I saw that Delta airlines is going to lay off 6,000 employees I think it was and that the price of tickets and checked baggage is going to jump due to the higher fuel prices.
Also in the local paper they are starting to have problems with houses they have foreclosed on. They are getting run down and the neighbors want the yards and houses cleaned up as transients and dopers are breaking in and living in them. The city has no money and may have to lay off emergency personnel, IE Foremen & police. But they just spent $10 million on another Gas powered turbine to provide electricity and then stated that they would have to raise the electrics rates by at least 6% per year for the next 10 years. And that will go up as the price of fuel increases. Two more of the small businesses closed down this week and the city is flat broke and in the red, so they may have to increase the taxes on the remaining businesses to make up for the lost revenue, which will just force more of them to close.
Ron
