Depression? How depressing!

I can only remember the boom days so it shakes me to the core to hear how the US's economic crisis is deepening.  And it's not the Fat Cats that are getting thinner, but folks who were treading a financial tight rope anyway.  The latest pinch -- parting many homeowners from their homes and many grafters from their jobs -- means that putting food on the table is becoming a challenge for increasing numbers.  The Independent reports that, in the fiscal year starting October, 28 million people in the US will be using government food stamps to buy their groceries, the most since the 60s.  There has been a huge increase in the application for food stamps across 40 states of the richest country on earth.  So how does this bode for us in Blighty?  No one knows for sure... On the upside, if anyone needs a motive to beat the work blues this could be it.  As long as we have a job, we should be galloping to work with joy, banking our pay cheques with glee and thanking our lucky stars we haven't got anything to be too depressed about (yet).