I'm too close to this topic to be a fair judge. I'm 57. I was surplussed 2 years ago, and my income is down to 20% of what it was before I was laid off. My wife, same age, has now applied fruitlessly for over 300 jobs. I get V.A. healthcare. She gets a crappy health insurance policy for a crazy-high price. Really, the question for those of us in our 50s and 60s who are running through our savings is when we should start going 2nd Amendment on America's richest greedheads and the Republicans who constantly side with nasty exploiters against America. I expect some of the blue-collar crowd in the midwest will start the blood payback long before I get to the "nothing to lose" level, but there's plenty of misery here in Florida, and we have some of the nastiest, most traitorous lican (butt or repub, same thing) politicians in the country, so we'll see. We Americans need to do *something* to take our country back, anyway. That's for sure.