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... “* My boyfriend Justin plays this online video game with something to do with Star Wars. He started playing a year or so ago, when we were just starting to date and he explained how the game works to me: you pay a monthly subscription and get access to the game, which was originally hosted .... “
This happens to all of the mmorpgs, Post retail the there are lots of servers to handle the million + subscribers who bought the game for $69 USD. Then as interest tapers off, they leave to other games or go back to wow. The $15 per month is still rather trivial as I bet most of those peeps still have their Cell phones with $90 data plans.
But you’re right, times are tough. The best indicator is just go to the grocery store and look at the prices of fresh produce and meat. 3 years ago you could get a nice london broil that feeds 4 with left overs for under $8. Now it’s around $15.
Drive by all the strip malls and see all the empty businesses. Even grocery stores are shutting down.
The current major media has totally failed at their stated goals of being the govt watchdog, thank goodness for the internet news.
Major outlets for news have become Obama cheerleaders.
No, it isn't cruel - it is admirable. There should be stigma to living on the dole. I wish my little town's stores here did that. Instead what we see are welfare mommas obliviously flaunting them - in some cases, bragging. I have NEVER seen one of them trying to 'hide' using the card - EVER..... Disgusting.
The author needs to COME ON DOWN to D. C. & suburbs. Talk flush! The food isn’t cheap, but I’ve got AT LEAST 8 high-end supermarkets to choose from, and that doesn’t include the international markets and single-nationality markets. Car-dealers, restaurants, department stores, gyms, country clubs are everywhere. The government and its press corps have no reason whatsoever to believe that anything’s different elsewhere. It’s Hollywood in the depression 30s.
Chicago is falling apart because of the media ignored and extremely high rate of BLACK crime!!!
When blacks become a certain percentage of n urban population, the crime rate ALWAYS goes up while economic activity plummets.
Chicago is well on it’s way of becoming another Detroit.
I am in a small midwest city and just this morning I heard that 3 yes THREE funeral homes are going out of business because of “economic hard times”.
I never thought FUNERAL HOMES could have hard times since their business never really ends but I have seen it now.
Yup, whole lines of stores boarded up. When I moved here in 2006 there was a new very nice strip mall with 4 stores, a Pet store, a Circuit City, a Pier I and one other. Starting in ‘08 they began closing and now the row is empty.
The town I live in has maybe 50,000 people if that.
Just don’t you laugh your ass off when the cooperatint comrades of the MSM call the current economy “The Great Recession?”
Wouldn’t that at least rise to the level of “Minor Depression?”
Things aren't really that bad around here but I ain't telling you where that is because way too many people are already up here and I'm still looking for work myself.
I was down sized to 32 hours per week in 2011 and the lost wages really hurt the budget.
Our family’s favortie weekend past times is to drive around the three reservoirs in our vicinity and enjoy the outdoors and wildlife. We have not enjoyed one of these drives in over a year because we cannot splurge on the extra gasoline.
Other cut backs are too numerous to mention, but we are just like other middle class Americans that have been affected by Obama’s economic policies. I can’t wait to vote against him in November.
I predict that should Romney win, the State Run Media will suddenly “discover” all of these problems, and more, and promptly begin declaring them all a result Romney’s Depression. For proof, they will point to their own lack of reporting on said problems during Obama’s regime (”Well, if had been there, we would’ve told you!”) I predict this will happen within 6 weeks of inauguration.
I've seen middle-aged white guys working as janitors and in car washes.
Kevin DeJuan has a boyfriend? I didn’t know....
Anyway, my sign of the Depression is that my son, his fiancee, and all but a handful of their friends who graduated college in the past two years are either unemployed or seriously under-employed.
Paul Ryan really needs to keep pounding his statement about “the twenty-somethings still living in their childhood bedrooms, staring at the faded 0bama poster on the wall, wondering when they can get on with their lives.” It’s true; many families are living this reality NOW.
Oh, I would tweak Ryan’s comment to end with the statement”
“...wondering when they can get with on PAYING THE STAGGERING DEBT 0BAMA HAS LEFT THEM.”
Lowe’s built a brand new store here. In two years it was closed down. The new building sits empty and boarded up. Across the street a lot was cleared for a new Super Walmart. The builder’s office is still there, but there has been no progress. There are unfinished commercial buildings still sitting since the crash.
Average age of cars on the road nearly eleven years old - a record.
I wonder how many car accidents occur as a result of the many decaying vehicles traveling on US roads.
Temporary delays ahead for food stamps
News | Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:49 AM |
A major change in the delivery of food and nutrition services, also known as the food stamps program, is about to occur. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division has invested in a new automated service delivery system, NC F ...Read More
http://www.salisburypost.com/News/092012-DSS-NC-FAST-pr
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