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[CrazyDaisy]

Reading thru the posts, it is amazing how since things are better for them it is better for every one. Things are great in one area it is great everywhere. There are a great number of people who have lost jobs that will never return. Had to use savings and retirement funds to live.looking at things realistically is not denying for some it is improving. Yet for a good number of people are still struggling and not seeing any improvement.

[BeckiWV]

On 4/6/2015 CrazyDaisy said: Reading thru the posts, it is amazing how since things are better for them it is better for every one. Things are great in one area it is great everywhere. There are a great number of people who have lost jobs that will never return. Had to use savings and retirement funds to live.looking at things realistically is not denying for some it is improving. Yet for a good number of people are still struggling and not seeing any improvement.

[twocent]

On 4/4/2015 northernlights said:

On 4/2/2015 RetRN said:

People are working two and even three jobs. Earnings are down and people are having to work well into their retirement years. Many people have quit looking for work, so statistics are not true. Not my idea of a great economy.

I agree with this, too.

What jobs are left-the ones that are still here-and that haven't gone overseas-in some areas, are service jobs. Not everything is the same in every area. I don't think that people are necessarily being negative, but are rather being realistic and are responding to what they are seeing in their area and their region of the country.

ITA

[lulu2]

On 4/6/2015 Kzeks said:

We went through the same thing...

We would watch the same thing happen to our investment..

At one time we lost quite a bit... It was a cause for concern..

All our friends were going through the same thing. Some of them

shuffled their investments around and paid dearly for the mistakes.

Our Financial Advisor would tell us to just sit tight and ride the

wave... That wave had us really sea-sick...

We never touched the investments and just waited it out...

Then in the last few years things turned and are going very well.

Praise God...

I was going to suggest you edit your post. That was a wise move.

[Puzzle Piece]

Here's ow I see it. We have an election upcoming. Every time (if you've lived long enough) there is an election on the way, the incumbent party announces how great the economy is doing. It is a smoke screen to help the other candidate of their party get elected.

[Topaz Gem]

On 4/7/2015 Love Roses said:

Here's ow I see it. We have an election upcoming. Every time (if you've lived long enough) there is an election on the way, the incumbent party announces how great the economy is doing. It is a smoke screen to help the other candidate of their party get elected.

Of course. It happens like clockwork.

I just read a report last week that talked about how very few teenagers (compared to years ago) are able to find summer jobs or after-school jobs, due to the fact that adults are working in their positions at restaurants and fast-food places. Normally, fast food jobs were almost exclusively filled by teenagers, but now that adults can't find better jobs, they are taking jobs at fast food restaurants and demanding that they pay them a living wage. Restaurants were always able to pay just minimum wage, because the teenagers were working there just for some extra money, and weren't feeding their families with their salaries.

[Lipstickdiva]

It depends on where you live. Unfortunately I live in an area that is still depressed. Houses are selling a little better but they are selling for well below market value. There are 2 houses on my street that are vacant and have been vacant for at least 2 years and there are 3 houses on my street for sale that have been for sale for well over 1 year.

Sears Hardware stores all up and closed in my area and there is a lot of chatter that our local mall is closing. The Steel Plant just laid off a little over 200 employees due to the declining oil and gas markets. Our city laid off workers in the court system as well.

However, the Kohls in my city is one of the top 5 most money making Kohls in the US. Go figure.

[Purrrfect]

On 4/7/2015 LipstickDiva said:

It depends on where you live. Unfortunately I live in an area that is still depressed. Houses are selling a little better but they are selling for well below market value. There are 2 houses on my street that are vacant and have been vacant for at least 2 years and there are 3 houses on my street for sale that have been for sale for well over 1 year.

Sears Hardware stores all up and closed in my area and there is a lot of chatter that our local mall is closing. The Steel Plant just laid off a little over 200 employees due to the declining oil and gas markets. Our city laid off workers in the court system as well.

However, the Kohls in my city is one of the top 5 most money making Kohls in the US. Go figure.

Your post is worthy of quoting.

It gives others an insight as to what is really going on in many parts of the country.

Some need to take the rose colored glasses off.

In my local area, things are looking up, way up, but I won't try to convince anyone that's it's that way for all Americans.

[HiLo]

On 4/4/2015 Cakers1 said:

On 4/4/2015 HiLo said:

On 4/1/2015 Cakers1 said:

On 4/1/2015 Qwackertoo said:

On 4/1/2015 Cakers1 said:

Who in the world said they want the economy to go backwards?? Or can't admit that things are better? Things are NOT better everywhere. That's a realistic and truthful fact.

It gets really old seeing the same thing thrown out around here. The economy is on an uptick but there are still folks hurting. Why can't some of you admit to that???

Sheesh - next we'll get the usual "you just don't like who is in office" schtick.

Agree Cakers1.

I'm certainly not one to break out the pom poms and be a cheerleader for things that are not cheer worthy.

Nor will I break out a tin foil hat and spew doom & gloom.

It is what it is. The numbers don't lie. Good. Or. Bad. Or. In-between.

And I sure as heck don't go around "cherry picking" to fit either party.

edit left out a word.

It's annoying to constantly read that posters want the worse to happen

Just who are the posters who "want the worse to happen?" Personally, I'm looking forward to a higher interest rate for a few CD's on which the interest rates are at the bottom. I would certainly like to have a few extra bucks in my pocket; the cost of everything is so high I am just about breaking even. I try to be realistic about everything and this subject is no exception.

HiLo: You are misinterpreting these posts.

Cakers: I am simply quoting from the post above which plainly says that "posters want the worse to happen". What is my misinterpretation of that statement?

[kzeks]

On 4/7/2015 lulu2 said:

On 4/6/2015 Kzeks said:

We went through the same thing...

We would watch the same thing happen to our investment..

At one time we lost quite a bit... It was a cause for concern..

All our friends were going through the same thing. Some of them

shuffled their investments around and paid dearly for the mistakes.

Our Financial Advisor would tell us to just sit tight and ride the

wave... That wave had us really sea-sick...

We never touched the investments and just waited it out...

Then in the last few years things turned and are going very well.

Praise God...

I was going to suggest you edit your post. That was a wise move.

Yes, sometimes I put toooooo much info here ... I figure most people

do not know who I am so it does not matter.. and the few who post

here and know me well enough would not say a thing...