Unemployment and the Coming Crisis (w/poll)

We have heard a lot about the looming financial crisis. We have heard that all the signs of crisis are on the horizon. We are told the dollar is worth its weight in warm snot. The Fed keeps doing something with interest rates that draws media attention, as if they are fine tuning the vital signs on a dying patient. We are told that the finance professionals just one level above us are shaking in their boots and sounding alarms. Even in the face of all this, for most of us, it is dinner and movie again this weekend. Maybe not so much longer. I had a fairly stable professional level job which I was driven out of five weeks ago. Within two weeks after that, a close relative lost his six-figure position. My best friend bought it by phone from headquarters on Friday, and we learned today that a mutual friend went down yesterday. My question is, is this the beginning?