One reader - who we will call "Kitty" - has volunteered her to share her story, recounting the chain of events that has thrust her family from the comfort of middle-class security to the brink of bankruptcy and foreclosure in the span of about one year.
"Kitty's" story demonstrates the very precarious nature of America's middle class, especially in the face of a contracting economy, increased competition from overseas, and a government determined to drive it to into extinction.
Read 'Kitty's" story and be warned that this could easily happen to any of us, and sooner than we could ever imagine.