| The economic downturn in America and the rest of | | | | them in the future. Sure they needed them when they |
| the world was not reported by media outlets, instead, | | | | were laid off, but the big companies knew that they |
| they created their own reality by reporting that the | | | | could, and should, shrink their work force in the same |
| economy was sliding downhill, and that at the end of it | | | | way as they had reduced their overseas and |
| all, the whole world's economy would be in shambles. | | | | domestic orders for goods. |
| As soon as the media started to pick up the mantra | | | | As companies around the world laid off workers, the |
| of doom and gloom in world economics, the leaders | | | | economic disaster that the media had been reporting |
| and managers of the world's largest businesses | | | | because a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since the companies |
| started looking for ways to save money in the lean | | | | that produced consumer goods, had laid off their |
| times ahead. This "Tightening the Belt Mentality" is | | | | workers, the workers didn't have any money to spend |
| what really created the havoc seen around the world, | | | | on goods and services that they would have bought if |
| as economy after economy started to shut down | | | | they still had their jobs. As production workers were |
| because of lack of orders for their goods. | | | | laid off, service workers followed due to a lack of |
| As the order for goods dried up, companies in second | | | | disposable income by the buying public. |
| and third world countries had to lay off workers | | | | When you look at the history of this economic mess, |
| because of the lack of work. As the work orders | | | | and how it looked like it was orchestrated by the |
| dried up from the United States, UK and rest of the | | | | media, it makes you wonder who made all the money |
| European Union, these workers quit buying products in | | | | when the price of gas dropped by $2.50 per gallon. It |
| their own countries, and the rest of the world watched | | | | might be interesting to see who sold off all their shares |
| as the economic disaster that the media had been | | | | before the stock market collapsed, and who bought |
| reporting, started to take place. | | | | them all back when it bottomed out. Sure it'd be hard |
| As companies in the industrialized nation of the earth | | | | to prove, but it would definitely be interesting to see |
| quit sending out orders for goods from their second | | | | who made all the "LOST" money in this "Economic |
| and third world neighbors, they also started to lay off | | | | Collapse". |
| workers of their own, because they wouldn't need | | | | |