One thing you didnt mention was the complete sell out of guns by the end of 2008. This started immediately after the elections. Money people had went toward the purchase of weapons. This was never told much by the press, but even as I write this manufacturers shelves are completely devoid of all assault style weapons or anything of quality. I understand this will change in the next few weeks as manufacturers gear back up since they were caught off gaurd by the rush. It was caused mostly be a Democrat sweep of Washington D.C. which left gun rights advocates fearing the worse.

Without a doubt the job situation has taken a turn for the worse as in any recession. However, a look at the stock charts show that the stock market actually bottomed around Nov 20, 2008 and is inching back up ever so slowly. This usually happens at the end of a recession. Since the stock market is always forward looking, it does not actually follow other government numbers (such as unemployment numbers). Unemployment has its major shoot up at the very end of a recession because actually employers react lately to news. In fact, due to low interest rates, some Mortgage companies have had to recall people they just fired a couple of weeks ago as mortgage applications have climbed in understaffed departments.

So I would not put too much doom and gloom into the predictions of 2009. Everything works in cycles whether it be the climate or economics. Which brings me up to your Global Warming prediction that is TOTALLY AND ABSURDLY Retarded. Man kind has ZERO effect on the climate. In fact, Jupiter has gone through almost identical patterns as earth and it is because of our distance to and the activity presented on our solar system’s SUN. Yep, it is all based on the sun and forces in the galaxy far beyond our control. That is why the icy swaths of Greenland were once green just a thousand years ago. It is all cycles tha range from hour to hour to century to century.

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