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IT Workers Cushioned From US Economic Downturn

Posted by timothy on from the employment-tends-to-be-binary-though dept.

DontLickJesus writes "According to the AP, technology has been the least hardest hit by the U.S.'s recent economic downturn. Quote: '"Overall technology employment is up in America and the wages associated with it are up," said John McCarthy, a vice president with Forrester Research.' The article goes on to say that companies realize the worth of their [IT] staff. This paired along with a recent article regarding the value of data centers when selling a company leads one to believe that the business world, while historically not fond of IT workers, is showing its true opinion of the sector."

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  1. Experience brought us where we are today by SuperKendall · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The financial crisis is a strong indictment of Sarah Palin's inexperience.

    How so? It was the "Experienced" washington people that drove policy to allow lending to people who otherwise would not have got such large lines of credit. You can ask Biden about that. McCain tried to warn us all about four of five years ago that the two FM's were headed for disaster but many Democrats and Republicans headed him off at the pass.

    Furthermore Palin being a libertarian, would be against forcing private entities to loan money to people they otherwise would not approve on a financial basis.

    We'd all be a lot better off with Palin as president where less government intervention into financial entities would be tolerated. MCCain too I guess, but I'd prefer Palin - and a vote for McCain today is a vote for a chance to put Palin in in four years.

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    1. Re:Experience brought us where we are today by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The McCain-Palin administration

      Or, as Mrs Palin aptly put it on Friday, "My administration..."

      I bet that makes John McCain even more dyspeptic.

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    2. Re:Experience brought us where we are today by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Nonsense. This is long term planning at its finest.

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    3. Re:Experience brought us where we are today by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The answer remains: "What wouldst thou hear?"

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    4. Re:Experience brought us where we are today by Jorophose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It's kind of sad when people are so heartless that you're making bets about someone dying and taking about it online, like he's going to drop dead any minute.

      I don't like Palin, at all. I don't like McCain '08 (McCain '00 on the other hand, I guess would have been better for you then Cheney '00). Palin has a lot of control right now over the presidential candidate. It's horrible. And yes, he's getting old. But I wouldn't doubt that he lives on at least 4 more years (how many points do I get for that one?).

    5. Re:Experience brought us where we are today by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Palin has a lot of control right now over the presidential candidate. It's horrible.

      And how, pray tell, would you know any of that?
      Furthermore, how did you move from "long term planning" to "dying"? McCain could serve two terms and live another 16 years, and you know what age he'd be? That of his mother today.
      We could any of us die at any moment. If you want to take that tack, fine, but please don't try to attach that thought to my post, sir.

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    6. Re:Experience brought us where we are today by Jorophose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      A lot of control because right now she's killing his "popularity", she's stealing voter attention from him, and people are focusing on her because they're cruel jerks. =/

      (Sorry if you felt targetted. I was throwing it out as a general "oh thoust slashdot")

  2. Re:Bah, I caught Cthulhu and Obama siponing gas... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    s/sipon/siphon/
    Gasoline is not for internal use, I don't care how much corn is used.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear