People in general have a right to have an opinion on absolutely anything, I'm pretty sure it's the media who decide whose opinions count these days, they certainly don't HAVE to write what the bishops say.
And the bishops said some EXCELLENT stuff in relation to the credit crunch a few months ago so they don't always talk nonsense.
Also, redundancy can be very good for the soul. I was made redundant whilst at college, sadly at the time I lost my friend to cancer, and I was obviously down for a while but one day I thought, none of this needs to negatively affect my life, I can pick myself up and use it to motivate me for the next step.
Yes the current economic climate is bad, believe me there are enough students depressed about the struggles they are going to have after spending so much money on getting a degree, but every cloud has a silver lining and so on.
And there is always emigration to Australia. That seems to be a popular choice amongst my fellow students.
I personally think I'll ride the waves and do my best to make sure I don't drown in the doom and gloom of the cynics surrounding me
