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1 posted on 07/08/2014 4:20:59 AM PDT by markomalley
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I read these articles but try to balance them with what I observe. And what I observe is this: There are still traffic jams going to and from work. There are strips of malls and casual eating joints around where I live and work and they are slammed just about every night. You can't even get a table on a Friday night without an hour wait. And I'm talking places like Longhorns, Olive Garden or Red Lobster, where it will cost over $100 easy to take a family of four to dinner.

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?

2 posted on 07/08/2014 4:28:58 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: markomalley

“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.


3 posted on 07/08/2014 4:30:42 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: markomalley

And the other 52.3% vote.


4 posted on 07/08/2014 4:35:30 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: markomalley

47%, There it is again. Mitt is starting to sound prophetic.


6 posted on 07/08/2014 4:42:55 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: markomalley

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.


8 posted on 07/08/2014 5:18:21 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: markomalley

How many of that 47 percent employed are federal, state, county and city employees?


9 posted on 07/08/2014 5:32:50 AM PDT by pallis
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To: markomalley

America imports far too much crap from elsewhere, particularly from China.

America really, really needs to bring back manufacturing.


11 posted on 07/08/2014 5:48:52 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: markomalley

Food has gone through the roof.


12 posted on 07/08/2014 5:56:18 AM PDT by autumnraine
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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?


16 posted on 07/08/2014 7:10:00 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: markomalley

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.


17 posted on 07/08/2014 7:16:03 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a classical Christian approach to homeschool])
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To: OneWingedShark

Could relate to your list, possibly.


25 posted on 07/08/2014 10:50:10 AM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: yorkiemom; null and void; laplata; Gluteus Maximus; Salvavida; Foundahardheadedwoman; baddog 219; ..

CWII Spark — Lack of work, due to government meddling, combined with confiscatory taxes is a real recipe for civil unrest.


28 posted on 07/08/2014 1:50:15 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: expat_panama

Ping-a-Ling!!!


33 posted on 07/08/2014 2:08:48 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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