[FormerLurker]

What are you talking about? Checked the unemployment numbers lattely?

DO you believe everything you see on TV? Are YOU a software engineer?

[RipSawyer]

What are you talking about? Checked the unemployment numbers lattely?

DO you believe everything you see on TV? Are YOU a software engineer?

I have recemtly started asking people in a casual way whether they believe that the economy is improving. I don't think I have gotten a yes yet. I still say that all I can see is negatives. Last year was supposed to be such a great year for new car sales but anyone with a brain could see that the sales were bought with special financing and rebates. Eventually even that had to be counterproductive and it looks like the time has arrived. I say batten the hatches folks, it is about to get rougher than anyone has imagined. We are about to pay the price for decades of living in lala land and thinking results can be seperated from causes. Guess what, the free bubble up and rainbow stew are just about gone.

[dinodino]

Unemployment is much higher in IT than in other sectors. Look up from the computer monitor once in a while...