Posted on 07/14/2010 5:46:01 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Banner headline at Foxnews. 0.5% drop.
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Recovery Summer!
I’m living proof of that. I’m in retail; manage a garden center. We’re a TAD ahead of last year, which surprised the heck outta me, but that was due to reducing staff and not loading up on inventory.
I still have a LOT of stuff to sell, but my year ends on September 30th, so I have a while to do it.
It’s been tough sleding since about mid-June. We’re only making a buck because we’ve cut expenses in every possible place we can. We are to the bone now, and hopefully don’t have to go to the marrow!
Recovery my Aunt Fannie!! And the Midwest has been greatly insulated from the rest of the USA this time around. But it’s here now, that’s for certain.
Meanwhile @ the DNC...
“QUICK! SOMEONE GET SOME RACE CARDS!!!!!!
We are going to need some major distractions from this...”
Obama to Blame:
1) Oil Spill in Gulf
2) Sarah Palin’s mean words
3) George Bush
4) Greedy Corporations
5) Fox News
6) ‘bitter clinger’s’
Oh well, we all get the point...
Everyone’s out of a job, underemployed, given up, or just broke.
Of course they’re not spending.
And....it’s incredible to me....the plan is to RAISE TAXES.
Take away more of the little bit of money that they have left over after paying expenses.
Those first round tax increases hit in January, DinWisc, so I’d plan for a small Christmas rush and then a deadly slow winter.
“U N E X P E C TE D ! “
That is always what the Obamie Marxist MSM says about anything that they could not cover up or lie about.
Meanwhile, the economic data seems to relentlessly indicate that there is no recovery at all.
I work in wholesale in the SE Texas area. Our employment has been better than the national numbers, but we're beginning to feel it now also. The drilling moratorium is scaring a lot of us as well. Summer months have traditionally been our money makers, but I'm looking at mid July numbers and they look more like January numbers. I'm beginning to really worry.
Yep no job here. We just cut cable and several other items to try and make it. Won’t be buying much of anything and continuing to clip coupons while looking for better deals.
Even if you're working, you're looking at increased health care costs, higher taxes, increased fuel and electricity rates, etc. All thanks to the Democrats in DC. Everybody's hanging onto their money because there doesn't appear to be any end to it.
People don't know what to expect because they keep lying to us about how much it's going to cost, and they've hunkering down, preparing for the worst, and hoping it's enough.
Smart decisions...keep fighting!
I listen to NPR, too. They are truly “whistling past the graveyard”............
Exactly....the re-reports now from all the bean counters from the Congression Budget Office to independent think tanks is that EVERYTHING was underestimated and that it’s gonna be a whole lot worse
This is Obama’s terrible economy and Obama’s tragic job market. And it’s far worse than the reported 10%
That’ll surely create more jobs <s
>Even if you’re working, you’re looking at increased health >care costs, higher taxes, increased fuel and electricity >rates, etc.
You left out: Watching the houses in the neighborhood go unsold, listed at less than their current mortgage amount.
I planted a bigger veggie garden this year to reduce grocery store buys, weather hasn’t been great for it though. Still I’ve not bought as much from the grocery store as I’d usually buy, and it tastes a lot better.
Clothing stores haven’t seen much of my business either, and won’t until they start carrying conservative ADULT clothing, not street walker clothes.
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