Man is the economy bad, I mean real bad!

The problem I see is our "boom" was based on expansion...however that can only go so far
How many Walmarts, Home Depots, grocery stores, etc can you have within a few miles from each other??
After they killed every small business around them....

So how much money can these stores make? How many cars can a person buy when we train people to swap for a shiny new car every two years with low payments ....

Prices keep going up on goods because we have to feel the gambling ring called Wallstreet and we have to have 2 income households with children taking care of themselves because we must work insane hours to keep afloat.

Then when we reach capacity - stores shut down, companies go under, people get laid off to maximize the profits and so forth and so on....

But we cannot go back now! Remember most of our folks grew up in households or had households where dad went to work, mom stayed home and took care of the house and children and lived in relative prosperity - THAT IS GONE !! NO MORE

In most cases - one parent drops the workforce and the family is screwed!!

We inflated the balloon as far as it could go folks - NOW WHAT??

We have based our economy in thieves selling get rich schemes, legalized gambling know as Stock Market and other countries oil....

Some days I just want to take my familly and get off the grid for good....

A lot of baby boomer retirees rely on their pensions and investments in mutual funds for their subsistence.

So, what happens if the market continues to go down (as it has been doing since the beginning of the year)?

hey just my 2 cents... i Work in the Private Aircraft Aviation Industry (10+years)... Rich people aren't flying rite now, or at-least cut back there traveling a lot comparatively.. we saw this kinda trend before the 07-08 collapse.. so take this info for what its worth..

This video clearly describes what happened to the US economy and does a far better job informing you of the truth than all the phoney statistics and noise.

The most financially secure people I know are the ones with government jobs. They will get a pension while the rest of us won't.

Don't mean to rub it in but you have to have committed yourself to live beneath your means.

We've always lived like we earned half of what we actually did. This enabled us to put a lot of money aside, own 2 houses, newish autos etc.

It meant that when friends and neighbors were pissing away money on frivolous trivialities we saved. When the neighbors went to dinner and blew 150bucks on food and booze, we saved dinners out for special occasions.

When they borrowed money for furniture, cars, vacations and maxed out credit cards, we saved and paid cash. We paid our credit cards in full every month.

The so called American dream, living and spending like drunken sailors has been the norm for way too long.

I feel bad for those who are suffering and struggling to get by, BUT I feel NO guilt for having my shit together and living well.

I hope Trump can help us pull the country out of the fire. If not, bug out property here we come!

Any one else notice that the new car dealers have inventory busting out the seams. Around here they have so many new vehicles that they have to rent empty lots to park the excess.

Since Obama is letting Muslims poor into the U.S. by the thousands and giving them a welfare check I figure I will buy a herd of goats and go into the porn business. Holy snackbar! That's a great idea!!

Maybe the economy isnt great. Obama hasnt help it at all. But, in the food service we are up. Personally I haven't done better financially. I have zero debt, 4,000 in savings and no money in the market. Granted I also have no retirement fund, but i figure ill be working till I die anyway.

lol. it's like everyone moved to thriving parts of the country...and ... didn't tell the rest of us.

The executive and VIP interior aircraft sector is crashing as well. These are $20-115 an hour jobs in a select skill set. Scaring times. Everyone is trying to pay off everything and have enough to cover taxes for 10 years. We are hearing gloom from the costumer reps. These costumer reps are for the Elite that can afford to purchase a 50-300 million dollar aircraft and then spend another 20-150 million to pip it out.

As soon as they raise taxes to cover federal employees pension (not the military folks) as the private tax sector begins to collapse, it will be the time to revolt and make them understand we are not their slaves.

Yeah sure.

Your State is nearly bankrupt if not already.

yeah its getting bad world wide I cannot imagine one more year of Obama

This entire post is a crock of s***, from experience this is completely opposite of anything that I'm experiencing at all I have never had more money in my life I have hundreds and hundreds and maybe even thousands of dollars of disposable income and living in the house having a job raising a family I'm feeling like I'm on top of the world don't know about y'all

My friend works at Audi down the street the mother f***** sold 6 cars already this year that's alot of commission and its only February

I don't know maybe you guys need to get some better situation just some better life for some better people or a better job or maybe look at your expenses maybe cut some of the b******* out of your life I don't know what to tell you but this post just kind of garbage

I call BS! I would venture to say a lot of these people bragging how great it is are somehow tied to the public sector and government money rather than straight private sector jobs.

I ring up one item at a time and bag that item.

But, sometimes, the totals are so high that I have trouble believing it and I think it's shocking to the customers too.

Don't wait for them to call you back. Be pro-active and follow up, and follow up again if needed. Get a definitive yes/no before you cross one off your list.

See if you can barter for some things in the meantime. Any marketable skill you might have, use it to put food on the table or other necessities.

What about temp?

Blame Bush for that. Obama inherited a shitty economy.

Oh no you don't, maggot. Obama has had this economy for nearly 8 years and it's all his. and he was HIRED to fix it. Instead, he's lied about it getting better, when it was getting worse.

Except for motherfucking assholes like you, we could have had Ron Paul, who could have actually fixed the economy.

I work as a chef
My wife is a secretary

Together we make 3500 a month... It's not to bad here

anybody else going thru the same?

less liability. that's also why millennials aren't
buying many houses.

you can ditch your cat at a parking lot or rest stop,
and nobody will notice but ditch your kid? Go to jail.