A worldwide phenomena of unemployment, cut salaries, devalued currencies, bank bailouts, political instabilities, massive geological damage done by petrochemical mining, food costs hikes just to name a few of the events, and none of which appears to be slowing due to the Christmas/Holiday season. Here in the US many can still pretend all those things that have Europeans in the streets protesting is not their problem. Why? They still have jobs, can pay their mortgages, can afford to fill their cars with gas, go on vacations, have savings and 401k(s). Unfortunately the numbers of Americans quietly dealing with not having employment has increased and the months of November and December will see at least 2 million of those people dropped from receiving unemployment payments.