Posted on 12/03/2009 3:07:34 PM PST by MNDude
I was curious to hear how the economy has been effecting everyone's lives and communities? Has your job been effected, or do you see empty strip-malls on your block?
How are you handling the new troubles that come with such an economy?
Do you live in Cook County Illinois? Your area sounds so familiar....
Where my husband works they laid off half the people last year right before Christmas. They have only hired back 2. All the administrators took a ten percent pay cut.
Our business was down by 50% but has picked up some the last 2 months. We don't go out to eat as much and we will not spend as much on Christmas.
So many businesses have closed up. Some of them had been around for 20+ years. Empty strip malls, offices, etc. Housing developments that had been started now just sit with no work being done. Downtown is starting to look like a ghost town.
my husbands job was cut by 40%last December.....even the hospitals now are sending people home early....I still lots of shoppers but I also see lots of people going to the warehouse stores or Goodwill...and the dollar store....
“By the way, notice I said that Walmart was laying off? This is Christmas season! That was the one thing most around here was relying on. It was the ‘go to’ and folks were waiting around for Christmas season to get some cash, but not this go round.”
My in-laws moved to Milledgeville over the summer. They said it’s the worst unemployment in the state.
jim-doug’s lung went bad on him back in may so’s we had to send timmy into the big city with his fiddle for some cash.
but then timmy went off with the homosexuals and we’re down to our last can of beans.
its bad.
Yeah, Milledgeville is having it rough too.
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