But we're not alone. The anxiety I feel is replicated all through the economy- at every level except the very highest. Anyone who's not in Osborne's income bracket is going to be squeezed, harried and whacked around by this government's proposed programme of cuts.
Now here's something I really don't understand. The government is proposing to cut welfare at precisely the moment when thousands upon thousands of people will be turfed out onto the streets as workforces are shrunk and businesses go under. Has Osborne done his maths, or is he- as I suspect- making it up as he goes along?
I think there will be trouble. I think we're going to have civil unrest on a scale we haven't seen since the '80s. Actually it could be much worse than the 80s- because the proposed cuts are much bigger and more drastic than anything Thatcher attempted.
The coalition government is a government of the very rich. It is made up of people who have never had to worry about their next pay-check. They would like to destroy the Welfare State because- looking down from their unthreatened eyries- they have never seen the point of it. Thus far they have carried the people with them because we all understand the need to do something about the deficit. This acquiescence is about to end.