When I woke up the other morning, I didnt think much about anything. It was just a usual routine, I woke up, got ready for school and then headed straight to work after class. It was when I got to work that someone asked me "did you hear the american stock market dropped 400 points today?" I wasn't really sure what that meant but then the person mentioned something about a possible recession, and thats what got me thinking. How would it affect me if merica went into recession? I am a full-time college student and I work full-time as well.. Would I lose my job? Would I be able to pay my bills? Or would it hit me minimally? What if it had a worse impact on my mom, who is single and takes care of four of my five brothers and sisters? Of course, the stock market turned out to be a hot topic throughout the day. Eventually, one customer came in and we talked and he informed me that the stock market had recovered 360 of the 400 points we had fallen... It was a slight relief, but it goes to show how fast things are capable of changing, how one minute you can be prospering with hardly a worry, and the next your whole country is scraping and holding onto every penny-even in America. It further goes to show how much we, as Americans, truly take for granted.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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