Everything Dropping?!?!

are you one of the people that is affected by the dropping of the stocks?
people are going around crazy selling off their precious cars even for a loss...
why is all this happening?
just a close down of something in the US can cause such a big chain effect?
when the state is going to recession... it's not just only recession...
there will also be other things affect by it...
people's emotion, physcological thinking... etc...
but while all the things that are of value to us are dropping..
then why are the thing we use like water, gas and electricity will raise?
shouldn't they drop as well?
just wondering how they calculate with such figures and they just need to increase after giving u a bit of money saying to help u cope over with the hard times...
if this is what they want to help... i rather not take the money and they leave the unit price as it is...