On 12/17/08, Vitaliy <spam@maksimov.org> wrote:
> "Bob Axtell"  wrote:
> > While the media is having a lot of fun pushing "lost jobs and bad
> > times", I see no genuine evidence of a depression anyplace. When I
> > read the news, I keep thinking it is talking about another country
> > somewhere else.
>
> You must be very lucky then.
>
> I wouldn't call the situation a "depression" (and I certainly hope that the
> current recession does not become a depression), but things are definitely
> worse economically than they were two years ago.
>
> Vitaliy
>

Several of my engineering friends have been let go from their jobs in
the last 8 weeks (or coming 2 weeks)
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