View Single Post
Old 06-05-2008, 08:58 PM  
marketsmart
HOMICIDAL TROLL KILLER
 
Industry Role:
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Sunnybrook Institution for the Criminally Insane
Posts: 20,419
Quote:
Originally Posted by After Shock Media View Post
I do talk with average people (our consumers) often. Hell I speak with our neighbors almost every other day as my wife is best friends with my neighbors wife. They do not have an insane mortgage nor is it an ARM. They have small compact cars (yes plural because each needs one. One is oncall often and other needs it for job). No big screen tv's, no eating out often, 1 kid with a few activities (baseball, cub scouts, etc), no insane credit card debt. Neither works minimum wage, they have a mother down street who baby sits for free. Even still their buffer at start of year was 700.00 per month. As of last talk it was down to under 200.00 and like hell they dont even smoke and rarely drink.
i think you are one of the few that see the correlation between business and peoples declining discretionary income..

if the US does not start addressing alternative energy solutions now, we are going to be in a huge mess...

almost every other major country is building coal, hydro, and nuclear plants at record pace. the US doesnt seem to be doing anything...
marketsmart is offline   Share thread on Digg Share thread on Twitter Share thread on Reddit Share thread on Facebook Reply With Quote