How do I go about getting in on this bonanza?

All I see are the headlines, I want the details!

Hey, I got a letter from letter from unemployment! Thanks to Dubya (even though I didn't vote for him) I am getting 7 additional weeks of unemployment = $240 less 10 % for taxes! that's $216 times 7 which equals $1512. My mortgage is $3,402 a month. I cannot sell it.

Those of you who believe we are in tough financial times are working and so are your friends.

Those of you who beleive we are in a recession means you are working, but  someone you know isn't.

Those of you out of work know we are in a depression.

Try being 61 years old, looking for a job. it doesn't matter if you hold 3 degrees. Too old, Walmart is full of greeters.

Try going from $2,000 a week to $216.  Try cashing in your 401k; your stocks; your bonds; your savings; your whole life paid up insurance policy just to stay current. I have been doing this since July 2007. The end is in sight.

I know a 3 degreed engineer layed off from a a missle maker. in his 40's working at Starbucks, hoping they don't close his store.

Keep hope alive, someone has to. I can no longer do it.

I believe that this crisis is manufactured, by the people brought the price of gas up to $5 and then down to $1.47. Who crashed the stock market and then bailed out the worst offenders.  They gave money to banks that were collapsing from bad mortgages. After which Alan Greenspan says I cannot believe that Banks would make such bad loans (what planet is he from - he approved the deregulation believing the banks would not take advantage to make a quick buck) We are in the hands of people who are willing to take advantage of all peoples of the world to make them subservient. A small rulling class, a population that will be decimated. Wars and disease are right around the corner. We are desensitized to everything. Death is shown TV So at 5am on black friday on LongIsland a Walmart worker opened the dors and was trampled to death by the bargain hunters. They weren't killers, they were suburbanites trying to but Christmas presents in tough financial times.

so, nice people can turn into killers because of financial reasons as described above. what will happen when more families reach my position. When people have no savings or any cusion are turned out into the street. How long before they are brought together perhaps by a nefairious group. There is need for change, now.

Beckyanna's plan to save the economy:   5% gas-tax increase for anyone driving a Hummer.  If money is to be piddled away, it may as well be put to good use.