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In any year, most governments lose about 5% of their staff through retirement, injury, fired or they just quit. If every employee worked 33 years, none were ever hurt, quit or got fired, the yearly loss would be 3% on average. Another issue is most governmental employers have 3-5% of their positions vacant. What typically happens is that they just stop hiring and eliminate or freeze vacant positions. That gets them between a 6% and 10% reduction without handing out a single pink slip. Some of the local governments have seen this coming and have had hiring freezes in effect for months. There might be a few pink slips given out here and there, the unions and media will make a big fuss but it will look worse on paper than it really is, I don’t think the local economy will feel the impact too much.

[temeculaguy]

In any year, most governments lose about 5% of their staff through retirement, injury, fired or they just quit. If every employee worked 33 years, none were ever hurt, quit or got fired, the yearly loss would be 3% on average. Another issue is most governmental employers have 3-5% of their positions vacant. What typically happens is that they just stop hiring and eliminate or freeze vacant positions. That gets them between a 6% and 10% reduction without handing out a single pink slip. Some of the local governments have seen this coming and have had hiring freezes in effect for months. There might be a few pink slips given out here and there, the unions and media will make a big fuss but it will look worse on paper than it really is, I don’t think the local economy will feel the impact too much.

[temeculaguy]

In any year, most governments lose about 5% of their staff through retirement, injury, fired or they just quit. If every employee worked 33 years, none were ever hurt, quit or got fired, the yearly loss would be 3% on average. Another issue is most governmental employers have 3-5% of their positions vacant. What typically happens is that they just stop hiring and eliminate or freeze vacant positions. That gets them between a 6% and 10% reduction without handing out a single pink slip. Some of the local governments have seen this coming and have had hiring freezes in effect for months. There might be a few pink slips given out here and there, the unions and media will make a big fuss but it will look worse on paper than it really is, I don’t think the local economy will feel the impact too much.

[temeculaguy]

In any year, most governments lose about 5% of their staff through retirement, injury, fired or they just quit. If every employee worked 33 years, none were ever hurt, quit or got fired, the yearly loss would be 3% on average. Another issue is most governmental employers have 3-5% of their positions vacant. What typically happens is that they just stop hiring and eliminate or freeze vacant positions. That gets them between a 6% and 10% reduction without handing out a single pink slip. Some of the local governments have seen this coming and have had hiring freezes in effect for months. There might be a few pink slips given out here and there, the unions and media will make a big fuss but it will look worse on paper than it really is, I don’t think the local economy will feel the impact too much.

[temeculaguy]

If I spent more than $20 on a bottle I usually finish it the night it is opened because more than one person is usually drinking. For my “nightstand botte” I just leave it uncorked, it takes about 2-3 days to finish and it’s fine. I have a little stopper thing that I sometimes use but it doesn’t create a seal like a cork, it just uses gravity to block fruit flys and things from getting in. I’ll use it if I buy a 1.5 liter bottle because it takes me at least four days to drink those and I still end up pouring some out. I get suckered in by the price but I’m usually kicking myself afterwards. I tried a new one from costco today, a 1.5 liter $8 special from concho y toro, the xplorador, a chilean cab/merlot blend. The cheap bastard in me couldn’t resist the $4 per 750 ml average. Save your money, it sucked. It’s fun to try and find cheap wines that are good but the $7.50 threshold that menage and blackstone sit at is hard to beat, below that price point I haven’t found one that I really like. Another winner in that same range is Tin Roof, about $7.50 at costco. Costco alos had a bunch of wines on coupon, there were signs everywhere. Kewp, they had a coppola pinot for under $10, I can’t remember the exact price but it was cheap, give that a spin and see if you like it, I wish I had not gone cheapo and made that my experimental choice of the week. That’s the final tip, when you do your wine shopping each week, always pick up one “experimental.”

[temeculaguy]

If I spent more than $20 on a bottle I usually finish it the night it is opened because more than one person is usually drinking. For my “nightstand botte” I just leave it uncorked, it takes about 2-3 days to finish and it’s fine. I have a little stopper thing that I sometimes use but it doesn’t create a seal like a cork, it just uses gravity to block fruit flys and things from getting in. I’ll use it if I buy a 1.5 liter bottle because it takes me at least four days to drink those and I still end up pouring some out. I get suckered in by the price but I’m usually kicking myself afterwards. I tried a new one from costco today, a 1.5 liter $8 special from concho y toro, the xplorador, a chilean cab/merlot blend. The cheap bastard in me couldn’t resist the $4 per 750 ml average. Save your money, it sucked. It’s fun to try and find cheap wines that are good but the $7.50 threshold that menage and blackstone sit at is hard to beat, below that price point I haven’t found one that I really like. Another winner in that same range is Tin Roof, about $7.50 at costco. Costco alos had a bunch of wines on coupon, there were signs everywhere. Kewp, they had a coppola pinot for under $10, I can’t remember the exact price but it was cheap, give that a spin and see if you like it, I wish I had not gone cheapo and made that my experimental choice of the week. That’s the final tip, when you do your wine shopping each week, always pick up one “experimental.”

[temeculaguy]

If I spent more than $20 on a bottle I usually finish it the night it is opened because more than one person is usually drinking. For my “nightstand botte” I just leave it uncorked, it takes about 2-3 days to finish and it’s fine. I have a little stopper thing that I sometimes use but it doesn’t create a seal like a cork, it just uses gravity to block fruit flys and things from getting in. I’ll use it if I buy a 1.5 liter bottle because it takes me at least four days to drink those and I still end up pouring some out. I get suckered in by the price but I’m usually kicking myself afterwards. I tried a new one from costco today, a 1.5 liter $8 special from concho y toro, the xplorador, a chilean cab/merlot blend. The cheap bastard in me couldn’t resist the $4 per 750 ml average. Save your money, it sucked. It’s fun to try and find cheap wines that are good but the $7.50 threshold that menage and blackstone sit at is hard to beat, below that price point I haven’t found one that I really like. Another winner in that same range is Tin Roof, about $7.50 at costco. Costco alos had a bunch of wines on coupon, there were signs everywhere. Kewp, they had a coppola pinot for under $10, I can’t remember the exact price but it was cheap, give that a spin and see if you like it, I wish I had not gone cheapo and made that my experimental choice of the week. That’s the final tip, when you do your wine shopping each week, always pick up one “experimental.”

[temeculaguy]

If I spent more than $20 on a bottle I usually finish it the night it is opened because more than one person is usually drinking. For my “nightstand botte” I just leave it uncorked, it takes about 2-3 days to finish and it’s fine. I have a little stopper thing that I sometimes use but it doesn’t create a seal like a cork, it just uses gravity to block fruit flys and things from getting in. I’ll use it if I buy a 1.5 liter bottle because it takes me at least four days to drink those and I still end up pouring some out. I get suckered in by the price but I’m usually kicking myself afterwards. I tried a new one from costco today, a 1.5 liter $8 special from concho y toro, the xplorador, a chilean cab/merlot blend. The cheap bastard in me couldn’t resist the $4 per 750 ml average. Save your money, it sucked. It’s fun to try and find cheap wines that are good but the $7.50 threshold that menage and blackstone sit at is hard to beat, below that price point I haven’t found one that I really like. Another winner in that same range is Tin Roof, about $7.50 at costco. Costco alos had a bunch of wines on coupon, there were signs everywhere. Kewp, they had a coppola pinot for under $10, I can’t remember the exact price but it was cheap, give that a spin and see if you like it, I wish I had not gone cheapo and made that my experimental choice of the week. That’s the final tip, when you do your wine shopping each week, always pick up one “experimental.”

[temeculaguy]

If I spent more than $20 on a bottle I usually finish it the night it is opened because more than one person is usually drinking. For my “nightstand botte” I just leave it uncorked, it takes about 2-3 days to finish and it’s fine. I have a little stopper thing that I sometimes use but it doesn’t create a seal like a cork, it just uses gravity to block fruit flys and things from getting in. I’ll use it if I buy a 1.5 liter bottle because it takes me at least four days to drink those and I still end up pouring some out. I get suckered in by the price but I’m usually kicking myself afterwards. I tried a new one from costco today, a 1.5 liter $8 special from concho y toro, the xplorador, a chilean cab/merlot blend. The cheap bastard in me couldn’t resist the $4 per 750 ml average. Save your money, it sucked. It’s fun to try and find cheap wines that are good but the $7.50 threshold that menage and blackstone sit at is hard to beat, below that price point I haven’t found one that I really like. Another winner in that same range is Tin Roof, about $7.50 at costco. Costco alos had a bunch of wines on coupon, there were signs everywhere. Kewp, they had a coppola pinot for under $10, I can’t remember the exact price but it was cheap, give that a spin and see if you like it, I wish I had not gone cheapo and made that my experimental choice of the week. That’s the final tip, when you do your wine shopping each week, always pick up one “experimental.”

[temeculaguy]

Nor, that isn’t a far fetched prediction, in fact I think it will happen sooner as opposed to later. I’ll go 2012, that will be the start of the next cycle and it will take time for builders to catch up. 2009 will be crappy, 2010 will show signs of life and by 2011 we will be seeing electric cars and be out of all the wars (I predit apple makes the icar in 2011), the good times will roll again in 2012 and there wont have been much construction between now and then. This country will pull out of the global recession before other countries do and more people will come here (legally and illegally), and the whole thing starts all over again. Maybe it won’t be 2012 or 2016 but cycles always repeat themselves, we wont make the subprime mistake again but we will make new mistakes. hopefully we will piggies will have learned from the past and position ourselves well in the next bubble, wherever that may be.

[temeculaguy]

Nor, that isn’t a far fetched prediction, in fact I think it will happen sooner as opposed to later. I’ll go 2012, that will be the start of the next cycle and it will take time for builders to catch up. 2009 will be crappy, 2010 will show signs of life and by 2011 we will be seeing electric cars and be out of all the wars (I predit apple makes the icar in 2011), the good times will roll again in 2012 and there wont have been much construction between now and then. This country will pull out of the global recession before other countries do and more people will come here (legally and illegally), and the whole thing starts all over again. Maybe it won’t be 2012 or 2016 but cycles always repeat themselves, we wont make the subprime mistake again but we will make new mistakes. hopefully we will piggies will have learned from the past and position ourselves well in the next bubble, wherever that may be.

[temeculaguy]

Nor, that isn’t a far fetched prediction, in fact I think it will happen sooner as opposed to later. I’ll go 2012, that will be the start of the next cycle and it will take time for builders to catch up. 2009 will be crappy, 2010 will show signs of life and by 2011 we will be seeing electric cars and be out of all the wars (I predit apple makes the icar in 2011), the good times will roll again in 2012 and there wont have been much construction between now and then. This country will pull out of the global recession before other countries do and more people will come here (legally and illegally), and the whole thing starts all over again. Maybe it won’t be 2012 or 2016 but cycles always repeat themselves, we wont make the subprime mistake again but we will make new mistakes. hopefully we will piggies will have learned from the past and position ourselves well in the next bubble, wherever that may be.

[temeculaguy]

Nor, that isn’t a far fetched prediction, in fact I think it will happen sooner as opposed to later. I’ll go 2012, that will be the start of the next cycle and it will take time for builders to catch up. 2009 will be crappy, 2010 will show signs of life and by 2011 we will be seeing electric cars and be out of all the wars (I predit apple makes the icar in 2011), the good times will roll again in 2012 and there wont have been much construction between now and then. This country will pull out of the global recession before other countries do and more people will come here (legally and illegally), and the whole thing starts all over again. Maybe it won’t be 2012 or 2016 but cycles always repeat themselves, we wont make the subprime mistake again but we will make new mistakes. hopefully we will piggies will have learned from the past and position ourselves well in the next bubble, wherever that may be.

[temeculaguy]

Nor, that isn’t a far fetched prediction, in fact I think it will happen sooner as opposed to later. I’ll go 2012, that will be the start of the next cycle and it will take time for builders to catch up. 2009 will be crappy, 2010 will show signs of life and by 2011 we will be seeing electric cars and be out of all the wars (I predit apple makes the icar in 2011), the good times will roll again in 2012 and there wont have been much construction between now and then. This country will pull out of the global recession before other countries do and more people will come here (legally and illegally), and the whole thing starts all over again. Maybe it won’t be 2012 or 2016 but cycles always repeat themselves, we wont make the subprime mistake again but we will make new mistakes. hopefully we will piggies will have learned from the past and position ourselves well in the next bubble, wherever that may be.

[temeculaguy]

Thanks aldante for defending my future ex wives, the women of cnbc. Maria, Erin, Becky, Diana, et al. finally some smart women we can lust after. Have you ever seen an interview of some actress you thought was hot and once you realize what an idiot she is, it ruins it forever. Not so with the hottie smarties of CNBC.

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