Thread: Signs of economy improving

Norfolk Southern recently started hiring, Liebherr has had an increase in heavy truck orders from 26 last year to 38 this year and hiring people for several fields ( just toured the facility last week and saw the new model they havent listed yet including design changes that will blow CAT and Terrex out of the water ), Northrup Grumman and BAE Systems are hiring larger numbers of people. What signs of recovery are you seeing where your at?

None.

Half of the street lights are being turned off.

No water for grass in the parks, no mowing, they took the trash cans out, so they wouldn't have to collect. Restrooms were closed last summer.

Layoffs of city employees.

The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled. The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter. Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that. Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero. City recreation centers, indoor and outdoor pools, and a handful of museums will close for good March 31 unless they find private funding to stay open. Buses no longer run on evenings and weekends. The city won't pay for any street paving, relying instead on a regional authority that can meet only about 10 percent of the need.


Oh, you mean private sector..........fuhgeddaboudit!

All the people I know that have been out of work for months, and months still don't have jobs.

Can't get customers to pay their bills. Can't get new projects, or commence work authorization on jobs already awarded. Same with our competitors -at least, the ones still in business.

It's beginning to look worse, not better. I'm beginning to really get concerned.

We have not seen bottom yet. This small "bright spot" is merely the eye of the storm. Lying ahead are hyperiinflation and/or collapse of the dollar. Then we're all in deep dookey...

nothing here.

some places are turning into ghost towns due to the large amount of foreclosures. everyone is still cutting back. went out for lunch and the places i always went to are really changing the way they prepare their food to cut back there losses. just makes it worse since now i won't be going back to a place i went for years.
on the highways the lights are being turned off and i'm finding less and less employees at stores to take care of customers. my company has never been worse. so i have yet to see any improvement in this area or even 50-60 miles either north or south from here.very sad.very depressing.

Getting worse in the Detroit area.

It will be interesting to see what the census is in my area compared to 2000. I suspect a big loss with plant and mill closings.

Originally Posted by navychop

Can't get customers to pay their bills. Can't get new projects, or commence work authorization on jobs already awarded. Same with our competitors -at least, the ones still in business.

It's beginning to look worse, not better. I'm beginning to really get concerned.

You're just now beginning to really get concerned ?
That happened to most people about a year ago.