“Brother, Can You Spare a Six?” Six Words on the Financial Crisis
Monday, April 26th, 2010
A day late and a penny short.
So we’re always excited when six words finds a way into the public radio world. Our friends over at NPR’s EconomyStory.org cover the world of money and finance from a point of view that’s always connected to personal stories, helping this ever-complicated topic connect to the real world. Editors there have had a six fix lately, asking for Six-Word Memoirs about how to cope in the current climate. They recently asked for “Six Words on Career in Crisis,” and received responses ranging from the despondent (”On food stamps, Americorps, Future M.D.”), ironic (”Career long in tooth, got yanked.”) and optimistic (”Lost two jobs gained an LLC.”).
SMITH joins Economystory.org in a new challenge: What’s your Six-Word Memoir on the financial crisis? Feel free to leave your six words in the comments area below, or head on over the EconomyStory. We’ll give a copy of our latest book, It All Changed in An Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure.
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Too big to care we failed
Democrats paid banks, prostituting all customers.
Economy crashed; everyone blamed each other.
Exchanged credit cards for library card
Emptiness in my wallet never fills.
Boyfriends better for wallet than husbands.
Foreclosure due to ex, not economy.
Lost my job, got better one.
Live simpler. Buy less material crap.
Unemployed. Son in college. Frugal living.
Last years wardrobe is just fine.
Can’t find job. Back to school.
Goodbye, economy. Hello, credit card debt.
Income down. Chin up. Future uncertain.
Goldman was pandering. They didn’t listen.
It’s all about the money. Not.
Buying a camper, not a house!
If you’re broke, don’t have kids.
I just pretend every-thing’s all right.
What can we do except wait?
Mr. President, take down this WALL
street!
Owe big, but still buy Starbucks.
Being broke means breakfast for dinner.