Posted on 11/06/2009 6:07:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Video: Bernanke's War on Trade and the US Dollar
And by the time they started hiring again, those 'extra duties' usually didn't go away, they just became part of your job, because after all, you'd showed them you could do it, why hire somebody else?
I guess I was one of the lucky ones, I went through 4 or 5 of these business cycles and never got let go, and I retired on my own schedule, but I can't say I miss this kind of thing.
Look, I’m not saying we’ve go no problems, and there is NO freakin’ way that I’m a fan of Obamanomics. That said, the 90% of people that have jobs are still spending money. My point was and is that productivity goes up at this point in the economic cycle. And we’ve been through this cycle a bunch of times. Can we double dip or crash and burn? Yes, we can. But right now, unemployment is up and so is productivity. It’s a NON STORY that the MSM are trying to turn into a story.
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