Is creativity The Upside Of A Down Econmoy?
U.S. Postal Service, third largest employer in the nation, the economy is down. In the fiscal year ending September 2008 was 9.5 billion fewer letters and packages in the mail last year – a loss of $ 2.8 billion. To save money from Postal Service set routes, offered early retirement and shorter sorting system 24-18 hours a day. Through cuts 20,000 jobs were eliminated. If more cuts are needed, small post offices may have to be closed and mail delivery only 5 days week. Post offices will not be on the same grounds of age "seal."
Due to the economy down, school districts throughout the U.S. have been reduced or plan to stop school bus service. According to a 2007 congressional report, school buses represent 25% of school transportation, but they represent only 2% of deaths of school transport. According to the Transportation Operation and students of the Institute of Directors, the standard school buses Passengers 65-77 lead. Thus, each bus to be split 30-40 means more cars on the road, which means an increased risk of car accidents and as increased fuel consumption, pollution and wear on infrastructure. Obviously, cutting off a school bus is not good "bus-Iness.
The down economy is causing the crisis of funding for museums, too. Staffs are being laid off and exhibitions, will be postponed. National New York Museum of the Academy resorted to selling two paintings to raise much-needed $ 15 million. Critics who believe that museums are meant to safeguard the art – the art does not safeguard museums – the National Academy ought to have sold their prestigious fifth avenue building, but that would have closed the museum. Now the museum has been blacklisted by the Association of Art Museum Directors and not be lent works for special shows. The recession has taken the fun of fundraising.
Finally, as a struggle of many Americans to pay for health care in a down economy, new hospitals are being built in Mexico. Prosthesis hip and knee replacements, laser eye surgery and plastic surgery cost a third to half of what they cost in U.S. treatments for extreme obesity – bypass gastric band gastric sleeve laptop – are the most sought after procedures. Lap-band surgery costs $ 16,000 – $ 18,000 in the cost of $ 7,000 U.S. in Mexico. In 2007, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina began offering benefits abroad. In 2008 the American Medical Association published guidelines medical tourism. Apparently, surgery may be the new Mexican takeaway.
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Knight Pierce Hirst has written for television. newspapers and greeting cards. Now she writes a 400-word blog three times a week. KNIGHT WATCH, a second look at what makes life interesting, takes only seconds to read at http://knightwatch.typepad.com
Jay M Robinson WinterGuard