Why does everyone say the economy is in poor shape when all I see is prosperity?
Where I live, the number of housing units increases by about 50 every year. They are high end rentals, luxury condos, townhomes, gate private communities. Yeah, go back to 2005-06 the numbers were more like 100-125, but they were also like this between 1996-99. Not one housing project, we have two, about 100 units each. One was built in 1971. The other was built in 1984. Both times during Republican presidents. The older one was rebuilt last year. Put a lot of people to work.
I’m a vet tech. The practice I work for is booming. When I was a kid, this was our family vet, one vet, one assistant. Today this same practice provides high end boarding at $20-40 per day (almost always full). Holistic pet foods at 3x the price of grocery store food, and sales are way up. We have two groomers on staff and a person that just washes animals. I’m one of three veterinary technicians (AAS) there is a veterinary technologist (BS) as well as 4 veterinarians, plus the owner and other staff. This place is grossing in the millions. Not the case 20 years ago. We don’t live in a huge city (only about 26,000) and most people are middle class to upper middle class. I make $16 per hour right out of community college. We can’t even get a fourth vet tech at this price. I make a good 10-12 hours OT every week.
My brother works for a motor freight line. They need Class A drivers, Class B drivers, forklift operators, warehouse laborers. Business is really good. You can walk in, no skill, no experience and make $11 an hour as a laborer. Make it past 90 days, you get $12 plus a good amount of OT. My brother had about 21 hours training as a forklift operator. Three 7 hour days. They started him at $14 per hour. After his 90 days probation, they paid him a $500 bonus, about what he paid for forklift training.
I don’t know one person not doing at least fairly well except for one cousin. By choice, he works a 14-17 hour week at a retail store for like $8 per hour. He’s been going to college for six years now. 3 credits a semester. My uncle should toss this lazy bum out.
TV tells us we need to own certain things. Like cars that cost $400-500 per month to own. Anyone who doesn’t own at least a 47" TV set, less than 2 years old, is poor. Everyone eats out all the time, yet has a kitchen full of fabulous appliances. If we don’t live up to the unrealistic image put out by corporate America (the GOP’s buddies) there is something wrong with our lives and we must be unhappy. If you don’t watch TV or go to movies (like me) it is amazing how much better everything seems away from the spin.
you don’t get out enough
9.1% unemployed is not prosperity.
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I’m sure there are good spots here & there but overall things are bad.
Plus, many people want to ride out their unemployment benefits before looking for work.
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Yep, millions out of work, inflation taking hold from trillions more in counterfeit money printed 3 wars, massive taxation, regulation and governmental debt and control is making everything come up roses.
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Are you naive? You live in your own little community in your own little world in your own little chair…….. sure pockets of the USA are doing great here and there, but open your eyes and take a vacation, not everyone is smelling the roses right now…….
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you don’t get out enough
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Some areas are doing well, some others are not.
I’m in the same boat as you are. We are having the best 3-4 years, financially, that we’ve ever had. I don’t personally know of anyone who is out of work or looking for a job or even on unemployment or social services, but the evidence shows that many people still are. Thankfully, not us.
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Not ‘everyone’ only the puppets.
while 90% of the country is working and kickin’ ass, the Republican Cult is trying anything and everything to regain power because to them power is money.
Al Qaeda loves them.
The "Grand Ol’ Party" is no longer grand, too old and have a party-first mentality.
F-them
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I agree. Im not doing so bad. Everybody i know is mostly happy here in Texas. I have changed my spending habits and splurging and buying things I don’t really need. And at the end of the month i still have a savings. I feel ok. Sometimes i think all this talk is just to scare people.
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You hit it right on the head, we believe we are doing poorly because corporate America manipulates us.
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Hello ,
Take a look at the unemployment rate . not to forget the many graduates looking for a job . Lets not forget about these facts .. it all fits in .. not to ignore until it bites . . . see you at the poles .
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Well it really depends in the looker. Economists said that the economy is not doing good while some people like us see and appreciate small improvements.
Well for me it doesn’t really matter what the expert says. As long as I know that I am doing what I’m supposed to do, I am happy where I am and that other people are alive and doing well. That is enough, and I thank GOD everyday for that. And I can see that you are too.
Call it anything you want to say, but we should look on positive things most of the times and be happy with it even if it is just a small development. Let this small changes inspired us to be more productive and let us not allow those negative reports pull us down. You’ll see, if we see and appreciate these small positive things more often we can get out of the problem easier and faster…
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