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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

>From what I can see the state of TN average unemployment is 10.8
I could not find a listing for Greene County.  Some of the counties bordering 
Greene have 11.something can't remember the exact number.   There are houses 
for sale listed on every street I drive in the town/county.  A friend of mine 
in Real-estate has made one sale in 8 months it was on a low cost home not a 
mega mansion.
Not much changes for me except that I do not eat out, and I try and conserve 
gasoline, not easy for me as a trip to a gas station is at least a 10 mile 
drive.  It is a 26 mile drive to the farmers market but at least the food is 
fresh, organic and it's a great place to talk to friends.  My own garden has 
been pretty sparse, we have had so much rain that the leaf cover is dense, 
dense, and more dense, so I am getting very little in the way of enough sun 
to grow anything!  Going to start my fall crops and hope the leaves will fall 
early and crops will keep on growing through the cold weather.  My sun 
coverage in the winter is great!  :)))  Wish I had a level spot to put a 
green house!
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
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  From: EarthNSky 
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  Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 1:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [Homestead] Censorship coming




  Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:

  > I wonder, though...Biden is saying that the 'recovery' is working. I 
don't 
  > see it here. We still have no jobs,;stores and factories closed; houses 
not 
  > selling, so people can't even leave to find a job (many families have one 
  > person living/working far away just to keep afloat). Of course, this area 
  > has been in a recession for years, but it's only gotten worse in the past 
  > year. Is the economy improving anywhere?
  > 
  > Lynn Wigglesworth

  Not here in my area.  Unemployment seems to be getting worse as more 
  stores and businesses close.  There are still pages and pages of 
  bankruptcies and foreclosures in the paper and yet no real jobs 
  advertised-only the work at home scams.  Now, having said that, I can 
  say that in the relatively new neighborhood where my folks live, there 
  were about 8 empty houses, now there is only one.  I think that is due 
  to special loans and the first time buyer program that Obama promoted. 
  I personally don't view home sales as a sign of economic recovery, 
  especially if that is due to special financing.  The housing crisis came 
  to be because of 'special financing', so having more houses occupied 
  just doesn't spell 'recovery' in my book.

  There is a town, down in middle Georgia, where a large KIA plant is due 
  to open.  KIA has created a lot of jobs and the little town  of West 
  Point is calling itself KIAville and has become somewhat of a boom town, 
  getting lots of media attention.  Surrounding areas are riding KIA's 
  coattails, too.

  Georgia has an average 10.1% unemployment for June, up from 9.6 in May. 
    They say that we will be at 12% or more statewide before the end of 
  the year.  I live in one of the worst areas of my state for jobs.  I 
  looked on the GDOL website and I see that Atlanta is at 9.6% and the 
  Dalton area is at 12.6%, down from about 14.8 in March as you can see on 
  this bar graph.

  http://www.dol.state.ga.us/pdf/pr/lf_dalton.pdf

  B
  -- 
  "Never expect magic from no where"  Baringo (Kenyan) working motto
  http://erthnsky.blogspot.com/
  EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia, USA
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