America's Financial Meltdown: How has it affected your life?

Originally Posted by Max Biggs

Almost all of our benefits have been cut...Also, they cut four hours off of all part-timers' schedules, so I'm bringing home less money per week.

Ouch, sorry to hear that. For me, since I'm government, and they're always a half year or more behind the hire/fire cycle, my worries aren't so much for the present as to what's coming around the summer. Thankfully, our administration got a nice cash injection with the stimulus, and I'm in a program with guaranteed life, but I could still see them carving at those around me, which would make for low morale on the whole. I'm hoping we ride it out, and emerge strong, but no guarantees, as we've traditionally been viewed as somewhat expendable compared to something like the DoE.

Jam it back in, in the dark.