The "Credit Crunch" and you?

[iCraig]

My Dad (builder) is really starting to feel it. 2 more jobs left on but nothing else in the pipeline. Should take him through to the end of Dec then him and his mates are on their own unless Barrett find them something. Anything.

His pension is also suffering, and even with my Mum moving into full time work to help, they may need to run off their savings in 2009. The savings they've kept in reserve for decades to enjoy when they retire. It's depressing and unfair, my Dad has worked his fingers to the bone all his life, and is approaching retirement in the next 5-10 years and it's not looking good, the government are pledging to help where they can but it all seems too little too late and thousands of honest workers like my Dad who have put blood sweat and tears into their job, the subsquently the economy, and are now being "punished" for other's greed and mistakes.