shall wish all the younger children well.

just remember that theres a rich person somewhere signing your paychecks.

I don't know why a rich person would put all of their money in stocks. If they didn't leave enough in savings to at least not go broke, it's hard to feel sorry.

Yes for people who were humble and kind even after being rich bt i dont feel sorry for proud and arrogant people!

It would depend on how that person was (helping,caring, humble, etc) towards others. I know a few rich people who are really generous and I know a few who are total A-holes. My boss lost 8M in the last recession because of his greediness (he didn't want to sell property for less than market value) and lost all but his tiny office building. He is really generous with us though. I am amazed at how he helps his employees.

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For the people who accumulated wealth through hard work and dogged determination there is no need. Regardless of their losses it is their nature to overcome, to thrive, to work hard and earn and they will continue to do so. Such a person is unlikely to become homeless. For those who inherited wealth and do not have such a work ethic I do not feel sympathy. It is up to them to succeed for fail. Such a person could possibly become homeless, but I have never met one. For those who have never tried to educate themselves, work hard, or rely on themselves to succeed I feel no sympathy. No matter what the government takes from others and gives to them they will never succeed. These are the most likely to become homeless, and I have met many. Only for those who have worked hard, relied on themselves, and tried their best to succeed but have been hurt by circumstance, illness, or injury not of their own doing to I feel sympathy. For these folks I have no objection to governement assistance. These are people who can become homeless, and I have met some.

I have never met any. For some I feel sorry. For some I don't.

Well, it actually depends. I knew a few people who worked through Enron. They had a choice of investing with so-so stocks or the home company who was offerign some MAJOR returns. BUT you couldn't sell till retirment. That sucked for a lot of those hard workers to saw $400,000 worth of 15-25 years of hard work turn into $50. I feel less sorry for the guy who saw his $1Million portfolio turn into $60K..I wish I had 60K

Only when they weren't malicious and didn't deserve it. I knew a guy that invested in futures and had a decent independent R&D business going. He invested in Enron stock, and had to file for Chapter 11 about 6 months later. Everything was impounded and he lost some court thing. Now he guards my dad's slash pine farm, keeping poachers and illegal virgin forest loggers off his property for food money and a small trailer in the back. Him, I feel for. Still, that's the way things work - there's always a hierarchy, no matter what, and the higher up the ladder, the more pressure there is to weed the weak out. It's the way of things, and if they play the game and lose, they have only themselves to blame. If I felt sorry for everyone that something 'unjust' happened to, I'd drown in my own tears.