Thanks for clarifying the situation... Europe is also connected to your crisis and we have problems too but it is not as bad as you have.
Merlin On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:45 AM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, things are worse than they have been. However there are 78 million > homeowners in the US. No matter how bad a 1 million foreclosures sounds, > it's only 1.5% of the whole. In some cases these are tragedies in some cases > just deserts. > Some places it's worse than others. Particularly so in the areas where home > prices were booming. California is especially hard hit. But then > California always seems to go to excess. Yes things are bad, but not nearly > as bad as some would have us believe. > I find it interesting that government is actually cutting programs in > California, most places in such straits they just raise taxes and drive more > businesses out. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> In a message dated 11/30/2008 2:38:49 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Is it really that bad in US? Or these paranoia series are just some >> very well chosen photos to show problems there? >> >> Merlin >> >> PS: I have never been to US... >> >> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:52 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> http://www.mapphotography.com/Paranoia/pages/signs1.htm >>> >>> http://www.mapphotography.com/Paranoia/pages/signs2.htm >>> >>> Comments welcome. >>> >> >> =========== >> Yes. Approximately 1 million foreclosed on. 27% of that approximately in >> California. Supposedly 10,000 in my county alone. Latest figures I heard >> were 10 million unemployed (though it seems hard to believe and I can't >> swear to that, but figure its several million). Arnold is balancing CA's >> budget by taking away some benefits from disabled, taking away some >> teacher's pensions, cutting pensions, closing schools, and removing >> renters' credit. So CA, in particular, is hard hit. >> >> OTOH, newspapers and news magazines, and even TV, I suppose, are not >> putting faces to the figures (or store fronts to the figures). Not that I >> can see. It's like everyone is pretending it isn't happening and that >> everything is going along as normal. Which I find weird. >> >> My paranoia series is about more than that. But some of it is just to >> redress what I DON'T SEE (in media). >> >> Later, Marnie >> --------------------------------------------- >> Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. >> **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW >> AOL.com. >> (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002) >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > > -- > You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. > --Al Capone. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
