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[Gil White <gil.white AT xplornet.com>]

I'm not disagreeing with you, I was just commenting that in 4 years time I 
hope we can look back and all that we have to complain about is whether or 
not he legally qualified for president. 

I was reading recently that up here (in Canada ) our GDP ( Gross Domestic 
Product ) had slipped into the negative about 3 months ago for the first time 
since the early 1990's and so far we were down something like 3% from a year 
ago. It went on to mention that by comparison our GDP had dropped 30% during 
the Great Depression. That's 10x worse then what were experiencing now and 
implies probably two to three times whatever unemployment number you want to 
use.

On the plus side, if there is such a thing, there are a number of kids and 
folks in their 20's who have to do without for the first time in their lives. 
If things don't get a lot worse over the next 6 months it might be a life 
lesson that was needed.

Gil

On Jul 22, 2009, lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com wrote: 
There are lots and lots of people not included in the 'official' 
unemployment figures. The 'real' unemployment rate, if you include part-time 
or people like me, who are discouraged and only half-heartedly looking for 
work, is already 16.4%. No matter how much the administration says 'it's 
working', there are a lot of us who don't think so. 
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/05-0

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gil White" <gil.white AT xplornet.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Has anyone heard about this?


>I just hope that in 4 years the worst anyone will have to say is that his 
>citizenship is still in question.
>
> I suspect that many of us really don't want to live through an actual 
> great depression. 10-15% unemployment is scary, 20-30% would take another 
> world war to bring us out of it.
>
> Gil
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> On Jul 22, 2009, lurine AT com-pair.net wrote:
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> I now withdraw that cause I think by
> the end of four years we are going to wish we had him back!
>
> Lynda
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