Jim Dator wrote:
>
> I concur with Eva's charactearization of the employment situation in the
> US. The "high levels of employment" found currently in the US are a cruel
> hoax at best and cover up a present and impending tragedy, more
> generally.
May I jump on this bandwaggon? (Or maybe heap more rubbish on this
garbage truck?)
I think the current "prosperity" is a cover up for an impending tragedy:
Inflation is *low*? But gasoline proces are the lowest in almost 20
years. Christmas 1981, I was so impressed by finding $1.139 per gallon
regular gas at a cut-rate gas station in Albuquerque New Mexico (a
low-price gas area in any case), that I made a little sculpture
commemmorating the event, which I still have. In the past few weeks I
have, for the first time since, seen gas prices
equal to or *LOWER* than that,
and in the area where I live (Southern New York, Western Connecticut),
where gas prices are generally *higher*.
That kind of "prosperity" does not make *me* feel secure! I think
the main thing that's really "up" is what stock brokers call
"churning": artificially generating unnecessary financial transactons,
each of which provides service fees (etc.) to somebody.
\brad mccormick
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