News Top 10s
Fri., Jan. 4, 2002
Top 10 Reasons Why the Bust Sucks
1. Can't afford to renew magazine subscriptions.
2. And who's going to pay off those credit card bills piling up on the kitchen counter?
3. Alas! The student loans, the car payment, the mortgage ...
4. I grew so accustomed to my lower middle-class lifestyle.
5. Meanwhile, millions never surpassed the federal poverty level, even during the boom. How will across-the-board slashes in social-services budgets affect them?
6. Time to rejoin the barista brigade. Latte, anyone?
7. Look at all of the homeless people downtown.
8. Oh great -- another mass layoff.
9. More competition, fewer good jobs.
10. Going to have to postpone that laser eye surgery indefinitely.
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