3/10/08 Weekly Poll - Are you concerned about a recession?

Are you concerned with how a potential recession would affect your family?

A lot	22.1%	[ 23754 ]
A little	20.4%	[ 21875 ]
Vaguely	9.6%	[ 10325 ]
Not At all	6.1%	[ 6548 ]
Hadn't thought about it	24.4%	[ 26171 ]
I'm way too rich to care	3.3%	[ 3577 ]
OOHH EEEE AHHH	14.1%	[ 15083 ]
Total Votes:			[ 107333 ]

[[NPC] Opinion Primate]

EEEE! OOOOH!

Lots of gloomy economic news lately... Opinion Primate is nervous about his falling International Banana Syndicate stocks! EEEEE! Are you worried about how a potential recession might affect your family?

[bunnybaby301003]

hehehe monkey...

[Akane1412]

Kinda...

[Zeoia Kuesk]

Haven't been paying much attention, actually. sweatdrop

[WTF Robo]

Statement-
Negative. The human monetary system is soon to be a thing of the past!
We robots need no income, or financial system. However if we were in fact to somehow decide that the barter system is not adequate enough, I think human skulls would become the newest form of currency.

Query-
After all, who would want to trade for anything else?

Secondary Statement-
I myself have quite a collection of human bones, particularly skulls. All of these were owned by my previous enemies. However I managed to liberate the brain cases from them while they slept.
I have also recently heard a rumor of a late night robot TV show, wherein robots take skulls and "battle" them against each other. Each skull has an element, an attack rating, and a defense rating. Its really quite interesting, as their goal is to "collect 'em all". Each of these skulls have a personality and name (my favorite is Skull-tasoar).There is even rumor of a card game. Either way the marketing of the show itself could pull your country out of whatever financial slump it is in. Robot marketing is HUGE.


In the end I think skull collecting and trading is a wonderful hobby and a far more wonderful financial system. At least human skulls will have ONE use.

[BartDude]

WTF is a recession. xD j/k.

Not really, well, I hope not. crying

I wouldn't be able to fathom it.

[Purple Luck]

Recession is a big thing and it's bound to happen. So let it happen and clean it up the best you can. That's how I feel about it. It'll suck, but the sooner it happens the sooner we can get over it.

[iTia]

Am I concerned? Absolutely.

But I don't really fear it.

[Tangrowth]

when people think there is a recession less people spend money making the matter far worse

[Del Crux]

Its really worrying me. Seeing that US rely more on foreign products, US will have less jobs for its citizens plus the increasing gas price will burden the mass more. I think unless the government do something smart about these bad events, the economy will free fall...

[Kill Hybrid]

Nope. There's always DUBAI

[crystalsmuse]

I hadn't really thought about it. I suppose it would affect my family, but if it's not one thing, it's another, right? xp

[ZOMBIE MIKA]

Nah, not really~

[Megami Yari]

Not too much. ^ ^;;