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Utah's job outlook grim
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(Anecdote follows:)House hunting this weekend, I was surprised at how few of those selling their homes really were that motivated. Prices are still too high, and I didn't see one single home that had been freshly painted (A relatively EASY and inexpensive home improvement (when compared with things like new carpet, flooring, or roof))
And how about the media who continues to quote any "expert" they can find who predicts doom and gloom? We're going to talk ourselves into a depression! It almost seems that's what some (including many liberals) want.
We the people hold the power. We decide when this downturn has bottomed out. Scaring people to run like lemmings is irresponsible and, I believe, criminal.
Why do I have to share in the pain of a bunch of greedy slobs on Wall Street or "house flippers" in California? I never benefited. Why am I now paying the price?
And my appraisal two years ago I thought was very fair, not inflated; we are never late on our payments, etc. I look at my situation as its own little stimulus package gone awry. I need financing and especially I have to not be punished by appraisals using foreclosures to arrive at price per foot. I look around at a few empty houses and I pretty much know who was there. Help me, please.
"Grim"? Cheer up people.
if we are projected to go from 4.7% unemployment to 6.7%, that's a 200 basis point increase. If another state went from 9.6% to 10.8%, that's only a 120 basis point increase. Since Utah would have a greater increase, you'd think we were worse off, but I'd much rather have 6.7% than 10.8% unemployment.
Now I don't know that those are the actual numbers and projections, but since the article is silent about that type of information, you don't know. But then, gloom and doom sell more newspapers than do well researched, complete articles.
Now as far as non-tax paying workers who use our hospitals, schools, etc... As soon as the lazy blue eyed danes get HUNGRY, they will go pick fruit or roof a house. Yes.. hunger has a way of leveling everything.
But, don't worry. My bailout plan will encourage the "middle class" to synthetically exist (we all know the middle class is an abberation created by the 20th century industrial revolution) for a while. Therefore they won't be as motivated (read hungry) to take those disgusting jobs from the non-tax paying workers.
So, sleep well and everyone please enjoy my stimulus!!
I know a landscaping company who would hire any american first who would work as hard as his illeagals do. The problem is those Americans what twice the pay for half the work. That makes it hard to runa profitable business.
You could look at Ireland, the Celtic Lion. Once the Irish sounded a lot like Utah. Ireland had Europe's most robust economy. Today, Polish workers are going to Poland because there are more jobs in Poland.
In the end. My brother owns a landscaping business. White kids can't hank it.
Once more, Utah isn't America. California has a 4,000,000,000 Mexican dependent agricultural sector.
I'm not arguing that we don't lag the rest of the nation, I don't know that I'm arguing anything you said.
I'm saying the article is so poorly written it doesn't really support anything, but it tries to paint a picture of gloom and doom.
I'll repeat, it we go from 4.7% unemployment to 9.4%, our unemployment rate will double, but we would still be in better shape than another state that increased by 1/2 from 8% to 12% unemployment.
All the article had to do was forecast unemployment rates rather than job losses, but I guess that would not sell as many papers as a gloom and doom story.
All the other states have already lost more jobs. I would still pick Utah over most other states right now.
Will they still be anti-HELP Government, when they're loosing their home, their cars, can't pay for the kids college education anymore, can't pay for their free-market driven health/medical insurance anymore,..? What will they say and be feeling then?
Hopefully, that their Republican party and its crony-driven elitist economics betrayed them, and they were in the end 'used' and abused for an economic ideology that in the end did not serve their interests and never will.
What will you folks say then?
There are no unemployment problems in Utah.
Every thing is just fine and dandy as usual.
Hummin' right along like clockwork.
This is just another lie created by the liberals.
Where I work, our hours have been cut back. Food prices keep rising and there is constant talk on radio stations of all the unemployed around the country. Don't think that what happens elsewhere doesn't affect our buisnesses in this state. We are not an island! The ressession ended and this is now a depression. Only no one will say the word.
As time passes, eventually things will get better. It's just going to take alot of time and stress before better times arrive.
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