Someone got a good deal on this 25 HP compressor

Wait till January...Christmas is going to be very very rough on retailers..many do 50-75% of their total years profit at Christmas..and thousands will go out of business.

Their employees will go on unemployment..and the people that serve those people will have to start laying off..all the way down the line to the trucking companies that haul the merchandise.......

It should be a very interesting spring this coming year.....3-10 million more on unemployment/welfare..more houses going into default....

And the ammunition manufactures are working 24 hours a day making ammo that is still hard as hell to buy.

Its going to be a very very good year for undertakers

Gunner

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno

Shrug...when all the Leftwingers have been bulldozed into mass graves..there will be plenty of work for everyone else.

Its coming

Gunner

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno

Blink blink...you must vote Democrap if you can post that with a straight face.

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno

Of course they have. Obama simply pushed them off the ledge.

And its still a long long way to the bottom.

Gunner

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno

I try to approach life as an analyst, as opposed to a partisan. Sometimes I succeed at that, and sometimes I do not.

My analyst side of the brain describes current events as "continued destruction of imaginary wealth". When I mean by this is that the trade deficit and collective borrowing by the US affected prices, as well as incomes, in a way that made us think that we are wealthier than we are.

However, in the long run, for a nation, wealth is defined by its productive and income generating capacity, and not by asset prices. The capacity lagged this increae in perceived wealth.

Now we are descending back to the reality, which is that we never were as wealthy as we thought in 2007.

While the perceived wealth stemming from asset prices has evaporated in year 2008, there may be more to this wealth destruction that would eliminate the ongoing deficits. Its effect will be on exchange rate of the dollar and prices of imported goods.

That would, hopefully, being us back to reality and would be a healthful, although moderately painful, adjustment.

I thought you valued "human life"?

"It's not the fall that hurts, it's the sudden stop at the bottom"

Keep on digging and the bottom gets softer.

You have to do something fast with all the bodies from the pandemic, however I'd expect the mix to be pretty balanced with left wingers (PYVs who believe vaccines cause autism) and right wingers (religious nuts afraid of vaccines), and relatively few of the sane vaccinated centrist folks. It might restore some sanity to the US.

Exactly my thinking. Well put.

I would not entirely agree with that.

Price is what you pay, value is what you get. Some things may be 1) worth more to me than to other bidders or 2) Worth more to people who are unable to bid.

Exactly

I am also a sucker for welders and certain other things. I can hardly pass them by, plus I know how to test them, I like to play with them etc. What also help is that for welders beyond the obvious, people do not even know what they do etc.

The bottom getting softer doesn't help if you're at terminal velocity. Digging deeper just provides more time to inflate a parachute if you can figure out how to do it. I'm not convinced anyone knows where the rip-cord is.

Make sure not to take that gun to Hawaii.

I have not done anything that spectacular, but I put almost 100% of my money in stocks last March. Now I have reduced that percentage a little.

My luggage is already overloaded with SCUBA gear.

Your buying/selling used equipment helps the economy at some level, and the new tooling you buy for the machines you keep helps further.

Let the Record show that Gunner Asch on or about Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:10:56 -0700 did write/type or cause to appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Not to mention Doctors. Texas put a cap on "pain and suffering" awards, and the doctors are moving.

If only I could stand the humidity ...

pyotr

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

Let the Record show that Gunner Asch on or about Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:15:41 -0700 did write/type or cause to appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

When the "disaffected youths" decided to fly some Aircraft into buildings in an effort at "Manmade Disturbances", one friend of mine took a look at the economy and declared bankruptcy. Why wait for the layoff? Another, took a look at his burn rate, at how much venture capital he had, and the possibility of things picking back up to just 'bad' and closed the doors on his startup. No sense hoping for a turn around in that climate. I'm sure there were hundreds of businesses in Sept of '08 who said "things are tight, but we may make it.." who realized what a Democrat party lock on the White House, and Congress meant for business and the economy and said "That's it, we're done, we're not going to see things turn around before the money runs out."

- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

Yes, several big new medical centers just built or under construction to open soon around here.

The humidity is fine in the DFW area, nothing like hotlanta. Good weather, good economy, low cost of living, no state income tax, etc.

EARTH TO PETE: It was all about keeping $9 dollar a gallon gas farther into the future. But, now, it's coming. $82 today.

Steve

For just me, some people are not entitled to the oxygen they consume.

And don't get me started on the CO2 they emit.

Steve

I would welcome a pandemic with a 60% fatality rate right now.

Nope, try again.