the depression begins?

[BDG]

I have friends here in the states that have been unemployed for 3-4 years at this point. These were not laborers or layabouts, they were professionals; engineers, computer anaylists, IT specialists, professors. They are no longer even included in the unemployment count!

They were true middle class people, now living on welfare and free food programs.

Then these are the people we must lose. Their role and their mindset has come to a dead end. If they have not had the gumption do do something, to change who they are, what they are, even lie to change themselves into someone who would get work - if they are the kind of person so say "no, I am not spreading tarmac on the roads, I am a professor" or "I am not pushing a brush on a factory floor, I am a computer analyst" then these people cannot adapt and we know what happens to those that cannot adapt.

Far to many these days cannot adapt. Should we see any kind of thing that should cause such upset that people would have to adapt to, I do not think we would have to do much to out survive great numbers of them, for many, many people will give up and die.