[quote=EconProf]The safe jobs are, generally speaking, in government. All levels, state, local, federal, military, are virtually immune to the tribulations the private sector employees are about to go through. During the Great Depression, government employees were the lucky ones.
Let’s not hear any more whining by public employee unions about their relative misfortune.[/quote]
Did you not hear about the U.S. Postal Service plan to lay off 40,000 people?
I have a feeling that this is going to get really bad. If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll experience something like the Great Depression of 1929 as opposed to the Panic of 1873.
