More likely what is going on is earners know Obama is playing a rigged game to diminish the US and they have stopped spending out of concern over what he will try to do next.
This is what most people are doing.
People aren't out buying up crazy consumer stuff, they are hunkered down strategically spending. Outside of buying guns, ammo and basic supplies, people are buying what they must to replace the broken and worn out, but that's pretty much it.
No one really expects Obama's economy to "take off" anymore. In fact, people now wake up and if they read the economy has not collapsed then they consider this good economic news. This is what it has come to.