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Titanic Mementos!

Well it seems that some precious personal belongings are coming up for auction from the Titanic. There’s a lady in London, her name is Millvina Dean, and she’s in need of some money to pay for her nursing home room. She’s the last known survivor of the Titanic sank in 1912. She was two months old when she was lowered in a lifeboat that cold April night. Her family, along with her brother, who was two at the time, were one of the few survivors. Anyway, she will be selling off a suitcase that was full of clothes. The suitcase was given to her and her family as a gift from New Yorkers to help rebuild their lives. I was reading that the suitcase could go as high as $5200 by the end of the auction. If you ask me, she would have a better chance in Las Vegas Nevada then selling off her precious items. Instead of this woman being forced to sell off her items for government should maybe step in and help. I only say this because I was reading that in Britain they have a free health care system for their elderly. Anyway, I’m sure she’ll get the money she needs to continue living in her private room at the private nursing home.

Unemployment!

That’s all I have to say, unemployment. Where in the world are all of our jobs going, China? It can’t be China; their country is dropping faster than we are. I was just reading that the U.S. unemployment rate just went up to 6.1 percent in August. This is the highest that it has been in almost five years. And on top of that, it’s the eighth straight month that jobs have been cut in from U.S. economy. The Labor Department said today that 84,000 jobs were lost in the month of August. If you ask me the workforce hear in the U.S. is on track of cutting over 1,000,000 jobs by year’s end. And you know what, most of these jobs will never come back, that’s what’s sad. I really don’t have anymore to say on this, it just makes me get mad. The U.S. government needs to do something to save these jobs, after all it’s there job. I’m not asking for a hand out from the U.S. government, I would just like them to do what we all pay them to do.

Stocks On The Rise!

Today seems like it’s going to be a good day for Wall Street. The spark that sent stocks upward was due to a GDP, report. And the drop in jobless claims is also fueling the Dow Jones industrial average, which is over $125 for the day so far. The one thing that could hurt the Dow Jones today is the rise in oil prices. Oil right now is over $120 for a barrel. This rise in price is because of the Tropical Storm Gustav, which is heading towards the Gulf of Mexico. This storm has already taken the lives of over 22 people and many still missing or faired dead. And it doesn’t look has it’s getting weaker, it’s getting stronger. The sad thing right now is that it’s heading towards Louisiana and areas devastated by Hurricanes Katrina three years ago. The only question that remains is, how strong will Gustav be when it hits land. Hopefully it will remain a Tropical Storm, but you just never know when it hits Gulf of Mexico.

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