You all are listening to the "doomsayers" that profit from your fear...
we are in the most recession proof end of one of the most recession proof business there is. when the rest of the economy takes a dump, the forklift service end of things has more business, when things in the economy are good, businesses buy new equipment. bad business should be allowed to fail go away. What we do will be "in demand" until they figure out how to "beam" (ala StarTrek) goods to customers.
we will HAVE to pay the bills that were run up in the last 8 years, and it will be more painful than if we had "paid as we went", but anyone that has ever run up the credit cards knows, you have to pay it off, or no more credit...