Is it really all that bad?

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-04-2008
Is it really all that bad?
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Tue, 03-24-2009 - 10:08am

I just read someone's post and it sounded so hopeless with regard to the economy.


Folks - 90% of people ARE STILL employed!




iVillage Member
Registered: 05-18-2005
Tue, 03-24-2009 - 8:04pm

Hi, I live in MI, and it has been and is really bad here.

Jan
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-10-2003
Tue, 03-24-2009 - 8:22pm

I think the original poster was just saying its important to realize that focusing too much on the negative sometimes results in us not seeing the good things!

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-17-2003
Tue, 03-24-2009 - 8:27pm
As you and the other poster pointed out quite succinctly, these are bad times.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2007
Tue, 03-24-2009 - 9:07pm

As one of those in the 10% who have lost a job please excuse me if my outlook is not as rosy. I lost my job in December and was only last week that I was hired. It is part time but should go to full time I hope. Did I sit at home and wallow in self pity every day? No. Did I sit on my behind collecting unemployment because I would make more? No. I was out putting in applications, sending in resumes, and going over the want ads. I try to have a good outlook and yes, this did make me really take a hard look at my spending. Thank goodness I do have an emergency fund. I hope that this doesn't offend anyone but not everyone is in a good situation. I do have faith that things will get better. Just my opinion.

KRG

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-13-2009
Tue, 03-24-2009 - 9:29pm

{{{{{{{{Stacy}}}}}} ;)

~~Maggie~~

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-28-2006
Tue, 03-24-2009 - 10:01pm

It is that bad. Have you looked at all the houses that have red foreclosure signs on the windows, that are for sale or rent? The families pulling their kids out of all activities because they had to give a car up and are now a one car family? The kids that are getting free lunches now? These are changes I see in our schools, our neighborhoods.


The media is simply reporting what is going on.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-17-2003
Tue, 03-24-2009 - 10:07pm
Hugs to you Stacy.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-22-2008
Tue, 03-24-2009 - 10:23pm

It's kind of pointless to get into these tussels on a message board, and I am a pacific kind of person.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-22-1999
Tue, 03-24-2009 - 10:44pm

Hi, Folks,


This all made me think of an article I read at the gym in this month's Town and Country magazine aout good manners in the recession....please go to the library and see if you can find it.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-17-2003
Wed, 03-25-2009 - 12:18am
Well, I hope you feel better now!