OOohh! look a nail....MikeCR....bet you can't hit it directly on the head....oh, it appears you can!
9 pages of the economics of it....I think, think that message is through to anyone that hadn't already got it!
and as I think has potentially been missed - I'm far from worst hit here, in that I've got no debt to pay for my training and have a good career to fall back on, but I AM in contact with people in a worse situation on a daily basis - and THEY are fed up with the constant doom and gloom....it's not that anyone needs telling.
GSB, good thought, but personally I would think it should be the other way around....move the economics to a thread entitled "why the downturn happened" and leave this one to it's original purpose?