Recession
259 creative works found
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IN THE RECESSES OF MY MIND
by C J LewisI look at the happy times. I look at the times when we did have joy…when we did laugh and when we did smile but they are so far and fe…
Just a small part of one life…as told in a monologue.
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Life in the US
by Patricia L. BallardBeing creative has been hard for me this week. Maybe it’s being at back home after a trip to Florida last week. Maybe it’s feeling overwh…
Being creative has been hard for me this week. Maybe it’s being at back home after a trip to Florida last week. Maybe it’s feeling overwhelmed by everything that I want to get accomplished and the intrusion of the trivia of daily life. Whatever it is has led to a feeling of limbo that nothing seems to shake. Finally yesterday, it hit me. I’m waiting for the presidential election here in the US. It can’t come fast enough. The changes in daily life for most Americans have been massive over the last eight years. Many people will blame it on 9/11, and that has been part of it. No doubt that it sped up and magnified our downward spiral, but the changes had started before 9/11. To me, it seems that the changes in my life and those of my friends are indicative of the deeper problems of our country. Let’s start with medical care. After almost twenty years of a good job, my husband was forced to quit after his hospital was bought by an HMO that was famous for the way it cut the quality of care in order to make money. I was ill at the time with sinus polyps. Under by law, we could continue with our current medical insurance for eighteen month after he left his job. I was locked in a pattern of chronic infection. My body was resistant to the antibiotics that were approved by the formulary. The doctors would put me on steroids and antibiotics. I’d get better for a few weeks. Then I’d be weaned off the steroids and get ill again. All of this was complicated by asthma that presented itself with a chronic cough. At its worst, I could only get a little sleep at night by sitting upright with pillows across my lap and slumping forward over the pillows. Only this position stopped the cough. At no time did my doctors even suggest x-rays of my sinuses or even bother to look up my nose with a scope. As baby boomers, we were told that we were uninsurable by any other private insurance. My husband was jobless, and we had just bought our dream home in Santa Fe a year before. There were no jobs for him in Northern New Mexico. He tried for a year to work locums. They’re sort of have stethoscope will travel. All the travel was exhausting. This led us back to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where we had lived thirty years ago. He went back to work at the University of North Carolina where he had done his anesthesia training.He immediately got me seen by a specialist who probably saved my life. After over four hours of sinus surgery, I got up and walked out of the hospital the same day. We went out to dinner two days later and decided to move to Chapel Hill three months later. We hated to leave our home and friends in New Mexico, but we needed the job and the medical insurance. Our old insurance refused to pay for my surgery as they claimed that I could have gotten the same care in Albuquerque. Short of hiring lawyers and suing the HMO, there was no way we could get our money back. It did not matter that there was none of the equipment used on me during surgery in the whole state of New Mexico. We’re relatively lucky as my husband will always have a job. We’ll always have medical insurance, but overall the quality of care is dropping in this country. It’s unimaginable how many people are dieing with no affordable care. My brother, an epidemiologist who specializes in public health, says that more people die every year in the US from a lack of medical care than died in 9/11. Yet our leaders are callous to this statistic. I have counseled my friends who have thought of retiring or changing jobs to make sure that the medical insurance and benefits are locked in before making any changes. Recently, I went to get a refill for a medication that I have taken for almost ten years. It has been discontinued by the manufacturer. It’s not a necessity for life, but it did take care of my problem. The replacement medication does not work as well and gives me mood swings. The manufacturer of the first medication evidently decided that it couldn’t make enough money on the medication when it went off patent and stopped production. Unfortunately, I can’t find a generic version. The quality of life here has degraded in other ways, too. I don’t see friends if we have to drive too far to meet, as gas has gotten to be too expensive. If you can find gas. It took weeks for the pipeline to the Southeastern part of the US to be repaired after it was destroyed by a hurricane this fall. Many people are having to choose between driving and feeding their families because of the expense of gasoline. Before driving to Florida, a necessity for my husband’s work, he got on the AAA web site and researched the availability of gas on our route and it’s cost. The roads have less traffic. Fewer people can afford to travel. Two friends of mine have had to close small businesses that they had run for over twenty years. People are often buying only necessities. When I run errands, the stores are much less busy and crowded than they were even a year ago. The organic and whole foods stores are particularly empty. People are opting for less expensive foods. These are just a few examples of the changes that have happened in the US since 2000. It’s looking as if Barak Obama will win the current election. If he does, I don’t see how he can do more than make a small start on correcting the mess in four years, but at least it would be a start. This has all been written from my perspective and out of personal experience. I did not take on larger issues because I do not have the time gather the statistics to back up my beliefs. Plus, almost any statistic can be twisted to back up any argument, but I felt the need to let Redbubblers from outside the US know a little of what it’s like to live here at the moment.
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Chinese film. Red filter. As is. This holiday season is tough for some people. Hope the recession won’t last long.
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Clowntown 101 lead specialist or team leader top to bottom think “master of my fate captain of my ship” something like that, until the poop hits the fan…wham you know where you are at, rung one ladder one and sometimes out the door on your arse. / Corporate culture is universal a Catch-22 of bottom line and quarterly goals with numbers replacing people who work to ladder up the rung or keep what jobs they have to make the ends meet. / The world is sliding into a catastrophic depression polarizing the haves and the have not….you cannot run and hide it is on everyones doorstep even the fat cats are gonna get leaner and meaner to hang onto what they have….in the meantime…”hey buddy can you give us a bailout!!!!!” / Cut up your credit cards….drive your vehicle less…plan your meals wisely and buddy up with friends to get through this fiasco and think this….STORM THE BASTILLE…..Liberté, égalité, fraternité…and boycott where and when it makes sense…..never ever loose your cool…if you do the top clowns will know you blinked….use the system. / Oh and use this for a dart board or any other objects you would like to sling. / More stuff at: montdragon
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Good News
by Mark RamsteadHave you noticed a general malaise here and everywhere? I think the economic situation has got us all a bit down, and it has affected us …
Have you noticed a general malaise here and everywhere? I think the economic situation has got us all a bit down, and it has affected us all whether or not one has lost their job or not. Art seems to get produced no matter what the climate is, but a recession certainly makes it harder to sell, and harder to make, as life gets filled up with the business of living. My good news is that the photo “Mono Lake” in my gallery now has 100 FAVES! The very first one of mine to reach that number.
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Acentuate the positive – minimise the negative
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Stressed
by Anthea SladeThey say there is good pressure and bad, / but this kind of pressure just makes me sad. / I know jobs are at risk and life is on the line / ...
Stressed featured in Core (C.O.R.E) Group on the 31-3-09. Stressed written on the 29-3-09. Thank you my beautiful RedBubble Friends for your compassion and wonderful comments on Stressed. I appreciate your support so much.
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Recession - what recession?
by Geoff Coleman - LandscapesDamn but I’ve just had my best month for RB sales ever – go figure!! I think it’s probably been helped along by the RB promos for free-sh…
Damn but I’ve just had my best month for RB sales ever – go figure!! I think it’s probably been helped along by the RB promos for free-shipping and 20% off canvas sales, so thanks to RB for kicking things along big time: Large canvas print of In the Beginning to a mystery buyer Matted prints of Raging Stillness, Radiance, and A Little Radiance to a mystery buyer A calendar to a mystery buyer: And a special thanks to franzi for buying a matted print of The Thrall – check out her art it is AMAZING. So roll on the recession I say!
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Just in cast you didn’t get the reference to Regan.
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Now Hiring
by gagmanThese are difficult times that we are going through, if anyone is desperate for this job just send in your resumes.
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A painted sign on the wall of an auction house in the inner west of Sydney (Erskineville). Just keep repeating the mantra.
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point n shoot digital photo with some color adjustment using simple iphoto edit.
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"Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away"
by Colin TobinThe end is near. Kodak to retire Kodachrome film, Paul Simon weeps. http://bit.ly/16nfMn !http://www.uh.edu/e…
The end is near. Kodak to retire Kodachrome film, Paul Simon weeps. http://bit.ly/16nfMn Kodachrome by Paul Simon When I think back / On all the crap I learned in high school / It’s a wonder / I can think at all / And though my lack of education / Hasn’t hurt me none / I can read the writing on the wall Kodachrome / You give us those nice bright colors / You give us the greens of summers / Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah! / I got a Nikon camera / I love to take a photograph / So Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away If you took all the girls I knew / When I was single / And brought them all together for one night / I know they’d never match / My sweet imagination / And everything looks worse in black and white Kodachrome / You give us those nice bright colors / You give us the greens of summers / Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah! / I got a Nikon camera / I love to take a photograph / So Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away
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when the recession hits its worth reflecting!
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In one sense this is a semi abstract picture about a rain storm in a City, in another its about recent events in “the City”. On a technical note I don’t apologise for making “dark” pictures. As a general rule people tend to see dark pictures as somewhat depressive.. but my thinking is that this has an almost stained glass window quality. The colours are thrown up by the dark background.
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Recession? / Spread your love with the main man! £ version available / and other denominations. Godgeeki :)
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Click to view t-shirt… It was modeled by a pig named “Kano III Jnr” but he ran away with it before we could take the photo… the motorway is now his home….
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A day with dolphins :D
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Santa's Flipping Burgers
by robpixaday*Santa’s flipping burgers / The elves are unemployed
Available as a t-shirt: /
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