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Originally Posted by chucklesR
Here's some positive news.
I'm just fine. Not one of my friends or acquaintances is considering a foreclosure and I have lots of friends and acquaintances in my community.
In fact, I don't know anyone who has been laid off or is suffering in any way shape or form from this 1930's type depression. Even my real estate agent friend is busier than ever selling houses.
Every time I get a negative link on this thread I simply go to google and do a five minute search and sha-zam the other side of the story pops up, with the vast majority of the objectively reported and researched links being positive.
Numbers can be twisted, real life if more objective.
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Chuck, ummm, you're experiencing your "real life" through the rose colored glasses of being a Beltway Bandit in the protected environs of the Baltimore/Washington area. Remember, not everyone in the country can crow about the ability to charge their time on Sailnet to a gubmint contract the way you have. When i worked for the government I suspended an employee like you and was set to fire him, but he retired first.
Just in the Post today, nationwide business insolvencies are up 44 percent over last year and expected to go higher this year. in pg county just to the west of you, 10,000 eviction notices are filed each month. A friend from high school is in the real estate business in Richmond-- she is barely hanging on. Also in Richmond, both my neice and nephew lost their jobs in the last year, and my neice subsequently lost her house. My wife's cousin in Texas lost his accounting job with Union Carbide and feels lucky to have gotten a job with the county down there at about 1/4 of what he once earned. but at least his family will have health insurance.
That is the real life you and all your many friends and acquaintants have been blessed to miss. HEll, even mcCain says we are worse off now than we were 4 years ago. Perhaps we have avoided the classic definition of a recession, but that doesn't mean everyone is hunky dory does it??