OT: Economy is what?

[Ombligo]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
the tech world is a bit bubbly at the moment.

Then there's RIM...

Drowning victims often bubble on the way down...

[N-OS X-tasy!]

AllGold wrote:
[quote=Grateful11]
A large chemical company said the other day they need 1,000,000 Engineers starting off at $85K
and colleges only graduated 200,000 engineers this year, they're out sourcing to other countries.

Something does't smell right about that. A million engineers... ...per year... ...at one company?
That sounds suspect to me, too.

[kap]

testcase wrote:
[quote=billb]
[quote=testcase]
I'll meet my sister at a local Outback restaurant about every other weekend. We eat early (4:30 PM). As we're leaving, the waiting line is often out the door. You'd think Outback was giving away food! Little to no sign of a bad economy there.

In the real world though, the U.S. (and world) is in deep sh!t and, I believe things are getting worse. I also believe that things will have to get a LOT worse before things start to get better. World "leaders" are truly a joke. How the Mayans knew the world will end next year is a mystery but, politicians the world over are working furiously to see that it happens.

Have you noticed the lines seem to get longer and shorter as the price of gas goes up and down ?
I see that here.
-and Outback didn't make it, it closed.
billb, Can't say I've seen anything correlating to gas prices. When the weather is really nice, the crowd seems to arrive later. I'm guessing that people were out taking advantage of the earlier Daylight Savings Time.
With all the smoke from the BBQing/Grilling (for you Southerners. Sheesh!) around our neighborhood from the past few weeks, I'd say the economy is on the re-bounce X(

Oh, yeah, admins, when are we going to have a BBQ/Grill smiley?!!

[Buzz]

Reality: Economy is smoke and mirrors.

More Reality: Our government is blowing much of that smoke up our collective arses to get us to view the economy in a funhouse mirror... by trying to soften or otherwise distort the the reality of the economy to appear better than it really is, in order to buy time for it to digest all the bad bullsn!t the government knows is still hidden under rocks.

The Ultimate Reality: All of this misdirection is to try to thwart the country, and then the world, from going totally in the toilet, by instilling a false sense of security that things are OK as long as possible, and that eventually the global economy will really pick up and the smoke and mirrors will be replaced w/ [more] hookers and booze.

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[Black]

Something I noticed with similar recent threads--
once they're moved to the political side, the percentage of informed opinions increases and the percentage of opinions of folks who follow politics by reading e-mail forwards drops.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....not sure if this makes CENTS.......???

[NewtonMP2100]

DeusxMac wrote:

Then there's RIM...

.....by whom....????