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puppetmakerCan I have a big Monster House DONE on the DVD project. Everything is organized. I have only a few disks that have no case and a few cases that have no DVD. It is better than I thought it would be. My big fear is that I am forgetting something and I am going to find more DVDs while I am cleaning.
Caroline had her flu shot yesterday. They wanted to do it in her rump but she convinced them to do it in her arm which she sat for like a trooper. This morning her arm is a little sore but that seems to be the only side effect from the shot.
We have, apparently, been in a recession since last December according to National Bureau of Economic Research to which I have to say Duh. They haven't wanted to use the "r" word for fear of tanking the markets. Well can't say that it helped much to not say it.
Right now Americans are worried about what name their bank will have the next day or even if they will have a bank. Pensioners are being told that benefits that they were promised are no longer available or greatly curtailed due to companies vanishing. The middle class and the poor are getting the shaft while CEOs are still getting their perks. Before we start bailing out the automakers and whoever else need money, let us see the corporate fat cats take a salary cut and lose the perks to something reasonable. Screwing over the little guy while you can still play golf does not endure you to me.
My sympathies to the family of New York bus driver Edwin Thomas who was killed yesterday when he wouldn't give a transfer slip to a fair jumper. I hope that they find this dirt bag and string him up by his privates. Mr. Thomas followed MTA policy and did not confront the fair jumper when he got on the bus but he drew the line at rewarding the thief for not paying a fare and it cost him his life.
And they are talking cutting back personal and security at the MTA which is a bad idea. Hey, why don't the CEOs and other members of upper management who are making as much as three union station masters cut their salaries so we can protect the workers? No? Didn't think so.
I am grateful for things that make me feel better.
Caroline had her flu shot yesterday. They wanted to do it in her rump but she convinced them to do it in her arm which she sat for like a trooper. This morning her arm is a little sore but that seems to be the only side effect from the shot.
We have, apparently, been in a recession since last December according to National Bureau of Economic Research to which I have to say Duh. They haven't wanted to use the "r" word for fear of tanking the markets. Well can't say that it helped much to not say it.
Right now Americans are worried about what name their bank will have the next day or even if they will have a bank. Pensioners are being told that benefits that they were promised are no longer available or greatly curtailed due to companies vanishing. The middle class and the poor are getting the shaft while CEOs are still getting their perks. Before we start bailing out the automakers and whoever else need money, let us see the corporate fat cats take a salary cut and lose the perks to something reasonable. Screwing over the little guy while you can still play golf does not endure you to me.
My sympathies to the family of New York bus driver Edwin Thomas who was killed yesterday when he wouldn't give a transfer slip to a fair jumper. I hope that they find this dirt bag and string him up by his privates. Mr. Thomas followed MTA policy and did not confront the fair jumper when he got on the bus but he drew the line at rewarding the thief for not paying a fare and it cost him his life.
And they are talking cutting back personal and security at the MTA which is a bad idea. Hey, why don't the CEOs and other members of upper management who are making as much as three union station masters cut their salaries so we can protect the workers? No? Didn't think so.
I am grateful for things that make me feel better.
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Date: 2008-12-02 03:16 pm (UTC)I hear you about the economy. It is so sad that so many people are having to suffer while corporations and financial institutions do nothing to alleviate the problem that they helped create. A friend who does temp work in the financial district recently mentioned that the funds from the bailout plan were being referred to as "profit" by the people he was working for... Not good.
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Date: 2008-12-02 04:03 pm (UTC)I'm sorry, guys, as much as it will really really auck to have so many out of work, the detroit three do not deserve hand outs. At all.
The UAW is partly to blame for making this mess unsustainable, the CEOs are a bigger part by ignoring auto trends and pushing out huge vehicles, and ugly as sin muscle cars, to a population that really just wants a toyota yaris.
A recession is a cleansing period. Things will fail, corporations will get cut to the bone if they survive at all. And in the end, the strong, or those who provide something people need or want, will come out bruised and battered, as the winners.
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Date: 2008-12-04 01:39 am (UTC)the CDs
the DVDs
the academic books
the library books
the craft supplies
the kitchen
So no big. ;)
I hope the economy will turn around as predicted by the middle of next year; it's already affecting my friends and family, but honestly, I know we have it better than a lot of people, especially retirees and people no longer able to work even if they wanted to--and if there were jobs. Also--that poor driver. I read about that and was horrified. Add to that the poor Wal-Mart worker who was killed in the freaking stampede on Black Friday... *sighs* Sometimes I really do despair for the human race.
On the other hand, there are people like Bev, and you, and many more who keep representin' for humanity, so I am grateful for that. :)