I have just been looking at an online survey.

The results of which are;

Which of the following describes your current employment situation?

1. My work place is currently making redundancies and I fear losing my job in the near future 12%
2. I am newly unemployed - within the last 3 months - but NOT claiming job seeker's allowance 4%
3. I am newly unemployed - within the last 3 months - and I am claiming job seeker's allowance 2%
4. I have been unemployed for more than 5 months and have been claiming job seeker's allowance for 5 or more months 4%
5. None of the above 78%

You’d imagine with all the talk of doom and gloom on the horizon that the results would be a foregone conclusion.

However, here are the results.

1. 12%
2. 4%
3. 2%
4. 4%
5. 78%

So that’s nearly 80% of people who are in work who have no worries about loosing their job. That kind of flies in the face of the general prospective somewhat. But then I always do get the impression that no news travels faster or LOUDER than bad news. The anti-climax of the Swine Flu pandemic being a perfect example.

If you watch the Fox news reports from the US, you’d be more than

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