At a run down apartment complex in Las Vegas Sargeant Geary thumps on a door. The woman inside pleads with him for more time as a baby cries in the background. As the locksmith works on the door she hurriedly gathers all she can carry. "We get people that are desperate", says Sargeant Geary. But for him this has been just another day at the office, evictions is nearly all he does now. "Of the evictions I am doing 40 to 50% have to do with someone who lost his job". It's a terrible indictment of the US economy that, despite bailouts, stimulus packages and talks of recovery, many hardworking Americans have only seen matters get worse and worse over the past two years. Where once in Las Vegas the casinos and hotels provided more jobs than could be filled now the only industry making money is the one feeding of the economic collapse. "I make my fortune on somebody else's misfortune" says one man at this auction, who hopes to make a few bucks off the possessions of some poor evictee. Las Vegas, it seems, remains a far cry from the economic recovery the Wall Street Journal is telling us about.