The economy is improving..... how?

[patriot_son]

Jobs are still being lost here in Poogeyville... we have 3 prisons here...2 are closing. (bad thing there is that they are going to release any inmate not doing time for violent crimes)...
wel, doesn't affect me...I poach deer and eat a lot of potatoes and flour gravy

[jillsthoughts]

Yeah, different parts of the country are recovering faster than others. I still think that we need our manufacturing jobs back to have a steady economy. Wall Street in no way reflects Main Street.

[Darlin]

Here in the DC area, there are lots of service related jobs and/or high-end 6-figure jobs. The middle class (whatever that means these days) seems to be lost in the shuffle.

I'm doing ok in my job but I'm also easily working 10-12-hr days and doing the work of more then one as a measure of our company's cost containment. Unemployment affects people in many different ways.

And for Allergy Woman, congrats to your husband. That is truly great news.

[lizbethrose]

Originally Posted by paddystyle

If your alluding to Sor Juana de la Cruz, the major Baroque literary figure,then i would have got it....or if its to do with rebirth and arising from the flames again i would have got it....if its something personal then i probably would have got it eventually

Having never studied poetry of the colonial Mexican/Spanish period, I don't think I can claim any relationship with Sister Joanna. I do agree with her, however, in that women have as much right to be educated as do men. Thank you for leading me to her. She was a brilliant woman, as far as I can see.

No, Paddy, mine was more an oblique allusion to the cycle of re-birth out of the ashes of fire--and an old professor's comment.

[lizbethrose]

P_S, if you

eat a lot of potatoes and flour gravy,

why are you so thin?

I hope you take your vitamins, as well.