had coffee this morning during a men's group at church with a friend who runs the woodlands office of an international construction company that had been doing a great deal of work for oil and gas firms
last week he met with his contact at exxon at was told about their "REPACING" schedule for their projects for the end of this year and the first half of next year
the picture isn't good and his contact said the word is to expect 15,000-20,000 exxon employees to be laid off/ offered early retirement in the next few months
that won't cause a ripple among contractors, suppliers, etc.. that will be a scheissing wave and word is dow has shut down production on some of their lines and people are waiting on chevron, bp, and royal dutch
additionally, i left there and went to help direct traffic at a food distribution by houston food bank and an organization a friend oversees that i have mentioned before on the board. first week we did i believe 1,300+ vehicles
today i don 't know the count, but we started at 8:30, i left around 12:20, not only was the flow of cars still strong when i turned out of the parking lot i clocked the line at roughly 7 tenths of a mile still waiting on food. that is a great depression class food line
when i read about someone misstating the report to congress by a factor of ten, the continued miss reporting of the case count, the panic by the press, then the justification that it was done only to protect us i want to say a big scheiss you to those who believe and justify in those actions and i mean a john holmes sized scheiss you
get your ass in your car and start waiting at 5 in the morning for food for your family all because someone missed a damn decimal or tried to act in our best intereste