Hidden Casualties of US Meltdown

clipped from files.tikkun.org

On October 4, 2008, in the Porter Ranch section of Los
Angeles, Karthik Rajaram, beset by financial troubles,
shot his wife, mother-in-law, and three sons before
turning the gun on himself. In one of his two suicide
notes, Rajaram wrote that he was “broke,” having
incurred massive financial losses in the economic
meltdown

The fallout from the current subprime mortgage debacle
and the economic one that followed has thrown lives
into turmoil across the country

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Associated Press, ABC News, and others have begun to
address the burgeoning body count, especially suicides
attributed to the financial crisis.

Since the beginning of the year, stories of
resistance to eviction, armed self-defense, canicide,
arson, self-inflicted injury, murder, as well as
suicide, especially in response to the foreclosure
crisis, have bubbled up into the local news, although
most reports have gone unnoticed nationally

many more casualties on the home front