it costs almost twice as much to buy comics now then it did this time last year This means I can only afford 1 or 2 comics a month :0 :O
I got reduced hours at work because of the recession, which means I've effectively lost two months wages per year, plus even though we're beating our targets there is no chance of a bonus or anything.
My wages mean I get £30 more than living/transport costs per month, so all the entertainment I can buy is 1-2 comics and a weekly cup of tea/biscuit from the SU cafe. Which is really gay when your buds can be out getting pissed/stoned whenever they want because they're middle-class fucks.

f*ck the recession, i can't buy comics anymore ​:​!!!

I used to think this whole recession thing was just people shitting themselves for nothing. As time goes on though I think it's getting a hell of a lot more serious and it's affecting people you wouldn't think it would affect.

I think a lot of it is the war. Our government is just being so incredibly irresponsible with OUR cash and hasn't listened to logic and the will of the citizens. Why the hell do we still need to be imperialist dickfucks and go thousands of miles across the planet (wasting our precious oil) to try and make everyone else just like us? I mean shit. All we need to be concerned with is our own damn problems.

I really hope Obama can knock some sense into Congress and the rest of our shitty government. I'm 17 and I've been trying to get a job for a year. I've applied at 30+ places and got a call about twice. I thought for some reason my applications just must have looked like shit until I realized that all my friends have the same problem. Only the lucky people are able to find work. I also personally know some people (also teenagers) who have been laid off because the places they worked for went out of business.

I've gotta save for college but I have literally no income, so I'm depending solely on my family right now for everything. The job I did have, I got fired from (long story, stupid reason), but even then it only paid $8.50 an hour and I worked an hour a day. I made $916 in the year that I worked there. My family isn't rich, so if I can't find work, things are gonna get very tough in the long run for me.

What. Isn't all money federally insured?

Heh. According to my econ buddies we're technically not in recession yet. We haven't hit 2 consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, or something. Should I slap them in the back of the head?

a recession is technically something that can not be defined until after it is over. we are technically neither inside nor outside of a recession. once we hit the 2 quarter mark you still can't say whether we were in a recession, unless it's over. if it becomes a depression, then we were never in a recession, we were in a depression the whole time.

This recession's been opening up more and more jobs where I work due to the nature of our business.
A lot of businesses are starting to downsize and their phone services are being moved into empty positions within our building, we originally just did Directory Assistance but now we do a bunch of other crap like tech support, we had this synergy thing going on at some stage and now there are about 3-4 more different job types coming in available to about 10 people at each.

Also our government is going into the red to try to boost our economy at the moment, doing government handouts and investing in a bunch of building projects iirc.