AT&T to cut 12,000 jobs, 4 percent of staff (AP)
Nightmare on Wall Street continues (CNN/Money)
Wal-Mart Shoppers Trample Man to Death (Time)
Colleges see grim future under budget cuts (Courier Journal)
Unemployment jumps to a 16-year high (AP)
November: Most jobs lost in 34 years (CNN)
$1 trillion rescue? (CNN/Money)
Amid Foreclosures, A Rise In Homeless Students (NPR)
America’s Looming Health Care Disaster (ABC)
The Recession Is Made Official — and Stocks Take a Dive (Time)
General Motors cuts another 2,000 jobs (CNN/Money)
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How you holding up? Things going okay? Is your heart and mind at rest?
Economic and societal worries and woes notwithstanding, have yourself a pleasant weekend and a relaxed and enjoyable holiday system.
Tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free...
3 comments:
Well our retirement savings have lost about 1/3 of their value, but we're still beating the market, and fortunately we're only in our mid-30's and stocks are cheap now. Buy! Buy! Buy! :)
And academia is, fortunately, pretty recession-proof, so I can't complain.
But the rest of Michigan is in seriously horrible shape and has been for about 7 years -- it's just taken this long for anyone outside of the state to notice.
The trampling story sounds like it should be a really dark satire, rather than the truth.
Bad enough that they killed the guy. But when they got upset because the managers tried to shut down the store....
I AM happy, and content, and at peace, for the most part. Not thinking too much about the fact that I work in a town whose entire economic health is dependent upon a Chrysler manufacturing plant.
Whatever happens, at this point is far beyond my control. I am focusing on little things, like the way my kids and I decorated the house today, the peaceful snowfall and crisp cold afterward. I am grateful for a job, for friends at home and all the folks I've met around the country via the internet. I am at peace because there are many good things in my life right now, and when I think of the future - regardless of all the big-picture bad news - I see good things.
I'm neither a blind optimist nor delusional. I'm just . . . happy and at peace.
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