[MinuteGal]

Your post is right on button, Flaglady. This past year in my daily interactions with neighbors and friends, even salespeople plus workmen who come to my digs I see in them a kind of a nervous humor if and when they refer even slightly to their economic futures and/or their job security.

The older folks are terribly upset and jittery over their health future under OdumboCare. Men with families and mortgages and financial responsibilities are tense and pessimistic and close-mouthed, just shaking their heads.

Given the right circumstances, I always end up a conversation with these folks saying "we've got to get rid of that commie in the White House". I used to get maybe a nod, a smile, a disinterested deadpan, a glare or sometimes even a snarky remark....now all I get is an emphatic "you've got that right!" (except from the occasional die-hard cultist).

This gives me cause for optimism, but we're going to go through some hard times first. I cringe when I see the number of shuttered small businesses in my county...and in the adjoining county....and in the counties farther away....and in.......

Leni

[ken5050]

FYI..went to see Lone Survivor the other day at the same theater where the shooting occurred last week. There's a Pasco County Sherriff's car parked in front of the theater, and the deputy is inside standing next to, and seemingly guarding, the concession stand. He looked bored out of his skull.

I guess the PCSD feels the need to do something, but they're not guarding every theater in Tampa, and t his one is probably the safest now of all of them. The deputy would be far better used out investigating crime..