Makes me wonder, if things are this busy now, imagine how it will be should we ever get full employment again? I still have a 2-hour commute sometimes to go 25 miles and during the go-go 1980s, I never had much trouble getting a table at a restaurant if I wanted to go out to eat.
I'm in process of relocating to southern CT and the housing prices are insane. I'm talking half a million dollars just to get a basic home. Yet somehow they are finding people to pay these prices - otherwise they would come tumbling down.
I'm not saying people are not having a tough time of it but is it really as doom and gloom as some of us are making it out to be?
“But the stock market is going up. So everything is cool right?”
At this point the performance of the stock market is inversely related to the well-being of American workers; the surest way to drive up a stock’s price is to announce layoffs in the US. The reduced forecasted costs drive up the profitability of the company.
And the other 52.3% vote.
47%, There it is again. Mitt is starting to sound prophetic.
Everyone across the board needs to reject this bogus DOL “unemployment rate”. Because of all the meddling and trickery with how unemployment is counted, it’s high time to demand that the only acceptable metric is SELF-EMPLOYED/EMPLOYED ADULTS WORKING 40 HOURS A WEEK OR MORE AND PAYING INCOME AND SS TAXES.
We need to count the makers, the creators, the productive... and we need to let the takers, the destroyers, the parasites STARVE.
How many of that 47 percent employed are federal, state, county and city employees?
America imports far too much crap from elsewhere, particularly from China.
America really, really needs to bring back manufacturing.
Food has gone through the roof.
There was this hippie looking dude in the Post Office yesterday, loud. Asking if all his social security paperwork was ok in one box (mid 40’s, healthy)
The guy at the counter assured him it was fine. The guy turns to the line on the way out, “I hate the friggin’ government’.
If they can get social security disability and smoke pot all day, why work?
The government manipulation of numbers is a shame and proves how corrupt the government is. I came across an older quarter today and it reminded me how our money was recently full silver. The debasement of our currency is another indication of corruption. Corruption and tyranny go hand in hand.
Could relate to your list, possibly.
CWII Spark — Lack of work, due to government meddling, combined with confiscatory taxes is a real recipe for civil unrest.
Ping-a-Ling!!!