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Unlimited text messages are awesome. After you finally convince your parents to buy this feature for your cell phone plan, you go crazy. After a day your fingers are raw with the joy of it. You have never been this connected to your friends, acquaintances or that cute guy you exchanged numbers with in class to get together and "study.

It is arguable that companies should be permitted to fail. In domestic free market economies, this is fate of inefficient, ineffective or unlucky companies. However, this is not always the case, especially in hard times. Employment in a recession is difficult to sustain, and any serious damage to sector employment can lead to decreased consumer spending, financial panic and of course, worse times for those who lose their jobs.