Comments on: Numberscruncher: What Goes Around http://popdose.com/numberscruncher-what-goes-around/ your daily dose of pop culture Fri, 25 May 2012 17:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tedhttp://popdose.com/numberscruncher-what-goes-around/comment-page-1/#comment-54194 Ted Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:24:21 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=20381#comment-54194 In my neck of the woods (suburban Bay Area), the recession of '82 hit the city were I lived -- mostly because it was a blue collar town -- but my parents were white collar (sales and graphic arts) and weren't really affected by the sudden loss of jobs. Now, as you say, we have an evenly spread recession and it's tough to know how we "grow" our way out of this recession when 1. It's global and 2. People are being much more frugal with their money. And since consumer spending is so key for economic growth, it seems like it's going to take a long time for us to reach a less volatile economic climate. In my neck of the woods (suburban Bay Area), the recession of '82 hit the city were I lived — mostly because it was a blue collar town — but my parents were white collar (sales and graphic arts) and weren't really affected by the sudden loss of jobs. Now, as you say, we have an evenly spread recession and it's tough to know how we “grow” our way out of this recession when 1. It's global and 2. People are being much more frugal with their money. And since consumer spending is so key for economic growth, it seems like it's going to take a long time for us to reach a less volatile economic climate.

]]> By: Tedhttp://popdose.com/numberscruncher-what-goes-around/comment-page-1/#comment-41645 Ted Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:24:21 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=20381#comment-41645 In my neck of the woods (suburban Bay Area), the recession of '82 hit the city were I lived -- mostly because it was a blue collar town -- but my parents were white collar (sales and graphic arts) and weren't really affected by the sudden loss of jobs. Now, as you say, we have an evenly spread recession and it's tough to know how we "grow" our way out of this recession when 1. It's global and 2. People are being much more frugal with their money. And since consumer spending is so key for economic growth, it seems like it's going to take a long time for us to reach a less volatile economic climate. In my neck of the woods (suburban Bay Area), the recession of '82 hit the city were I lived — mostly because it was a blue collar town — but my parents were white collar (sales and graphic arts) and weren't really affected by the sudden loss of jobs. Now, as you say, we have an evenly spread recession and it's tough to know how we “grow” our way out of this recession when 1. It's global and 2. People are being much more frugal with their money. And since consumer spending is so key for economic growth, it seems like it's going to take a long time for us to reach a less volatile economic climate.

]]> By: Tedhttp://popdose.com/numberscruncher-what-goes-around/comment-page-1/#comment-30669 Ted Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:24:21 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=20381#comment-30669 In my neck of the woods (suburban Bay Area), the recession of '82 hit the city were I lived -- mostly because it was a blue collar town -- but my parents were white collar (sales and graphic arts) and weren't really affected by the sudden loss of jobs. Now, as you say, we have an evenly spread recession and it's tough to know how we "grow" our way out of this recession when 1. It's global and 2. People are being much more frugal with their money. And since consumer spending is so key for economic growth, it seems like it's going to take a long time for us to reach a less volatile economic climate. In my neck of the woods (suburban Bay Area), the recession of '82 hit the city were I lived — mostly because it was a blue collar town — but my parents were white collar (sales and graphic arts) and weren't really affected by the sudden loss of jobs. Now, as you say, we have an evenly spread recession and it's tough to know how we “grow” our way out of this recession when 1. It's global and 2. People are being much more frugal with their money. And since consumer spending is so key for economic growth, it seems like it's going to take a long time for us to reach a less volatile economic climate.

]]> By: Eric S.http://popdose.com/numberscruncher-what-goes-around/comment-page-1/#comment-30519 Eric S. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:15:26 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=20381#comment-30519 Growing up in the Midwest and spending the last 25 years outside of Detroit, I've never experienced real economic growth. As bad as things are now, it only seems marginally worse since Michigan has been trending this way for at least five years. When I moved to Detroit in '84, the government was bailing out Chrysler. Now it's deja' vu times two. The only consolation we have here is that real estate prices never ran up as much originally, so the drop hasn't been as drastic as in the "sand states". So far, the only solution state politicians have come up with is undercutting every other state with tax breaks for movie productions. So Clint Eastwood filmed "Gran Torino" here. An aging star with an aging car seemed pretty appropriate. Growing up in the Midwest and spending the last 25 years outside of Detroit, I've never experienced real economic growth. As bad as things are now, it only seems marginally worse since Michigan has been trending this way for at least five years. When I moved to Detroit in '84, the government was bailing out Chrysler. Now it's deja' vu times two. The only consolation we have here is that real estate prices never ran up as much originally, so the drop hasn't been as drastic as in the “sand states”. So far, the only solution state politicians have come up with is undercutting every other state with tax breaks for movie productions. So Clint Eastwood filmed “Gran Torino” here. An aging star with an aging car seemed pretty appropriate.

]]> By: JonCummingshttp://popdose.com/numberscruncher-what-goes-around/comment-page-1/#comment-30489 JonCummings Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:01:11 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=20381#comment-30489 Yeah, Northwestern was a tough adjustment for a rural Southern kid, too. From the sound of it, though, I was much happier to dive into class politics than you were. I figured out pretty quickly I wasn't gonna fit in with a lot of the wealthier kids, no matter how I faked it. It could get uncomfortable sometimes, even with the ones I got along with. Like that Cashill guy--always trying to buy my friendship with free Sunday meals, but where was he when the tuition bill came? Laughing, that's where.<br><br>(Actually, the truth is that I was able to keep up at least a little bit with my friends' pocket money by abusing the Work-Study program, particularly when they were foolish enough to give unsupervised Work-Study jobs--with other students approving my exaggerated timesheets!--to arts-section columnists at the Daily who only wrote one article a week.) Yeah, Northwestern was a tough adjustment for a rural Southern kid, too. From the sound of it, though, I was much happier to dive into class politics than you were. I figured out pretty quickly I wasn't gonna fit in with a lot of the wealthier kids, no matter how I faked it. It could get uncomfortable sometimes, even with the ones I got along with. Like that Cashill guy–always trying to buy my friendship with free Sunday meals, but where was he when the tuition bill came? Laughing, that's where.

(Actually, the truth is that I was able to keep up at least a little bit with my friends' pocket money by abusing the Work-Study program, particularly when they were foolish enough to give unsupervised Work-Study jobs–with other students approving my exaggerated timesheets!–to arts-section columnists at the Daily who only wrote one article a week.)

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