Urban Wasteland: New term (not one of ours...) becoming more popular due to inability to generate very low-cost housing sales in areas like Detroit, Michigan...
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
Idler Day
Idler Day: The proposed renaming of Labor Day to Idler Day. This is based on the 'official' 10% or so unemployment rate (Wikipedia reports it at 15.9%...) in the good ol' USA. In some areas (like Detroit) it is now nearing 30% (officially - probably closer to 40%). Let's guess that the actual rate of US employment is more like 25%. That's alarming.
Bit.ly: http://bit.ly/9DpJm
References: Unemployment Jumps to 9.7%, Highest Since 1983, Unemployment rate jumps to 26-year high ,US Unemployment and Idle.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Debinging
Debinging: The unfortunate consequence for cutting back on municipal services by newly elected celebrity leadership and protests and similar.
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