Re: Ot - Not Political - Economic Meltdown


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On Oct 10, 11:30 pm, "Ed Huntress" <huntre...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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We're all running around like beheaded chickens and screaming for our
mommas. d8-)

Nah, your not. Your venting in newsgroups, like the rest of us. Liked
some of your stuff in a previous topic, about your idea of the government
being for the best interests of the country. Nice one. The Romans were
pretty good at it, for several thousand years.


Andrew VK3BFA.

You, too, Andrew. You may want to re-read _On the Beach_. There are lots
of
tips for Australians in there. I'm re-reading _Only Yesterday_, and
trying
to judge if I can grow enough rutabagas in my backyard to survive. Maybe
I
can raise some rabbits...

--
Ed Huntress

Mm, yes well - you covered a few things there Ed, and as I know your a
Smart *** as we say here, not sure if your taking the piss or
what. (Translate that sentence if you can)

I just have my tongue in my cheek. d8-) As George said, most of us are
hardly feeling this meltdown -- yet. There are still mortgage companies and
car dealers advertising loans on good terms, for example. The shelves at the
supermarkets are still well-stocked. If one has a lot of money, whether
privately invested or in a retirement account, they're feeling it in a big
way. Otherwise, not. That is, those who haven't lost their jobs, and those
numbers aren't really very large. It's absolutely dominating our news, but
it's like watching a documentary movie about the Amazon jungle for most of
us -- colorful critters, biting insects, rampant rot. BTW, gasoline has
dropped in price in my neighborhood, over the last few weeks, from $3.69/US
gallon to $2.95. That eases some of the pain.


Whats a rutabaga? - is it edible - is it similar to Brussel Sprouts
(which are not)

I *love* Brussels sprouts. A rutabaga, also known as a yellow turnip, is a
cross between a cabbage and a regular ("white," or "purple-top") turnip. I
know that sounds like crossing a dog and a cat, but that's what the books
say. They're pretty decent root vegetables. They used to be popular in
Germany but they got sick of them when that was all they had to eat, so they
don't eat them anymore. They aren't all that popular here anymore, either,
but they're a traditional root vegetable in New England. I'm from a New
England family and we use them in pot roast. They also have a funny name so
they're good for food jokes.

Rabbits - speak to Don Forman about this, he hunts them in neighbours
backyards, manages to shoot them with Deadly Accuracy before they can
tear him to pieces..

<g> I used to hunt them before school, when I was 12 and 13 years old. Now I
just chase them out of my garden.


On the Beach - a good read, by a British author, about how the Yanks
and the Russians screwed the world. Actually, all of Neville Shutes
books are pretty good - "Trustee from the Toolroom" has some nice
engineering passages in it. And its a Good Read. Its getting really
hard to find a good Trashy Novel - the sort you read for relaxation
and entertainment. I seem to be reading more and more metal related
books these days.

Theres never been a shortage of apocryphal novels - what pisses me off
is when they run to several volumes, you get sucked right in, and
then........the library doesn't have the last/latest one. (See Trashy
Novel above - very rarely are they good enough to actually buy(instead
of books on Metalworking))

How come economics has its own language? - is it to hoodwink and flim-
flam us peasants, my budget is what I have left in me wallet after I
pay the bills. Don't have any debt, dont have a credit card (but do
have a debit card). This probably means I am weird. So be it. And I
know I am out of touch with Contemporary Economics, the stock market
seems to be run by people who base their decisions on reading Chicken
Entrails each morning.

Economics is weird because it is complicated and not nearly as instinctively
knowable as most of us think. My son is an econ major in college, in his
junior year. He's on his third semester of calculus and his first of
statistics; he has another semester of statistics and then econometrics,
which is all math, to go before he gets his degree.

That's as much math as I had as an engineering major, and I had almost
completed the math requirement before I changed majors to political science.
So economics, today, is pretty heavy-duty stuff. It's also full of
surprises. As I mentioned in another thread, money is not what most people
think it is, for example. That's why most of us don't have a lot of it.


Someone once said "If you cant write a business proposal on one side
of a *** of A4 paper, your probably bullshitting"

The Emperor Has No Clothes - how come its taken so long to see this?

Vegemite - an acquired taste, like American bourbon. But doesn't leave
you feeling crook in the guts next morning.

Who knows where all this economic stuff is going Ed - I dont. But as
the old Chinese curse says
"May you live in interesting times"

Uh, yes, I think we are. <g> Thanks for your concern and your kind thoughts,
Andrew. Don't worry too much about us. We probably won't tank. Of course, if
we do, we're probably taking you with us. d8-)

--
Ed Huntress


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