Article on economy--bad news

Hi wynderer, thanks for your post.     Yes, it is quite a shocking comparison how different Americans are versus other cultures.

Yes, I see the same thing.  I work at a hotel now and woo...let me tell you.   I'm not so shocked I guess at how miserable so many people are that I deal with, I guess it's understandable in this culture and reality.   But what shocks me is how rude and miserable they are to others.  How quick they are to pass it along to those around them like a virus, trying to bring everybody else down.   Like you pointed out.......these people have it all.   So in a way they don't have a RIGHT to be that miserable.  There's something inherantly wrong about how mean, nasty, unhappy and miserable they are despite being surrounded by so much.   This is something that one of the Russian girls specifically mentioned to me.   To paraphrase what she wrote: (this is near exact of what she said)    "In our country, we are born naked.  We have nothing.   We will never get anything, we know that.  We will never have money.  Life is a struggle for us.   But you...in America, you have everything.  You have anything you want, all the time...."  She went on to explain that this is the cause for that fundamental difference in Americans versus much of the rest of the world.

It's amazing though, for a country that has it all, how miserable everybody is.   Obviously something's missing.  It's not hard to figure out what.

Here's something odd relating to the economy.  I came across it last week, but didn't think to post it here.   But the U.S. is looking to extend Daylight Savings Time to start month earlier, in March, and to last a month later, into November.   Personally, I like the idea, and would be all for it.   The reasoning behind it however has to do with the economy.   They reason that by staying lighter later, it could save tens of thousands of barrells of oil, as well as allowing downtown urban areas to have extend shopping, and stores staying open later which would otherwise close.   So.............economy stimulation.

I should have copied the link last week as soon as I saw it, now I can't find it.  The only thing I could come up with now is this:

http://geography.about.com/b/a/160525.htm

It mentions the oil aspect to DST, but not the part about businesses being able to stay open later, and people shopping in urban areas.

You just know that the U.S. is in trouble when they're coming up with stuff like this to stimulate the economy.   !!  The U.S. 25, 30 years ago would never have had to dream up schemes to stimulate people to shop, let alone worry about saving oil.    It's a changed world, and a completely different country we're living in now.

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Anybody else getting this message? I've found this story elsewhere and every link to it, including on goolge, results in the same message. Weird.

Did, tho, manage to access the article via a cached page of google.

Anybody? Would like to know if it's just me, or if it's been "censored". Pls and thanx.

Thanks Wandering. Strange that I'm still getting the same message. Tho' it's not a complete write-off since I can read/access it via a cached page.

Thanks Ayahuasca for the info. Btw, now that I know how to pronounce your name, I love saying it aloud and repeating it. It's music to my ears