Reply #9: It's when you or some people you work with [View All]

Lose your jobs, or get your hours cut, or lose benefits, or have to pay higher co-pays. And, when you think you might have to get a second job to make ends meet, at least under the big dog you could get that extra job. In fact, back then in my city, they were paying signing bonuses to get people to take fast food jobs. Now you might think you better get an extra job, but you can't because all the crappy jobs are taken by all the people who lost their regular jobs. Then you decide to have a garage sale since you can't get a second job and you try to sell all your good stuff that you really don't want to get rid of, but you need the cash for utility bills and you can't sell anything at your garage sale because no one can afford to buy anything no matter how cheap. And I mean to tell you we are in a recession and have been since 2001.