"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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Tell you what. I'll tell *you* when the economy gets better.

WTF do you think *you* are? I thought any fool could see the economy is
improving...but obviously I found one fool (you) that can't.

I don't
have to read or cite statistics that some bureaucratic conehead in
Washington is hired to mung up. I'm sort of like the farmer that walks
out in his field to see what the weather is like. I don't need the
weatherman to tell me what I can see with my own eyes. Mr. Weatherman
is rarely any more correct than the economists, anyway.

You think you're the only farmer with eyes? I can see things too Gene...and
they're quite the opposite of what you see.



It is my job and the job of the company I work for to train and
retrain the employed and unemployed alike. When we have *plenty* to
do, the economy sucks. When we have to go looking for people to
train, that means the economy is good.

What, specifically, does your company do? Much of what's done in dentistry
these days is elective...and, despite a sub-par year in 2002, my numbers
(and many of my peers' numbers) are up about 20% from last year.

Dentistry is a very good indicator of the economy.



Trust me, all of the economic misinformation and interpretation and
statistics aside.... the economy sucks.

No, Gene, trust me. The economy has been turning upward for awhile
now...and is poised to skyrocket. The NYSE is up 32% from a year ago...and
the Nasdaq is up 70%. GDP is increasing each month. Unemployment is
dropping. The statistics sure seem to substantiate my opinion...not yours.

When it gets better....
*really* better..... I'll be one of the first to know.

Actually, it seems you're the last to know.


Oh, and while you are trying to improve your reading list beyond
Mother Goose, how about looking into your email program's
documentation and see why it always adds "RE" to everything AND copies
*EVERYTHING* in a reply... even properly delineated signatures...

Maybe you could cite some government statistics and take them to the
bank for enough money to buy a real newsreader......

Slamming someone's newsreader is rather off the point, don't you think?