The misbegotten waif thread a/k/a The Fray V2

[Scott DeWar]

Columbia Mo is 6.2 % but I don't know how. There are a god awful lot of pwople at the job searh place. lots of temps but nothing permenant , so that should not really count as those are 'fireable' with a moments notice. 0 job security.

as for the post at 7:07 am, I had to be at a job sight at 8:30 for a whopping 3 hours of work today. woot

 

[Relique du Madde]

Here in Utah we are actually at 7.6%, or thereabouts. So we're actually below the average for the country. California's economy is really in the shambles...there has been some talk of the state declaring bankruptcy. Not sure how that would work. But something needs to be done there for sure.

And I love the sign!

We are heading into bankruptcy because our state has been mismanaged since the internet boom of the 90s. Instsead of voting in people who actually know how to finance anything we consistanty elected people who think the solution to a balanced budget is to tax everything until people and buisness leave and then hand out blank checks and raises to your supporters.

Things have gotten so bad that we are now being compaired to greece.

 

[Dragonwriter]

Sadly I as a great movie go'er will not be going to see Thor

Reason: It is released as 3-D only and I am not into that anymore. If they gave me a choice I would go see it for sure, but making me pay the extra and then in my experience the 3-D will be limited I see this as a ploy to make money the movie companies don't need.

I'm pretty sure they're still releasing it in normal-view (though perhaps not quite as widely). 3D is just the thing they're pushing, as with all new/revamped technology.

 

[renau1g]

We are heading into bankruptcy because our state has been mismanaged since the internet boom of the 90s. Instsead of voting in people who actually know how to finance anything we consistanty elected people who think the solution to a balanced budget is to tax everything until people and buisness leave and then hand out blank checks and raises to your supporters.

Things have gotten so bad that we are now being compaired to greece.

Well, California is a way bigger economy than Greece. I believe it's somewhere around the 8th biggest economy in the whole world if it was measured on its own and around 13% of the US economy...please don't go bankrupt...we don't need another recession. Sadly, Ontario is actually in worse shape than California if you can believe it, mostly on the crushing weight of our public health plan eating around 1/2 our provincial tax revenue. It's only going to get worse here when the boomers get older and stop working, shrinking the tax base and placing even more burden on our health care system. Ahhh...can't wait. The difference here is that Canada doesn't require out provinces to run balanced budgets so we can just get into large deficits and count on the Feds to bail us out I guess (being the largest economy at around 30% of the national GDP). We're too big to fail...

In 2008, when measured as a percentage of GDP, California had the 6th highest tax burden of the fifty states.

 

[Scott DeWar]

where does Missouri fit in that?

 

[Rhun]

Well, California is a way bigger economy than Greece. I believe it's somewhere around the 8th biggest economy in the whole world if it was measured on its own and around 13% of the US economy...please don't go bankrupt...we don't need another recession.

I'm still not sure the current recession is over and/or actually improving. Honestly, I still have a sneaking suspicion things may get worse before they get better. I've got my fingers crossed that doesn't happen.

 

[Relique du Madde]

It is true that California's economy is bigger then greese, but our pension obligiations are getting to the point of Greecian insolvency. According to one number I heard if every one in the public system were to retire today the state would be in the hole 500 BILLION due to unfunded pension obligations alone. Considering that California has a annual defecit of 15 Billion I'm pretty sure taxes, additional loans, bonds, or budget tricks won't be able to make a dent in our debt, so we are pretty much in a continual state of praying things don't get worse cause the moment it does...

 

[renau1g]

I'm still not sure the current recession is over and/or actually improving. Honestly, I still have a sneaking suspicion things may get worse before they get better. I've got my fingers crossed that doesn't happen.

Yes, double dip recession could be very ugly. With Oil/gas prices spiking again, huge inflation in food costs, minimal growth in the economy/wage rates and spiraling national (and in some cases State/Provincial) debts, and our interest rates at historic lows we could end up with a long and painful period of stagflation (Stagflation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

[MENTION=49929]Scott DeWar[/MENTION] - people employed part time are no deemed unemployed for those stats, underemployed, yes, but not unemployed.

[MENTION=42169]Relique du Madde[/MENTION] - you are right on the jobless rate, it wouldn't include those not actively looking for a job, so whether idly rich, retired, or those who grew disenfranchised with not finding a job and have given up looking.

 

[HolyMan]

I'm pretty sure they're still releasing it in normal-view (though perhaps not quite as widely). 3D is just the thing they're pushing, as with all new/revamped technology.

If they do then it probably won't be around here. Both Green Hornet and Rango were 3D only here when they could have easily been 2D.

Check this out...


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnSicg5eRsI]YouTube - Green Lantern - Official Wondercon Footage [HD][/ame]



HM

 

[Relique du Madde]

I'll probably wait for it to be on dvd or in the Budget Theater which is pretty much the same thing I'm doing with Thor. I means seriously 10.75-12 bucks for non-3d tickets (or 15.00 + 3.00 for 3d glasses), 4.50 for a 32 ounce soda and but load of money for stale popcorn or a rubbery hot dog is too much.