Posted on 11/01/2010 5:15:03 PM PDT by Nachum
Traffic on route A1A is sluggish today, just like the economy here on Florida's Atlantic coast, south of Cape Canaveral. The state's unemployment rate is reported to be 12 percent, but people around here say they cannot believe it is that low.
People are hurting here, just as they are around the country, but in the seaside towns around the Kennedy Space Center, they have extra reason. NASA is winding down the space shuttle program, which has employed thousands of people around here for 30 years -- and the Obama administration has canceled the program that would have come after it.
"I feel sorry for those guys," said Bill Thompson, a painting contractor from Orlando who brought his son to a local air show. "Businesses are closing their doors. Just look at all the vacancies. They talk about the trickle-down effect? Well, it trickles down to me."
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Florida went for Obama in 2008. How you like your hope and change now?
Dem's don't believe in trickle down.
Well whaddayaknow. Turns out Government CAN create jobs after all.
Driving around Orlando last night it looked like every other business was shut down. Elections DO have consequences.
The economy in this country is dying.
The economy in this country is dying being deliberately strangled by leftist, America-hating bastards.
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