Christmas Shopping a Bost for the Ecconomy...Not Quite

A part of the christmhas spirit has always been the inisiation to the frenzy of christmhas shoping the day after Thanksgiving. Millions of people hit the steets at wee hours of the morning to get those good holiday sales, I know I joined in. By doing so I only imagined how much money must be generated, after all the three hour lines should bee a sign of prosperity. It actually is and this year sales were up by by 19% from last year according to Breaking News at the Bangkok Post
How ever in spite of this contribution from the american people who spent an average of $316.00 the ecconomy is on a spiral down ward. The stock market continies to go down. The afected companies such as Ford Motor, Blue Chip and Google have drooped in the market. Part of this is dur to the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates to avoid inflation. The dollar has began to loose value, although it has been done for I good reason I can't help but feel disapointed. At a time when the consumer is at an all time high the numbers aren't reflecting it. The U.S. government is supposed to revise the third-quarter a slight growth. We the consumers of America will just have to wait and see the out come of this holiday season untill further notice.

Drug Addicted Doctors Operating on Me, No Way!

On MSN there is an article posted named Survive Your Doctor: The Junkie in the O.R. These findings were made in studies by John Booth, M.D., a former Duke University anesthesiologist, and Mark S. Gold, M.D., a psychiatry professor at the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute. It talks about the growing epidemic of anasteleologist becoming addicted to their own drugs. At fist I was completelly stuned but if you think about it it makes sence. Every one is deirectlly or indirectlly adicted to things at work. Doctors are not only working long hours and shifts but are under a lot of pressure. Yet I am outraged this is occuring! People in low paying jobs are enforced to tale drug test and are monitored to make sure things aren't taken from their jobs. I don't see how doctors are able to take advantage of these drugs. The doctors were geting these drugs free from work and geting away with it. It amazing to see that the same thing happens in all social classes, it's a mater of the drugs that are actually available.

Generation M, Do you know what it is?

I never new I was part of generation until I read this. It is anyone born between 1980 and 2000, so if you fall under that according to Chris Pearson a blogger, we are part of it. He apparently read it on a New York Times article by Betsy Israel named The Overconnecteds. The whole point of the article is explaining how now this new generation is using much more technological advances. We use the Internet, ipods, and have many more friends than probably our parents had at our age. Eighty seven percent of twelve to seventeen year olds are regularly on-line. I think that the whole idea of generation M is fairly accurate, we are living in a technological world. My question is how are we applying this technology? Sure we have these advances but is having three-hundred friends on my space considered having more friends than our parents did. Maybe we are loosing the quality of having a evening of productivity in the outdoors and having really true authentic friends. Regardless we cant avoid being part of this generation and maybe we should learn ways to use this technology to make the world a better place.