How's the economy in your area...

[coco77]

let's get back to the real issues.

[MoseyWalker]

1. There isn't one.

Truly. There isn't one.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

2. How do I say . . .

[coco77]

6. That looks like bush to me...

why didn't you step on him...:rofl: :rofl:

[bif]

3. Michigan? Ha! That's a good one!

Sucks bigtime.

[William Bloode]

4. Good in a deceptive way.

More hiring for whites and blacks, not so good for hispanics. We were very short on jobs here, hiring was frozen for a couple years. Now since the focus on illegal immigration many companies here won't touch a hispanic with a ten foot pole. They are in fact beginning to leave. I who had once been one of their great detractors find myself defending them. What can i say they grew on me, i got to actually know many of them. I will also miss how they have enriched our culture around here. We have never seen such damned fine traditional, and semi-traditional Mexican food.

In truth there are no more jobs, no rise in production or hours worked. They are just shutting out thousands of people they enticed here in the first place.

[lovuian]

7. 90% of America's wealth is owned by a few and that spells

a Depression

Economics 101

[coco77]

8. We won't hear about this until...

after bush retires.

[William Bloode]

12. Don't i know it!

Heres an interesting tid-bit about the culture where i live. It used to be when i was young and growing up that to display wealth was very bad taste. A man might be rich as all get out, but look like, dress like a common fellow. A family might build their huge fine home right next to an old farm house, or even a trailer.

It was never considered nice to lord your wealth over others, and a person would suffer mightily if they did it. These days though the influx of wealthy folks from other places has prompted a load of elitist wealthy bullshit these days. Things such as gated communities, and housing restrictions. Get this, in a place where 35% of all homes are single wide mobile home, the county commission just tried to pass a zoning law that would prohibit new permits for anymore single wide mobile homes. Thats even if you already had a mobile home on your property.

I wish those elitist jackasses would go back from whence they came!

[Sammy Pepys]

5. Hard to say...

I live in D.C.

[Nay]

15. Ain't it the truth? I live in Richmond, and the economy seems to be

doing well so close to DC. We traveled in the Southwest this year, tho, and were hard-pressed to find any areas doing well except Las Vegas.

[Warpy]

9. For the last 5 years

every February and June, recent college grads have gone begging for jobs renting videos, selling shoes, driving forklifts in warehouses, ANYTHING.

Happened the last time one of that family was in the White House, too.

[coco77]

10. Last month on George Stephanopolis " This Week" ....

George Will said that there was an opening for a Walmart, I believe it was in minnesota. He said that there were 25,000 people lined up for these jobs and that this was a sign that the economy is good. This is how these republicons think...

[Selatius]

11. We're still recovering from Katrina here in Mississippi.

They've started throwing up high-rise condos now that many lower class homes were swept away. Two or three of them have started construction after the storm. The casinos are trying to get up and running again here on the coast.

[LiberalEsto]

13. Very thin Help Wanted sections

They are the worst I've seen since the Bush I recession in 1990. Nobody is advertising jobs.

I live in the suburbs of Washington DC, where the economy is supposedly just great. It's not.

I can only imagine what it must be like in Ohio and other places where there have been massive industry layoffs.

[butterfly77]

16. I believe that all of the real information about the ...

economy will begin to surface after the election and somehow it will be transferred to the dems. Most jobs want you to post on the internet and I believe they are just collecting information about the public.

[Coexist]

14. it sucks - all my friends made their "net worth" on the value of their homes

which was rising at an absurd rate.

I personally know three people who left their careers to enter the real estate market.

-One is now laid-off (his company was expecting to sell 750 homes the first year, they sold 3)

-One is now at a new job - still has a few homes listed.

-One is looking for a new job, because "I can't make my BMW payments on my commissions" anymore (she is a mortgage broker.

That is not even MENTIONING the neighbor who has "interest only" payments on her 350,000 home, and those who took out "home equity" loans to finance VACATIONS and obnoxious landscaping.

[OhioChick]

17. What economy? n/t

[leftofthedial]

18. in the shitter

record home foreclosures

lowest median income since the mid-90's

employment rate is low (jobless rate is high)