On 2/26/10 10:54 AM, Stu wrote:


I'd like to know just who these people are that are "supposedly"
filling these ships. Everyone I know, are having a hard time of it,
and are not going to take their families anywhere unless it's a very
very good deal. More likely will use what credit they have it just to
survive until the economy gets better.
I think the cruise lines may find that their bulletins about "book now
before prices rise" may backfire if the economy does not turn around
quickly enough.

Jobs in the US have been going to Asia and Mexico by the millions since
the very early 1980's (the "Reaganomics" Greed is GOOD era, where it was
all about chasing cheap labor). That exit of jobs continued through the
Bush, Clinton, and Bush eras.

For the past 10-15 years, credit and smoke and mirrors have given us a
fake economy. But now that's seen for what it was.

Just how quickly do you expect this economy to turn around?

It took 30 years of chasing cheap labor in places like China to get us
to this point. The jobs are gone. What kind of economic turn around to
you see happening "quickly enough"? Where exactly are the jobs suddenly
going to come from to turn this economy around?

--Tom