You all should be ashamed of yourselves!

“That is what I thought!”

“This is great news. Let's see if it continues. Unemployment needs to drop in order for us to making real recovery. Otherwise, not too bad for a situation that's been in the dumper for about three years. But just remember, one good quarter dosen't make a recovery.

"Although the nation's payrolls grew by 57,000 in September - the first increase in eight months - the economy needs to add a lot more jobs than that each month to drive down the 6.1 percent unemployment rate, analysts have said........."”

“BTW - 2.7 millions jobs have been lost since March 2001”

“LMAO!!!! More..More..More... Maybe we can create some new government programs to create more jobs?”

“It seems like many of those lost jobs are turning up in India.”

“You're right. I'm ashamed.”

“Ya should be ashamed Ghoulie, for votin' for that no-good.”

“My stocks are up by an ave. of 20% this year and my company stock is up over 70%, but I'm not convinced that anything has really changed for the better. With the low interest rates people are borrowing money and spending it with wild abandon and it's going to catch back up to the economy eventually.”

“Big F-ing deal UpUrs! Anything looks like UP from the gutter. People have lost Trillions since 2000 and the markets and indeces are finally starting to move up after being driven to the lowest leevels since the mid-90's. Now we're leveraging this recovery to the max. the economy smells like 80's Reganomics all over again! Prepare to get "trickled" on!”

“Here, save this article for your grandchildren!”

“Please who do you think put us there! Spare me your BS!!!”

“Are you talking to yourself again?”

“Back off a sec waerowolf. Dubya is making more Democrats than, well, the Democrats ever could.

Healthy Forests
Healthy Economy
Healthy Skies
Healthy Airports
And soon ...
Healthy People”

“ Close your freaking tags.”

“Trying to prove a strong economy with daily market results is as futile as trying to prove a bad economy with daily market results.”

“Yeah, but like the weather, it redistributes a lot of hot air.”

“Good one Nigal.

Here's another from the UpUrs' Theory of Economics:
"Attribute good economic news to the current adminstration; blame the previous one for the bad news."

Works every time!”

“Passin' the buck”

“Whats up with the "bloody mary puke" colored font?”

“Please! Don't waste my time! Lets just take in this good fortune and give thanks to a great leader in the office!”

“pssst! Sell!”

“My portfolio has increased significantly in the past six months.

My company is doing record business. 2003 will be the best year in the company's history.”

“Another good fortune to attribute to the Man!”

“You have convinced me UpUrs. I love Republicans! Where do I sign up?”

“____________________Sign Here!”

“er.. Sorry WK, We don't want you.”

“Repugnicans and Dummycrats”

“Why not? I think Mr. Bush is a great man. I want to get on board with the winning team.

It hurts that you don't want me.”

“Hey bacpac, so did mine. It's just about back up to where it was in 1998!”

“The highest growth rate since 1984, huh?

Can't wait for the repeat of October 1987!”

“You must have a better investment advisor than I did. I have not been able to recover to the levels before the economy took a dive Clinton's last two years.”

“Lets all give a big round of applause for the Prez (Bush)!”

“Clap, Clap, Clap”

“I wished I would have been one of the lucky people to vote for him.”

“I, for one, am ashamed of myself :^P”

“I second that Tom.”

“Holy Cow! Beef Prices May Rise 75%


7:35 a.m. EST October 30, 2003 - Get ready for a shock at the meat counter -- prices are about to soar.




Beef wholesale prices have almost doubled and retailers like Jim McCaffery say, unfortunately, the costs will have to be passed on to the consumer eventually.
McCaffery said the price shoppers will have to pay would go up 50 to 75 percent.

"We're experiencing a shortage of cattle. The farmers are asking for more money because he knows we're in a shortage situation, therefore we pay higher prices for cattle and we pass this higher cost along to retailers," said Rick Fetrow of Tyson Foods.

The shortage is because cattlemen were losing money about three years ago, so they decided to cut back production. Then there was a mad cow scare in Canada.

"So that did two things. One: Beef started to be imported into Canada from the United States, and Canada was not exporting to the United States, so that created a huge demand," McCaffery said.

Add to that the fact that beef consumption is up about 10 percent because of the popular high-protein diets, and you have what some have called a perfect storm for beef prices.

McCaffery says we'll see an increase of $3- or $4-a-pound, and there may be a shortage of the choice meats. He also said the price hikes could spill over to other items in the meat counter.

"Consumers are going to be faced with higher beef prices -- not only higher beef prices, but as this thing rolls out we could possibly see higher beef prices, higher pork prices and higher poultry prices as a result," Fetrow said.”

“Given the huge deficit spending, the war, and the fact that we are coming off a very long sustained slow down and job loss... we should be seeing big growth numbers for a while - and will have to if we are going to make up for the jobs lost so far. Hopefully that will happen.”

“This thread sucks.”

“yep”

“Phagrus I heard you do as well.”

“I wonder, realy, how much "recovery" would we have to get back up to where we were before the economy went south? Only then could it be called true progress.....

Don't forget to adjust for inflation as well.”

“We should all just stop pi$$ing and moaning and be grateful that we have our computers and internet connections. Nobody posting here is starving and if they were they should have stopped paying their provider and hocked their computer.
...bunch o' dang fogies complaining about this and that. Jeebs!”

“Thank god, that only took a bazillion closing span tags to fix.

My connection and computer is how I keep from starving.”

“Remind me again about the perils of the national debt--- tight credit and soaring interest rates?
In the 60s and 70s, wasn't 6% joblessness considered full employment?
And if I recall, if you sat tight through 1987, the DOW was up slightly.”

“"Two people who caused a security lockdown at a U.S. House office building had a toy gun, according to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's office."

Homeland Security at its best!


Watch CNN or log on to http://CNN.com (AOL Keyword: CNN) for the latest news.”

“Let's see, prices going up, salary flat, ... yes, I have a lot to be grateful for. Wooo friggin Hooooo!”

“That's the Healthy Security Initiative WK, like the Healthy Forest Initiative and the Healthy Soldier Initiative.”

“I've heard people complain about a lot of things recently, but the inflation rate hasn't been one of them.”