Well, I'm in northern Indiana. The local paper has been running stories and photos of folks selling off their personal belongings and stuff for money. Thats in Elkhart County and surrounding areas. If I had to go by that alone? But then again, they say that the jobless claims are down at the same time folks unemployment benefits have expired at the same time we hear nationally the the recession has ended but unemployment is still moving upward. All makes for an odd combination if you ask me. I've noticed at the grocery stores for instance, my bill has skyrocketed at the cashiers, but no one is saying inflation is on the rise. And this past week we laid off 15 more guys in my group, guys in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and Texas that I know of, and I know that there were more from other states, but no one's told me where though. I was told that we didn't lose anyone in Michigan this time, and that's excellent for them if I heard correctly. They don't need anymore layoffs up there, but neither does anyone else. They've been hit hard enough in Michigan. I'm still working with rumors of another layoff around December, and its getting harder to find things for my crew to do, but I'm keeping them busy as I can. doing whatever I can to keep customers. I work for AT&T, the same company that used to have the CEO that is now the CEO of GM and doing all of those commercials. True, the economy's taken a large hit, but one thing is for sure, if that guy does for GM what he did for us at AT&T and when we were SBC, those folks over at GM had better be looking for new careers. I'm not joking that every time I see that I guy in a commercial, I honest to God wonder if he wasn't put there to polish them off. I drive paid off Cummins Dodges, so I've got no horse to ride in that race though. And not trying to start any stuff as a Dodge guy for the last 20 or so years, but GO FORD GO!!! I hear sales were up either 12% or 17% for them (I forget which), down for both GM and Chrysler. GO FORD GO, and I don't even own one and never have, but if the day comes that I have to buy a new one, it'll be Ford unless they get taken over too, and if that happens, I'll start piecing together scrappers from the junk yard as long as I can scrapper parts. Grin.
Seems to me that if we're going to turn this thing around, its the folks like you and me, the common folk that are going to have to turn it around, fighting against a whole lot of hurdles laid down at our feet. Good luck everyone, the leaves are turning red on my trees.
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