The title of the thread is 'Cure for the Recession'.
So, what is your cure then?
Where I live, the contractors are too busy to talk to me. Been waiting for a concrete fella to see about my basement since late May. With it minus 2 out right now, guess that season is over. Friend in the lumber yard is happy to see winter, so he can get a little time off - back to 40-45 hour weeks, was doing 55-65 hours a week all summer.
If you planned right, farming was good this past year. Next year looks - interesting, but that is next year. Need a new set of plans for next year...
The 2 multi-national main employers in town have laid off the temp folks, but this weekend my friends were working the weekend shift again to keep up - one has been working every other weekend for most of the last 18 months, he wouldn't mind a 40 hour week for a while.
Where my wife work, she was laid off last week, but other parts of the plant they are asking 10 hours a day, with 8 of them in a way too busy part of the plant not the normal area. So it's not gloom & doom, just normal seasonal business pattern for them.
Doom & gloom, doom & gloom you say.
What is your solution?
If everyone in my town listens to you, sure things will get bad real quick.
Doom & gloom.
No one gave a darn back in the 1980s when farmers were sinking away, or in the 1970's when Jimmy Carter made Brazil a major grain exporter. The hourly workers didn't sit around doom & gloom for us farmers. If they had, things would been worse, glad they didn't!
Things always go in cycles, not everyone is in the same cycle, prople need to be prepared & aware of what is around them & not to overjoyous when times are good, nor too gloom & doom when things aren't so good. It's human nature, but we gotta fight that.
We won't solve problems in a week or a month, but if we just cry about it we might not solve them ever.
Gloom & doom.
What's your solution? Wait for more gloom & doom? Sure doesn't sound any good to me.
(Buzz - not picking on you, I enjoy your posts, and sure some folks have it bad right now. My comments are general, not picking on you - you just offer a well presented message to reply to. Hard to experess things well in a short forum message - just conversation over coffee on a very cold day....)
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