Depression or a Recession?

[shoe1985]

With gas prices going crazy again, I keep hearing $4 a gallon by summer. Job gains not meeting what they should, or the new jobs replacing the old jobs that don't pay anywhere near what the old jobs people had. More people heading to the welfare line. More jobs being pushed overseas it seems everyday. Minimum wage finally getting some much needed recognition again, and mean very little hiring coming up for many places until they can even out everything with pay and how much to charge for problems. Inflation about to go crazy.

Are we heading towards a Recession, and maybe a Depression?

Lets have a nice conversation with this one guys and girls.

[Criminal Rock]

I don't see anything major happening... gas prices and job gains/losses fluctuate all the time, so its hard to say whats certain and what isn't.

[The Postmaster General]

I think there are hard times, but also that it is a regional problem in the US. That's why everyone isn't on the same page - people where there are problems & complain about problems are annoyed at the people who are where there are no problems and complain there are no problems and that the first group is a pickup bed full of loons. I don't buy that "Just move!" shit either, because it is our right to complain and the politicians JOB to fix it, and this is a free country and there is nothing more free than living where you want to live, and America's greatness is that there is so much to offer in that park. You allow parts of our nation to live in poverty and you are taking away those rights, granted not written in law, but in our hearts we know that's why America rocks. If those fuckers tell me I should just get up and move, I might as well just move to Canada.

There's too many people, in a sense - and the gap between the people who experience it one way is too far shot from the ones who experience it the other way. And I don't necessarily think it's a people process because breeding is good - it's what seems to most separate our race from the perseverance of the incests. I think it's a failure to communicate problem, and a failure to trust, which falls under the failure to communicate, but slightly more tangible.

I don't know, this has me all upset so I'm going to go read about what Lucas said about Spiderman 3, so that I can cool down. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. You're cool. And fuck you! I'm out! Haha. Remember that one?

[Vong]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
If those fuckers tell me I should just get up and move, I might as well just move to Canada.

There are laws against dumping trash in your neighbours yard you know :D

[shoe1985]

Originally posted by Tai Mai Jew
I don't see anything major happening... gas prices and job gains/losses fluctuate all the time, so its hard to say whats certain and what isn't.

I agree, but don't. I know in my area, where it is mainly lower and middle class, we are finding it harder to pay for gas and our bills. Most people work 2-3 jobs it seems anymore just to by. It hasn't always been that way. It seems that the only jobs we have left are minimum wage jobs. Anything more than those are usually temp jobs. You could be working a month of 40 hour weeks, than go in one day and be told there is no work. You could be layed off for a month to who knows when.

I spoked with my uncle who lives in Florida and he said it is the same there.

Gas right now in my area is $2.94, and I see people already questioning each other about what they will do when it reaches $4 like the experts say? We have seen grocery prices rise close to 10-20% in the last year, yet wages are going down. We have minimum wage rising to $7.15 from $5.15 this July, it is at $6.25 now because it moves in increments.

I believe we need to reinvent our country to keep the economy moving along, or else we are in trouble. The population is growing at huge rates it seems, yet the jobs are getting slimmer and slimmer.

[Thrizzle]

A recession definitely. It's just the cycle of the economy and the current climate. What goes up must come down and visa versa.

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by Vong
There are laws against dumping trash in your neighbours yard you know :D

:D :D :D




Hey, wait a minute! :mad:




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[shoe1985]

Originally posted by Thrizzle
A recession definitely. It's just the cycle of the economy and the current climate. What goes up must come down and visa versa.

I know that. I am a business major in college and had to study the economy. It seems like so many things are hitting it at once, and it could really cause major problems.