I've been dropping back from blogging for awhile, because I'm up to my eyeballs in a major family crisis. But a story I heard today on the radio just blew my mind.
Read these links:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
There are many others.
The synopsis is that there is a married couple, the Schmuhls, who live in Sterling, Virginia, right outside Washington, D.C. The husband, Andrew Schmuhl, is reported to be a former U.S. Army JAG officer (army lawyer) who was discharged more than two years ago and has been unable to find another job. He is also reported to be a "military intelligence officer," but that must be wrong, since JAGs aren't intelligence officers.
His wife is Alecia Schmuhl, a dual national of the United States and Hungary. She was working for a quite prominent large law firm in Arlington, Virginia. Just a few days ago she got fired for poor performance. Probably this put the couple in the position of not being able to afford their mortgage. But whatever--get a job.