Question: What is your name and profession?

Answer: "Michael Bailey. I am a vocational electronic technician, pastor, and a computer lab technician."

Question: What do you think a recession is?

Answer: "I think a recession is after 3 consecutive months that unemployment is down, the stock market is down, and that that banks are failing."

Question: Have you been affected by the recession?

Answer: "No, because being retired and still employed it hasn't affected me, but I do have other problems. My son was laid off and we had to help him. I think it has affected a lot of families."

Question: Do you think unemployment will increase or decrease?

Answer: "I believe it has a possibility to increase, however it's going to decrease because there's some stability still."

Question: What or who do you think caused the recession?

Answer: "Greed, the banking industry, and real estate."