Consumers Face Challenges in Handling Debt (Higher Consumer Cost Squeezing People.)

Yahoo Finance ^ | 7-3-06 | Eileen Alt Powell

[Tijeras_Slim]

Sure, I'll pack them in a big cardboard box so you can extend the living room.

[Dog Gone]

Perception is reality, Bubba.

Then Bigfoot really does exist!!

[mewzilla]

If you're only making $7.50 an hour, move. You'll be able to find a job for those wages just about anywhere, and I'd pick a place with a lower cost of living. Then I'd look to buy a small fixer-upper with a mortgage payment that'll run less than rent, and that'll provide some equity. It can be done:)

[LIConFem]

"And stop buying blouses that need to be dry-cleaned."

I buy machine or hand washables only. Got sick of shellin' out good $$$ for dry cleaning.

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

I have to agree with you. I am the controller for a large regional company in NC. The economy is not as sound as some would love to believe.

Now I have my super flame suit on for all the comments I will get saying I am a doom and gloom DU'er and Marxist thug.

Flame away.

[Coop]

ROTFL!

[Coop]

What flame? We just laugh at you poor souls in the soup lines!

[dakine]

Great news!

[mewzilla]

Well, I avoid dry-cleanables for enviro-weenie reasons :) But sheesh, this ain't rocket science. Has financial common sense gone out the window?

[Coop]

I will get saying I am a doom and gloom DU'er

And DU isn't the gloom 'n doom site I was referring to. But you probably would have realized that had you not been so malnourished.

[Coop]

My, my. Can I borrow your flame suit? [sniffle]

Apparently it's not the economy that's depressed! :-D

[arizonarachel]

I thought you were being funny.

[Hydroshock]

Yes for many financial common sense was never there.

[Coop]

Ahhhh, an ECU grad. Now I understand all the bitterness...

Go in peace, my son.

[meyer]

No it is not. Yesterday I got to talk to a large number of my family members at our BBQ. Under the deck cover (raining buckets) and over beer i asked every one of us guys out there what they thought of the economy. Not one thinks it is going good, many are worried. I heard at least twice people dismiss the "leading economic indictators' as false. Perception is reality, Bubba.

It seems as though the leftist mainstream media is performing its job quite well, then, by influencing opinion in favor of democrats. They continually preach of the dying economy despite many indications otherwise. Many people, unfortunately, believe everything they read in the paper.

Even this article is full of BS. $80 dry-cleaning bills do not represent a credit problem - they represent a spending problem.

[DJ MacWoW]

1) I have no desire to live in New York, thank you.

Which means you haven't a clue or facts about the area.

2) Your beautiful tale somehow provides supporting evidence of your garbage argument that most new jobs are minimum wage? ROTFL!

It's wonderful that you can laugh at others trying to survive. Must be fulfilling.

Group: $30K a year is 'poor'

County might use land to ease housing crunch

[Coop]

I thought you were being funny.

But the humor is lost on those poor souls unable to get their free doughnuts and coffee. That'll teach 'em to sleep in!

[Coop]

Which means you haven't a clue or facts about [New York].

Irrelevant to your argument. Economic numbers presented to you, and to which you responded, were national. You have no response but empty rhetoric.

By the way, how many poor people have decks anyways?

[DJ MacWoW]

The economy is growing at a robust pace. Some folks may not be enjoying a comfortable lifestyle

It doesn't matter if you can't live on it.

So quit yer belly-achin'.

How sweet.