[April Lexington]

January and February will be bloody as businesses go into defensive mode to preserve margins in 2010. Layoffs will be huge as ALL nonproductive workers are cut. Only the best producers will be kept AND if that stupid health bill passes, businesses will lay off to cover the increased medical insurance costs. Jobs will become MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD! (Whatever that means...)

[Crusher138]

Absolutely. Speaking of non-productive workers, the national labs out here (Federal Gov’t Jobs) are hiring. I have it on good authority that ALL federal agencies have been told to go on a hiring binge to help keep the unemployment numbers down. Since most Fed jobs are for life, this will make the deficit even worse in the long run.

I pray for a major leadership change in ‘10 and ‘12.