[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('IslandCrow', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'F')orget mad max read the book of Revelation.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'E')vents will continue to speed up. What took a decade to happen in the 60's will now take place within 20 days. Things will continue to speed up from here. It has been written!

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'E')vents will continue to speed up. What took a decade to happen in the 60's will now take place within 20 days. Things will continue to speed up from here. It has been written!

[StormBringer]

Dose the 1 million job loss take into effect the number of people entering the work force as teens???...if not the actual # is much higher.

And i couldnt agree more with...

It will hit the majority of people square in the face and the ones that see it coming won't be much better off unless they have a Bunker to hide in and weather the storm being 99% self reliant.

The problem is: That's very very VERY few people and they better keep a very low profile, desperation suspends morale :/

[Byron100]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'Y')eah. It's really weird right now, because theres' this huge storm blowing up on the horizon, and yet, where we're standing, things aren't bad. I don't know anyone who's hurting badly yet. There's this cloud hanging over of what's coming though.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('IgnoranceIsBliss', 'R')egarding "make work" projects:

Who is going to run the projects? (general contractors and such) These companies are all out of business. Who is going to underwrite their liability insurance and workers' comp insurance?

How are workers going to get to the project areas? Commute hours every day? Live on site? What about their kids and families?

Will we even be able to get parts and supplies from China? (like new HVAC units for buildings/ schools)

These are just a few issues that I can think of right off the bat. My parents owned a construction company for 30+ years and I know a bit about how things work. If payments aren't received quickly (from the feds once this thing gets running), that will also put companies out of business.

Of course, we are all betting the ranch on the fact that someone is going to be willing to lend us billions of dollars to pay for this great new initiative. I think we will soon see that this is wishful thinking.

[sittinguy]

I think after the holidaz, layoff bombs are going to drop.

There are going to be alot of execs sitting around tables discussung closing the doors and taking whatever is left (if anything) after the new year.

Enjoy your last few months of life as we know it.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'E')vents will continue to speed up. What took a decade to happen in the 60's will now take place within 20 days. Things will continue to speed up from here. It has been written!

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'E')vents will continue to speed up. What took a decade to happen in the 60's will now take place within 20 days. Things will continue to speed up from here. It has been written!

[lowem]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cipi604', '2')5% or BUST! A few more millions to go... who's counting any more? Let them eat cake.

[mgibbons19]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Byron100', '
')My gosh, what kind of Utopia are you living in?? Ever read a newspaper? Take a look at the local TV news? You don't see all those empty gaps in retail shopping centers? You don't notice how short the lines are these days? The sharp increase of panhandlers at street corners?

Here in Atlanta, at least, it's looking pretty grim. Firefighters getting laid off. Teachers getting a pay CUT next year. Crime rates making an ever-steepening climb upwards. Public employees being furloughed one day a month. And, of course, the never-ending stream of layoffs in the private sector. A couple hundred people here, a few dozen there. Each day it gets a bit worse, and everywhere you go, you hear people talking about "hard times." Hard times, indeed.

If you don't feel it yet, you will very soon. If not, you have the utmost moral duty to provide the rest of us your latitude and longitude so the rest of us can load up our jalopies and make our way to the new Promised Land.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'T')hanks for my dose of Uber-Doom for the day. I'm now ready to face the work-place.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s many as a million American jobs could be lost every month by next spring...according to a new analysis.

Graham Turner, of consultancy GFC Economics...

...Turner says...

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '
')Who is this guy, and why are we taking what he says as absolute Gospel truth, cast in titanium?

What is this? Why are we all turning into such a pack of drama queens? A link to a story is posted, and we start quoting apocalyptic scripture as an accurate forecast of what is going to happen.

Hello?

Some of us really are letting all this get to us, it looks like. Calm down, for Christ's sake. There will be no mass suicide cults formed. There will be no death camps.

Get a grip, people. Jesus...

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '
')Who is this guy, and why are we taking what he says as absolute Gospel truth, cast in titanium?

What is this? Why are we all turning into such a pack of drama queens? A link to a story is posted, and we start quoting apocalyptic scripture as an accurate forecast of what is going to happen.

Hello?

Some of us really are letting all this get to us, it looks like. Calm down, for Christ's sake. There will be no mass suicide cults formed. There will be no death camps.

Get a grip, people. Jesus...

[Tyler_JC]

Jesus didn't have to deal with a credit, housing, jobs, environmental and energy crisis hitting at the same time.

If He were to come back today, I think He would understand our need to return to public stoning of the fortunetellers.

[deMolay]

Over 500,000 Jobs gone in January alone. http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/06/ ... 424655.php

[Daniel_Plainview]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'O')ver 500,000 Jobs gone in January alone. http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/06/ ... 424655.php

[bratticus]

quite a bloodbath

http://www.layoffdaily.com/

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Monthly job losses largest decline since 1974 by Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer, Friday, February 6, 2009:
SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 percent in January, its highest level since September 1992, as employers cut 598,000 payroll jobs in a recessionary spiral with no immediate end in sight. --skip--

A Labor Department report issued Friday paints a grim picture of a deteriorating economy that has lost 3.6 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007, with roughly half of those losses occurring within the past three months. January's payroll job losses were the steepest one-month decline since the end of 1974 when the nation was battling another deep recession. ... snip ...