{"id":1392,"date":"2008-12-18T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/no-this-is-not-the-lazy-way-out-sending-you-to-another-blog-ronni-bennett-is-a-highly-visible-highly-regarded-elder-blogg\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T12:54:14","slug":"no-this-is-not-the-lazy-way-out-sending-you-to-another-blog-ronni-bennett-is-a-highly-visible-highly-regarded-elder-blogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/no-this-is-not-the-lazy-way-out-sending-you-to-another-blog-ronni-bennett-is-a-highly-visible-highly-regarded-elder-blogg\/","title":{"rendered":"Money, Madoff, Seniors and Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ROnnie<\/a>
\nNO this is not the lazy way out – sending you to another blog.  Ronni Bennett <\/a>is a highly visible, highly regarded "elder blogger<\/a>" and has formed a large, vital community around her blog Time Goes By<\/a>.  A retired CBS News producer, she moved from Manhattan to Maine for a more affordable standard of living and she's got her fingers on many pulses.  Today, she writes about the already tragic costs of the economic crisis for "the rest of us" <\/a>– those not losing fortunes because of Bernard Madoff but just losing ground.<\/p>\n

I think the Madoff story is worth the attention it's getting,  not just or even mainly because of the damage it did to high-end investors but because someone of such stature (Head of NASDAQ) would – and could- do such things – and that he got away with it for so long.  It's institutionally mind-blowing.  As I wandered the web reading stories for this post, I discovered more reasons, too.  It did disproportionate damage to Jews and Jewish charities<\/a> – and Madoff was Jewish.  Another "how could he?"  Non-profits around the world, literally, are devastated; an example of the non-profit chaos generated by Mr. Madoff's activity.  <\/p>\n

Even so, Ronni's point about the focus on the big stuff<\/a> when there are so many stories, especially at this time of year, is worth taking a look at.  She's right about that; we need to see more profiles of those people who "work hard and play by the rules" and are struggling to figure out how to survive.  They're our neighbors – and, in many cases, they're us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NO this is not the lazy way out – sending you to another blog.  Ronni Bennett is a highly visible, highly regarded "elder blogger" and has formed a large, vital community around her blog Time Goes By.  A retired CBS News producer, she moved from Manhattan to Maine for a more affordable standard of living … Continue reading Money, Madoff, Seniors and Struggles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,27,7,9],"tags":[192,951,596,947,220,946,948,151,952,950,949],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-baby-boom","category-current-affairs","category-life","category-politics","tag-aging-2","tag-economic-crisis","tag-economy","tag-fraud","tag-jewish","tag-madoff","tag-non-profits","tag-poverty","tag-recession","tag-ronni-bennett","tag-time-goes-by"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-ms","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}