tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post4806035852342126039..comments2023-11-02T09:53:09.569-04:00Comments on Groves U.S. History Blog: Blog #8 - Economic Meltdown - How would you respond...?Geoff Wickershamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07430848929082686290noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-47606452043292938262009-04-21T07:49:00.000-04:002009-04-21T07:49:00.000-04:002. Businesses are closing their doors-
My...2. Businesses are closing their doors- <br /><br /><br /> My family and I have shopped at Trader Joe’s, Barnes and Noble, and Tower Records a lot. They have products that can be hard to find in any other store of their specific genre. Now that they are going out of business, we are forced to shop online for records, CD’s, and books that would normally be stocked at their stores, but now the internet is our only option. Trader Joe’s is a place where our family shops at to buy many products such as jams, cookies, and things of that nature. Now that Trader Joe’s is gone, we are going to have to shop at stores where it is a more expensive just because of the products “brand” or “company”. Which becomes a hassle. <br /> <br /><br /><br />4. The Stock Market has lost almost 45% of its value since the summer of ’08- <br /><br /><br /> My family and I also have a lot of money invested in the Stock Market in companies such as General Electric (GE), General Motors (GM), and Apple (AAPL). Apple for example, was at 201.00 a stock in the summer of ’08. A month ago, it was at 99.79 a stock. Our stock went down by 50% in a half of a year. Along with hurting the consumers, it really hurt the people’s wallets who had invested in AAPL.<br /><br />c webAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-10982769205332722412009-03-31T07:56:00.000-04:002009-03-31T07:56:00.000-04:00In today’s economy I feel that it is very importan...In today’s economy I feel that it is very important that every person who is able to work should be employed. I think that during these times it is harder for the ones who are not employed because they have families to feed and bills to pay. This economic situation is very important and should be handled as soon as possible. It is important that we as the people come together and try to brain storm on the many different things we can do to keep unemployed families in good conditions. It should also be known that when people are losing their jobs the crime rate is getting higher, because people are going out robbing and killing so that they can feed there families.<BR/>Another issue would be the foreclosure with the homes. Lots and lots of people are being thrown out of there houses because the state are not able to pay for the land that the people are living on. Families are left homeless due to this economic issue. Many families are put in shelters or either they are staying with family members which leads to over crowding. This is a very unhealthy and unorganized situation to be in and as people we should come together and try to fix the situation. And give these people who had homes an opportunity to have that back once again.<BR/><BR/>china wells 3rd hourAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-80804437914721027542009-03-30T21:37:00.000-04:002009-03-30T21:37:00.000-04:00(Whoops, forgot you needed this from me, I know it...(Whoops, forgot you needed this from me, I know it's been a couple days since you asked.)<BR/>My college funds have already taken a huge hit. They were not big to begin with, but now it looks like I’ll be definitely working my way through college. I am not hugely concerned with this, but if my family loses our home, I don’t know what we’ll do. We don’t make enough money get another house in the area, so we’d probably end up moving away. If I wanted to go to Harvard, I definitely wouldn’t be able to, and I’d end up lowering my sights to an in-state school. I know my mom has told me she won’t be retiring for a while, because she is going to try and pay for as much schooling as she can for us. Other than that, we’ll have to get by on student loans. If I lived in Pontiac or Detroit, I would be much less encouraged to go to college, and if I did go, my high school would be regarded as lower than other suburban ones, making it hard to get into a good college. I’ve watched my neighbors try to sell their homes, and fail, there’s simply nobody that wants to buy them, or can afford to. I think if we tried to sell my house, we’d run into the same problem.Jake Prosyniuk 3rd Hournoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-1912156265317363962009-03-28T14:00:00.000-04:002009-03-28T14:00:00.000-04:00Seeing all the economy problems causing a lot of s...Seeing all the economy problems causing a lot of stress to me and my family. Not only my parents have to pay for two college fund in the same year with the funds decreasing in valve it is going to be a real challenge to get into a high-valved college like Harvard or Yale. Things like ipod, new cellphones, etc. just by not buying wants will help save up for college. Some main problems for people who just don't get it, we are in a recession. We can't spend money all over the place anymore. It's just not there anymore. Some issues in Pontiac with the distract with barely no money what so ever. The kids who go to Pontiac will be greatly effected by this. Not only the high schools will be cutting back but the classes will be better. There will be limited materials for students, like books, pencils and even school lunches. <BR/>- Tyler DewaldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-54672445754534799462009-03-27T11:59:00.000-04:002009-03-27T11:59:00.000-04:00Paige Peak hr-3The issues in Pontiac with the teac...Paige Peak hr-3<BR/>The issues in Pontiac with the teachers getting laid means that some schools would have to combine with others making them way over crowded. Local businesses being closed down closed is not good for the company or the community meaning driving further to get what you want form the store. Which is not good due to the price of gas. A big thing that is happening with homes is they are being foreclosed and people are buying homes to fix them up and sell them for a higher price. But lately the homes that no one buys are being sold for a much lower cost recently I saw a house that was originally about 170,000 it is now being sold for about 70,000. Which is less than half of what its worth. Since the economy is so bad that’s all the housing companies and the banks can afford to do. Many neighborhoods are flooding with for sale signs. With the stocking markets value decreasing effortlessly, the money invested in them is losing its value also. Which means many of the people getting ready to retire will have to works a few more years than expected and hope they soon reach enough money to retire. If my moms money was invested in the stock market that would not be a good thing if its values were to decrease because my brother and I are only one year apart so two kids in college and not enough money would not turn out well maybe a less expensive college.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-31330239494043764262009-03-24T21:49:00.000-04:002009-03-24T21:49:00.000-04:00Melanie EitenThe future generations should be taug...Melanie Eiten<BR/>The future generations should be taught multiple things about the Iraq War. The most important things that should be taught about the war is that foreign intelligence is fallible, we were fighting a group of people who we do not fully understand when we got involved, and that we did free people from a cruel leader. We entered the war with a belief that Sadam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but later it came to be that there were no weapons. We later found out that our intelligence was incorrect. If the U.S. had better intelligence, then we wouldn’t be in our currant predicament. Secondly, since we did not fully understand the religious extremist whom we were fighting against, or methods they used to fight, we were not prepared emotionally or in troop size. Lastly, many look at the war as wrong and we had no right being there. However we did free its people from a cruel dictator who killed thousands of his own people. We also brought democracy to the Iraqis in hope that they can be free to choose their leaders.<BR/>We will remember many things about the war including spending billions of dollars, and the capture and the death penalty to Sadam Hussein for his crimes. The price of the war is put our country severely in debt. By pulling out our troops as fast as possible, we will save billions and be back on our way to rebuilding our economy. Secondly we will remember the capture of Sadam Hussein because the U.S. had been searching for him for 9 months, and for those 9 months he was in a hole in the ground till we finally caught him. We will remember his death because it was something that the Iraqis and the United Stated had wanted for such a long timeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-12920994314577689472009-03-16T16:29:00.000-04:002009-03-16T16:29:00.000-04:00If I lost my home due to foreclosure I would be ab...If I lost my home due to foreclosure I would be absolutely devastated. You would be forced to move to a place that is cheaper and you may even have to move far from where you lived currently. I would feel as if I just lost a huge part of my life that would never come back. Not only are you affected physically by not having a home, but you are also affected emotionally from losing something that was bought out of hard work and determination. I know that if I had lost my home, I would be torn and not know what to think or do. Everything would be made worse if my college fun was cut in half or even lost. I would have worked so hard all these years in preparation for college and then it would all be taken away. Unfortunately in today’s society, education beyond high school (college) is not cheap. It is very expensive these days to go to college and if the funds are cut in half or lost, kids are not able to get that education. Not getting a college education would further affect their life by lessening their chances of getting a good job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-24578009269008530742009-03-13T14:43:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:43:00.000-04:00If my family lost our home it would suck! I would ...If my family lost our home it would suck! I would be forced to live under hoodrat conditions. I would most likely move with my closest family member which would be my uncle who lives about a half hour away in Rochester. It would be akward living with another family , it would be a total of 8 people in a 5 bed room home which will be uncomfortable and a lot less private. If I lost my home my parents will often argue and be stressed out which I would not like to deal with while im trying to sleep, eat do homework etc.<BR/><BR/><BR/>If my parents lost their jobs my living conditions would change dramatically. I would go from dinner out with my family to fast food and pizza. My style of clothing would change also from jeans that range from 150-250 dollars to about 20-40 dollars. I can forget about my cable, my cell phone, and my high speed internet. I would lose all my thing s that meant something to me because the important things that my family would need would come first before paying the cable bill or my cell phone bill. In conclusion if my family lost their jobs there would be many things in how it would affect my family.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-91297855973748086022009-03-13T14:41:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:41:00.000-04:00Many People are Getting Laid Off or FiredIf my mom...Many People are Getting Laid Off or Fired<BR/><BR/>If my mom lost her job, she would probably have to get a new job. We would probably live off their savings with the bare necessities (food, clothing, shelter). My dad is retired so he would probably have to get a job too. My brother is a senior, even though his college money is set aside, he would probably want to stay home his 1st year to help out. Even though I am only 16 I would probably have to get a summer job, instead of volunteering. To save money, my cleaning lady probably would stop coming, so I would have to do a lot of the housework while my parents are at work. Luckily our house is already paid for so we wouldn’t lose that.<BR/><BR/>Businesses are Closing Down<BR/><BR/> If more and more families continue to lose money they won’t be able to buy Luxury Items at stores, forcing them to shut down. The remainder of the stores would probably take advantage of this opportunity, and raise their prices, to make more money. People would be forced to buy the high priced items because they would be the only ones available.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-77339329348623472352009-03-13T14:36:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:36:00.000-04:00Many people are getting laid off and fired from th...Many people are getting laid off and fired from their jobs. If my own mother lost her job and had no way to support our family. All the thing that we take for granted day to day we lose. The internet, cable, heat, electricity, running water… but most important we would lose our house and we would have nowhere to go. Times like today are really scary because if my parent even had a pay decease it would change how we lived. Because of the job market and economy is doing so bad I try to help my mom out the best I can, and I’m seventeen years old I help pay the rent, and I think most kids my age should because after we move out on our own its only going to get harder to live. A month ago I lost my job and I find it hard to put gas in my gas tank and pay for my phone bill and so on. But I could imagine the stress and hardship of losing your job when your supporting a family because I cannot even take care of myself. those are my thoughts of the job market and economy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-73647667708795005542009-03-13T14:35:00.001-04:002009-03-13T14:35:00.001-04:00If my family’s home got foreclosed I don’t know wh...If my family’s home got foreclosed I don’t know what we would do. We would probably move to Canada because my grandparent’s house is on sale there and they could give us a deal on the house. We might look around the area for an apartment to live in, or a cheaper house. I would have to get a job so I could help pay for the new home. It would be a rough, transition for the whole family. I would have to stop playing hockey because hockey would cost to much. We would definitely have to cut down on the spending majorly. A way we could do this is sign get medicade, food stamps, and other necessities to get by. <BR/>If my parents got laid off our lives would be very different. IN this economy it is very hard to find a job that will support you, and your family. My parents might have to apply for unemployment, and collect unemployment checks, get food stamps, medicade and other things necessary for life. I would have to get a job so I could help pay for the house, so it won’t get foreclosed. I would have to quit both football and hockey, so we could pay bills in time. <BR/><BR/> -Josh CecileAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-41566773241310856292009-03-13T14:35:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:35:00.000-04:002.If my dad’s businesses were to get shut down and...2.If my dad’s businesses were to get shut down and he was unable to supply my family with the income that he does now, we would be forced to find new ways of living. The first thing we’d sacrifice is the trips that we take to places for vacation. My mother would be forced to get a full time job somewhere and spend much less. We would only buy the necessities. One thing my parents would never make me do is interrupt my school work and curricular classes to supply for the family. My father would find other places in the state to make money. He’s a very smart man who would find a way to avoid the ultimate low of affecting his kids lives.<BR/>4. As the stock market crashes, my family would of probably taken the money they have left out of the market because there isn’t a for sure chance that it will raise any time soon. If we were too late, and all the money was lost this close to college, I would be forced to stay in state. We would probably take a loan out of the bank even if it would cause a larger debt, over time it would get paid back and my family would know to never trust something that isn’t a for sure money maker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-51936725754694945102009-03-13T14:34:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:34:00.000-04:00I would have a much harder time if my college fund...I would have a much harder time if my college fund was cut in half. I would struggle to find enough money to put myself through college. If my money got cut in half, I would have to apply for student loans. It would be very difficult to find enough money to replace what was lost. If I did not find enough money to put myself through college, I would have to change what college I want to go to. This would be difficult to do, especially if I had had decided on a college that I wanted to go to. If my dad was laid off from his job, my family would really struggle. We would have a tough time bringing in money, as my dad was the main source of it. My family might have to go on welfare to be able to support ourselves. We would not have any way to pay the mortgage on our house, and it would be very difficult to try to move to a different area because of all the extra costs that come with it. My family would have to reduce the amount of material things that we use. The economy is getting worse and I am not sure that my family would recover from this debacle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-47685848656214659362009-03-13T14:33:00.001-04:002009-03-13T14:33:00.001-04:00If my family lost its home we would be devastated,...If my family lost its home we would be devastated, we would probably have to move to a crack house in Detroit. We wouldn’t be in a nice neighborhood and wouldn’t be able to get a good education like the education we received in Birmingham. I wouldn’t have good friends and they would probably pressure me into doing bad things like drinking and smoking, and I could possibly end up in jail. Our life would never be the same we would be scared everyday of loosing this house also. It would change our lives and many people are going through this every day. If one of my parents got laid off we would have to make a lot of changes. I would probably have to get a job to support the family, same with my sister. I wouldn’t be able to go to a good school Eastern Michigan or Michigan. I would probably have to go to another school like WCCCD which is Wayne County Community College District or Michigan Dearborn. We probably would have to buy less goods and lower quality goods. This would be a devastating thing to happen and I hope this will never happen to me or anyone else even though there’s sometimes no way to avoid it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-58981792505094035512009-03-13T14:33:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:33:00.000-04:00Though America is a great country to live in, the ...Though America is a great country to live in, the economy is suffering dramatically. In this struggling economy there are many people that are getting laid off or fired. Also, homes are either being foreclosed on or their prices have plummeted far below their mortgage price. My family has experienced both of these major issues like many other Americans. My step-dad was laid off a couple years ago when the economy first started to plummet. His boss basically told him he was being paid too much and they could not afford to have him work there anymore. He worked there for more than ten years. Going from living on two incomes to living on one was a big change in all of our lives. When we first moved into our house, it was worth a lot more than what it is worth now. With the economy struggling we owe more on our mortgage than what our house is worth. As of right now we are not in any danger of our home being foreclosed. My parents would like to move somewhere that they can both have better and more secure jobs but since our house is worth a lot less now than it was when we moved in we cannot afford to at this point. In conclusion, if this struggling economy gets any worse, another depression could be in our future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-73369622039415385502009-03-13T14:32:00.001-04:002009-03-13T14:32:00.001-04:00If my mom got laid off I wouldn’t be too worried b...If my mom got laid off I wouldn’t be too worried because we have many connections in the home building business so my life would not be affected too greatly. Also, if my dad got laid off my family would not be affected too greatly because he could go to another firm. In the situation where my parents were totally laid off and could not get a job then my life would be affected greatly. I would have to start looking for jobs and have to cut back on the luxuries such as vacations and going out to eat. My education is important to me and if I could not go to the college I wanted to my future would be affected dramatically. I would probably have to settle for a community college or a local college because my college fund has gone down dramatically. We would have to make a tough decision whether to take out a loan and go into debt or to go to a community college. Debt is usually a risky decision that no family would want to make. Also I would have to get a job and work so I would have money in collegeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-17504363022066912832009-03-13T14:32:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:32:00.000-04:00If my parents were both to get laid off and our ho...If my parents were both to get laid off and our home became foreclosed we wouldn’t be in that good of shape. We would first off have to find a place to stay at which would probably be with other family members. If I were to have any dreams going to collage those would probably go down the drain unless I could be able to pay for something like OCC. If I didn’t go to collage my future wouldn’t be looking to bright for me unless I were to pull off a miracle. We would have trouble paying for food and things we need in order to just survive. All members in my family would have to get a couple of jobs to jus pay for these things if they were old enough and if they were able to find another job. We wouldn’t be able to have anything to make our life fun or any wants. We probably would of lost all our cars and would have to take the bus to get around the city. It would be tough looking for a new house in a decent location to move back into. It would be a long time in order for that to happen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-1451734729569756562009-03-13T14:30:00.002-04:002009-03-13T14:30:00.002-04:001.Many people have been getting laid off and many ...1.Many people have been getting laid off and many families are suffering from it. If this happened to my family I think that there would be problems. My mom does not work so this would mean that no one in my family would be working if my dad got laid off. If no one in my family would be working then my family would not be making any income. If my dad were to get laid off there would be many different results and issues in my family. The money that we spend on clothes, gifts, food, and school vacations would have to be taken down. The house that we have in Florida would have to be sold. And just the all around things that we spend money o0n would have to be eliminated. Also the college I would want to go to would possibly have to be changed. Also the school sports I participate in would have to be taken away. <BR/><BR/>3.The amount of home foreclosures right now is sky rocketing. People in the neighborhoods keep leaving and getting kicked out and it is bad. If my family was to not be able to pay the rent on our house and we were to get kicked out of it many things would have to change. If this happened to my family we would possibly take a loan out so we could stay there until we couldn’t afford it at all. We could use this loan while we looked for another job or a better paying job. This way we would be able to afford our house and we could live in it again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-18634028670129743782009-03-13T14:30:00.001-04:002009-03-13T14:30:00.001-04:00The economy now is in very hard times. Things are ...The economy now is in very hard times. Things are changing all around us. Innocent people are losing jobs and homes. So what would happen if one of these things happened to my family? I can’t imagine not being able to go to college because all of a sudden my college fund no longer existed. My family put away just enough money for me and my siblings to go and now we can’t. I would have to stay home so I can help my family earn money so we can stay in our house, but what about my future. I wouldn’t want to stay home forever and I don’t think anyone would. My dad already got laid off from Ford and luckily found another job. My mom had to get a job and I would too if I wasn’t able to go to college. We need to be able to keep our house so my siblings will have a place to call home. If we ever did lose our house we would probably move out of Michigan so my parents could find some sort of work. It wouldn’t be the same though. All of our friends and family is here. Our whole lifestyle would be turned upside down. Luckily this hasn’t happened to us, at least not yet. You never know what will happen in our economy these days. <BR/>Allison SmartAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-90305451244557389482009-03-13T14:30:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:30:00.000-04:00In talking about the economic problems in the coun...In talking about the economic problems in the country today, one of the problems is that many people are getting laid off or fired. In my personal experiences, my dad was already laid off from his job in 2006. He worked at a television company called GTN for about 25 years. While attending Eastern Michigan University, he got offered a job a GTN. So GTN was all he knew what to do. But after 25 years he got laid off. My mom had to get 3 new jobs just to support our family. But, my dad decided to go back to college to finish his teaching degree. Three years later he finally got a full-time teaching job at Academy of Oak Park, which isn’t the best job but at least he has a job in this economy. Another issue in this economy is that homes are being foreclosed or their price has plummeted far below their mortgage price. If my family and I were to lose our house, I don’t know what we would do. We’ve been scraping money just to pay our house mortgage ever since my dad lost his job because we had to pay for his college funds, so it’s hard enough to pay for our mortgage already. But if we lost our home I don’t know where we’d go. Our lives would be crushed. In conclusion, if the economy gets any worse, we’ll all be screwed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-68615851465751160492009-03-13T14:29:00.001-04:002009-03-13T14:29:00.001-04:001.If one of my parents suddenly lost their job, I ...1.If one of my parents suddenly lost their job, I think that my life would change a lot, and in a short amount of time. We wouldn’t be able to do anything extra like going to the movies anymore, or go out to dinner. We would have to use generic brands and other cheaper things to cut back on the price. My family would have to cut back more than we already are. I think that it would be harder to save for college education or to buy my first car. Any extra money we had would be put towards the stack of bills each month and we would only buy the necessities to live. I might also have to get a job to help pay the bills each month. <BR/>3.Our home getting foreclosed would also change our life a lot, too. We would have to find a place to live, most likely a relative’s house, or a shelter if things get really bad. This would also make it hard to have a car because if are home was foreclosed we probably won’t have enough money to pay any other bills either. We would also have to find a way to get some income, so I might have to get a job to help pay bills, or my parents might both have to get a job or multiple jobs to support us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-2206846498054001342009-03-13T14:29:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:29:00.000-04:001) So many people are losing jobs right now. If o...1) So many people are losing jobs right now. If one of my parents were to lose their job my life would change drastically. My dad has his own business so that would mean we are just getting the money from my mom’s job. If my dad were to lose his job and my mom were the only one working they we wouldn’t be getting nearly enough money to pay for our lifestyle. We would have to cut out a lot and possibly take out a loan so we could pay for the wedding this summer for my brother. We would probably have to cut out poms for me as well as camp in the summer and my future with college would be unbelievably different. I would no longer have as big of a choice for college and would possibly have to look into a smaller college or community college.<BR/>3) The amount of houses that are being foreclosed right now is ridiculous. People are realizing their neighbors are disappearing and they don’t know why. If this were to happen to my family I don’t know how it would be possible to leave our home. I think that we would take out another loan to help pay for it until we could get back on our feet and cut some of the unnecessary things out of our life which our costing us money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-67636077023462408102009-03-13T14:28:00.001-04:002009-03-13T14:28:00.001-04:00If my parents were both laid off work it would be ...If my parents were both laid off work it would be very difficult for us to life our daily lives because, we wouldn’t be able to afford our bills or food so we would have to sell our stuff like our big screen tv’s we would have to eventually sell the house if work conditions just weren’t going to turn out alright, and I would go CRAZY without my video games so if my parents lost their job we would lose everything that we need or use or otherwise take for granite. I have experienced the reality of businesses closing down already an example would be at my old job Busciemie’s they had to close because they put too much money into their new building and couldn’t pay off their mortgage so the bank closed them and sold off all the food, grills, and computers off at an auction. Another experience would be at my Mom’s boyfriends work they had to fire a NUMEROUS amount of workers some experienced and some new at clear channel radio station. They said that they were firing people all across the stations areas from marketing to advertising and cutting off some commercials from their broadcasts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-47618696193119185542009-03-13T14:28:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:28:00.000-04:001. A few of my friends have parents that have lost...1. A few of my friends have parents that have lost their jobs and I can only imagine how horrible that would be. Thankfully, due to the current jobs my parents have, that is not likely. However, if it did, I would probably try to get a job or earn money the best way I could. Since I’m 15 there aren’t many job opportunities available for me, but I could babysit neighbors or find a job that would allow me to work at my age. My family and I would also have to cut back on a lot of things like buying clothes, technology, etc. We would also only buy food that was necessary for our nutrition. We also might have to sell a lot of the things that we have that we don’t really need.<BR/>2. If my home became foreclosed, my family and I would find relatives’ homes to reside in for the time being. My grandparents, who are currently retired, would probably be able to offer us a place to stay in Huntington Woods, where they live. Hopefully, we would find something to do with our furniture, or at least the things that we really liked. We’d also find a place to keep our two cats, Midnight and Groucho.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943050.post-14232306972726132152009-03-13T14:27:00.000-04:002009-03-13T14:27:00.000-04:002. Many businesses are closing. If my dad’s busine...2. Many businesses are closing. If my dad’s business closed we would have no source of an income. My dad would have to find another job. Also my mom might have to go to work to earn enough money for our family to live. Still if my dad lost his job we might have to move in a smaller house that is more affordable. We might even have to change school districts because my family might not be able to afford a house in the Birmingham school district if my dad lost his job. I might even have to get a job if my dad lost his job so my family can have enough money to live on. <BR/>3. If my house got foreclosed on because my family couldn’t pay the mortgage my family might have to find somewhere else to live till we find a cheaper house we could afford. We might have to live with a family member or in a hotel temporally. We also might not be able to be approved for a new mortgage to get a new house so we might end up staying with a family member or in a hotel for a long time till we could get approved for a mortgage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com