The REAL Crisis - Swept Under The Rug, Or Earth, As It Were

Here's an article about even MORE layoffs hurting the economy, and these will come soon on Wall Street. Before I can get too happy about that, what's so disturbing - we now have so many immediate headaches to deal with that everyone is working on the mess right in front of them full time, all the time. So nobody is paying attention to the crisis looming in the background, the mother of all headaches, and the end of the world.

Unemployment is going to be a key factor in the upcoming avalanche of zombies that we will be battling over the next few decades as we are overrun by floods, talking dogs, radiation, and other assorted environmental catastrophes as our air and water become progressively unfit for human consumption.

As more people become unemployed, they won't care enough about their lives to fight the zombies. They will be more inclined just to give up and join in. If a guy is sitting on his couch eating dog food, and the zombies come in, he is just going to say "what the hell." Let them take a bite and get with the new program. This is where we need real leadership from our politicians, to give us hope in the face of this onslaught. It would be a hell of a battle even without the unemployed Wall Street guys, and any battle where we would rely on politicians is absolutely hopeless, but now, it seems even more...hopeless. If that's possible.

Trust me, these zombies are going to make unemployment look like a picnic. It would be better to be attacked by an army of 50 foot women, because quite a few of them are hot. Check out this picture I took of my last 50 foot woman, who I met in the South Seas. She never dropped me, not even once. Carried me around in her bra. I was supposed to keep these pictures a secret but I just don't see the point anymore. Stock up on canned goods and ammunition. You're more than welcome.

New York City, whose economy rests on Wall Street's shoulders, has the most to fear from a confidence-rattling economic shock because the city's budget is prepared to adjust to a gradual decline, economists say.

The stock market's meltdown and the tens of thousands of layoffs announced by the city's hometown financial industry have not -- at least for now -- matched the stresses of 2008-2009.

"There's a difference in magnitude and certainly a difference in the financial situation," said James Brown, a labor analyst, at the state Department of Labor. Banks may not be earning as much as expected, but he said: "No one's sitting around talking about going out of business the next quarter."

What is not yet known is precisely how many bankers, traders, analysts and brokers will lose their jobs in the city. Pink slips likely will descend on many workers in other states and countries.

"Volatility and unpredictability is probably the best way to characterize where we are now," State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli told Reuters.

[Reuters]