Jobless Recovery

I think that that has been a common practice for manufacturers for some time. I was listening to Moneytalk on the radio today and Bob Brinker was stating that the reason for the jump in the GDP during the third quarter of last year (I think it was 8%)had much to do with the tax cuts that went into effect at that time.

How does same price but smaller package but high unemployment tie in with jobless recovery?

...are creating new jobs. Whatever Dubya says, makes absolutely no sense. He says the economy has bounced back, well for who has the economy bounced back? Wall Street, drug companies, insurance companies, military and weapons companies, the very rich and of course Haliburton. Most other folks still struggle and fear for their jobs. It's Bushit, pure and simple:hurts:

His take on inflation is that it's only up by 1% but they're not counting the two biggest factors--food (up 3.3%) and gas. He also said the formula they are using to report inflation results in a figure putting housing price increases at about a 2% inflation rate. This fan of Bush said that he is sure housing has gone up much much higher than that and he added that if they are understating housing increases, then the total report is likely understated. He added that this works out good for BushCo though, because they make entitlement payment increases (ie., medicare and social security) based on these reports and if they stay the low the government spends less. Hmmmmmmm

is like a 96 year old lusting after a 27 year old. One can think about it all they want, but sex ain't gonna happen.

...a one pound can of coffee now sells for $5.98 and all you get is 10.5oz of coffee:wtf: WMDs (weapons of mass deception)

For some products, they do seem to shrink in size.

Others don't. Not yet anyway.

If you don't buy name brand stuff (go generic or store-brand), this sort of robbery is less likely to occur. From what I've seen so far.

But expect things to get more expensive soon... inflation, housing bubble burst, outsourcing bubble bursts (it's hard to maintain an economy when you switch the tax burden from the rich to the middle class WHILE taking away middle class jobs and giving them overseas)... another war, which will happen if * stays in power... there are lots of other reasons...

And the sad part is, and I don't even need to mention peak oil... :scared: )