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Answer» Anyways, since I am currently pissed at quite a few people, I am GOING to take it out on all of you (no individual attacks, of course) (that means: Feel special, dumbfounded people) Why blame the dollar ? ?Its a big huge round colorful circle that keeps going around and around, its EVERYTHING. It's just a repeat of the 70's with Jimmy Carter. Most of the Gloom and Doom is political. Check things out next spring.They will be right as rain again.It's not an exact repeat of the seventies, and I'm not splitting hairs with you street. I think it's worse. I don't think Mr. Carter was the best of presidents, but I think he's a good person and great humanitarian. I don't think the economics of the seventies were all his fault. We've lived through deregulation of most utilities and industries, and all I hear is how about this "free market" economy is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Look at airline deregulation. Sure, it drove down prices, and part of the current problem is fuel price, but Delta and Northwest are merging (and I hear that United and Continental are watching the D / N merger, and they plan a similar announcement). I see more and more industries where "competition" is leading to merger after merger to the point where if we don't have the monopolies the deregulation sought to dismantle, we're so close to them, I ask what the difference is? Don't even get me started on telecomm. Sure, long distance finally became dirt-cheap and free (on certain services) but we are sixteenth in the world on the bandwidth ladder, and slipping. I don't think cell service is all that terribly cheap -- yes, it's cheaper than twenty years ago...and in the background, internet neutrality is at stake -- the providers will strangle us if they get the chance. There are parts of the country that are still doing well, and parts where people are hurting worse than before. The politicians tell us to "retrain" -- well, retrain to do what??? I/T has kind of made a comeback, but I know people that are worried about their I/T jobs. Medical coding and billing, trumpeted for the last five years or so, is becoming more and more electronic. Too much of the stock is held by holding companies or people so FAR removed from the company, that not enough people care. Know the old joke about the difference between a recession and a depression? A recession is when your neighbor gets laid off -- a depression is when you get laid off. We in the US claim to be this Judeo-Christian society (even though Judeo-Christian itself is a contradiction) but we'll go to church on Sunday, and then lay off our neighbor on Monday. (I know business is business, and sometimes it's inevitable, but just GIVING the jobs away for the sake of profits, profits, profits -- come on.) Whose gonna buy the products, no matter where they're being made? I agree Aegis but, it is an election cycle and you know how things go. By the way,a very elliquent reply. My 8th grade education made me read it three times before replying....... I could go on and on (and probably will about the bad stuff, but I recognize the goodness, too -- I have a lot for which to be thankful -- and it's the good people here (and in other places) who keep reminding me of this. I apologize to all of you for making it an almost full-time job. Ok... |
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