On Jan 6, 7:01*pm, The Daring Dufas
wrote:
On 1/6/2012 11:58 AM, willshak wrote:





The Daring Dufas wrote the following:
On 1/5/2012 2:44 PM, Existential Angst wrote:
"The Daring wrote in message
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On 1/5/2012 9:20 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
I talked to an appliance repair lady who thinks the economy
is picking up.

I think she said that when it's really dead, people do wtihout.
If the laundry is broken, they take wet clothes to the laundro-
mat to dry, or wash them and take em home wet.

Moderate economy, people repair stuff. (home repair).

Good economy, people buy new.

I'm not sure where we are, now, but I'm really struggling.
Me, I think the economy is still bad. Not many people
repairing. I talked to a contractor (retired), yesterday.
He says the economy is so bad, that builders have gone
into remodelling, to keep the cash flow.

The contents of pawn shops are another good economic indicator. ^_^

YET, college enrollment sets new records every year. WTF????

Don't know how the stats are compiled tho -- if they include ivy,
public/private, on-line, and these dinky for-profit ripoffs that
proliferate/advertise all over.

If the stats are "legit", I find this surprising. They say unemployed
people "go back to school", but I wonder if that's really true or
part of
the current stats. visavis "retraining".
I'd like the stats on high-schoolers going to legit 4 year schools,
and sep
stats for junior colleges. And trade schools.

Personally, I think 4 year colleges are highly over-rated, except as the
"entre" they provide for having that piece of paper -- whose value
varies
tremendously with the school, ivy obviously being the better entre.

But still, something of a benchmark, for, well, something.....

Do you trust Affirmative Action college degrees? I've tried to carry
on an intelligent conversation with some recent college graduates and
it's
quite evident that they only understand about every other word I say and
I'm not trying to use a very advanced vocabulary with them. o_O

TDD

Speaking of affirmative action.
I haven't eaten in at MacDonalds in the last couple of decades, but I
remember they used to have written on their paper place mats,
"We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer".
Isn't that a dichotomy?

I The UK, they call it "Positive Discrimination". ^_^

We have all sorts of **** over here Duf. You would never believe it.