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More money than ever befor is expected to be spent
...for Halloween. An expected seven billion dollars...and yet the economy is supposed to be in dire straits...with people suffering from loss of jobs and low paying jobs.
No doubt there has been a shift...but for Americans to be able to spend seven billion dollars on a stupid (in my opinion) holiday like Halloween should show that things are not as bad as the media likes to put in our face on a daily basis.
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Americans like to live beyond their means. I'd bet a lot of that seven billion dollars was charged.
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In the store I noticed that the plastic pumpkins kids carry around was selling for $1 but a plain ol' plastic bowl only twice as large for people to put candy in to distribute was selling for $10. I am still trying to figure out how 2x the amount of plastic was selling for 10x as much. If everybody in America bought two plastic bowls there goes the entire $7 billion. |
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Read the news, the recession is over and has been for a while. If you are still out of a job it is because you are unskilled.
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No matter what the median amount is...more money than ever before...in our history...is expected to be spent for Halloween. BTW your numbers are skewed as only 7 out of 10 people celebrate Halloween.
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Or unwilling. Lots of the people complaining about work are not willing to take a job that is Less than what they had. So they stay unemployed.
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The point is that when the unemployment rate was lower and people had higher paying jobs they spent less on Halloween than they are expected to spend with a high unemployment rate and lower paying jobs. The point is people in general apparently are not as bad off as the media portrays on a daily basis.
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Also, this is a holiday for the children. It's likely that people did spend a little more on this holiday, as they will for Christmas. This should not, and frankly could not, be used to judge the health of our economy.
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here is a true story...
at a party this weekend and talking to a cousin-in-laws friend. she was complaining about how they have no money and her husband can't find a job, they have their heat set to 68 degrees, blah blah blah. then she says "i cant believe how expensive Halloween costumes got." she goes on to tell me that her and her husband spent over $300 on costumes between them (for two nights), their two kids and their dog! just goes to show why some people are so poor ![]()
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And as someone posted above.. I can't imagine how many people simply charged the stuff they bought.. Doesn't say a thing as to the state of the current economy though. But at least 7 billion sounds like a really big number that people can use to try and prove that everything is A OK in the US... |
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A recession is when the economy has negative growth for two quarters in a row. The economy has had positive growth for the past several years. High unemployment does not define a recession. BTW...it is my opinion that the new unemployment numbers will now be the norm with minor fluctuations....just as in the past 4 or 5 percent was the norm.
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What would be wrong with cutting back on the heat, and other things to give your kids something special twice a year and how would that go to show why some people are poor?
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We bought about $40 in candy. Then this weekend my wife comes home with a huge box of candy. She's involved in a sports league and one of her jobs is running the snack bar, and at the end of the season everything that is left over gets given away. Last football game was Saturday, so we have a ton of food and candy now...
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What % of that went to the Chinese? Makers of most of the poor quality items these people were probably buying.
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"it is expected that (more) Americans will spend more money," you say. It's also expected, by some, that any day now Obama will be proved to be not a natural born citizen, that he will release his full communist dictatorship plan, and that martian invaders will be revealed.
"It is expected." By whom? Your next door neighbor? Is the claim of "more" adjusted for inflation? If not, even though there are MORE people than ever before, they may actually spend LESS, and almost certainly less per capita. Of course none of this will probably make sense to someone who still believes that more spending we can't afford means the problem is solved. Overspending, particularly on housing, is what CAUSED this mess. If it were true that Americans were, on average, doing more pointless spending, that would indicate we haven't learned anything and it's going to get worse. |
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I was actually listening to an explanation of the numbers yesterday on CNN...
The fact that so much is being spent on Halloween is actually a sign of HOW BAD THE RECESSION IS. Sounds counter-intuitive, but the lady was saying that an analysis of spending during holidays always indicated that Halloween spending goes up when the economy goes down. Her theory is that if people need to relax and enjoy themselves with a holiday, Halloween is an easy one because it's just a quick, cheap one day holiday with no gift buying. Christmas is the opposite. Makes sense to me.
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And overspending will always occur.. so long as the banks are can continue operating as they have been.. meaning, giving lines of credit to people who can't afford it... much like they did with the housing scandal. |
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i think what's happened here is that we (Americans) have cut back in so many other areas for our kids ie, vacations, theme parks, movie theater , clothing allowances etc. that most of us are trying to give a little extra for something our kids love. Halloween is huge here..HUGE..for whatever reason.
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has nothing to do with being unskilled. It's about the type of work that exists now. We've gone from a country that creates and manufactures, to a country that buys and sells.
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dropping 20-40 bucks on a once a year holiday for the kids somehow means the economy has recovered?
parents will always make a way for their kids to have some kind of holiday, no matter how meager. means nothing. fuck some of you are simple. |
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Consider this.. the housing market crash was only a part of it... what will people do when the entire credit system crashes... people can only accrue so much 'plastic' debt before the whole system falls. But what will be done when it happens... another bank bailout? probably |
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Most economists define a recession as a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, and by that definition we are certainly in a recession. GDP is a part of it, but so is job growth, income growth, industrial output and business sales. Basically, if jobs are plentiful, then the economy is doing OK. If jobs are scarce, the economy is poor. Anybody that tries to tell you that we are not in a recession is either a liar, a fool, or severely misinformed, possibly a combination of all three. |
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Spending money on halloween isn't as bad as the idiotic "celebration" we have over here next week.
Guy Fawkes. Bonfire Night. Whatever you want to call it. People spend a fucking fortune on fireworks. All you hear about after it is the amount of animals killed, and people injured etc. It's about time this ridiculous "celebration" was stopped... |
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First of all, we are SUPPOSED to see increases in income as the economy grows. It's built into the system. If it weren't the average American couldn't afford to eat thanks to inflation. And yes, I said nearly all income growth has gone to the top 1% and I meant it. What seems to have thrown you off is that they used this in % form and not actual dollars. If someone was making $10,000,000 per year in 1970 and kept pace with the others in their bracket they would be making $37,500,000 in 2007. A person making $12,000 in 1970 (bottom 20%) and saw an 18% increase in earnings by 2007 they would be making $14,160 per year by 2007. Do you have any idea how many variables go into that increase? For instance, how many times was minimum wage increased in the last 27 years? You can't compare gaining 18% of your pissy ass check to someone making 275% more of the millions they already make. The amount of dollars difference is infinitely more. I posted a chart to a % of income overall. If it had stayed on the same track from previous decades the average household income would look like this. ![]() And what's even worse is the fact that real wages and salaries have actually decreased over the last few years. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/20...le-recovery/#h[] Quote:
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It is being reported that the Halloween spending will be a median of $72.00 per family.
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Please quote me where I have ever stated that the "economy is ok"....sport. You cannot because I have not "ever" made such a statement.
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One thing no one has mentioned is there are more people on food stamps than ever before (15% are now on food stamps), and I believe you can buy candy with them. Much easier to buy candy when you're not actually paying for it.
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You started this entire thread under the premise that because Americans as a whole spent 7 bil on a holiday that somehow the economy isn't as bad as people make it out to be.. then you continue on to defend the notion that the economy is ok throughout all of your posts in this thread... sport
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I have stated in multiple threads that I do not think the economy is OK. I have stated that in my opinion the U.S. has seen its best days and is on the decline and a major...major...shift is going to take place within the next ten years or so. The new norm is going to be higher unemployment rates than in the past which was normally around 4 or 5 percent...lower paying jobs...and a lesser standard of living...and this will be at the best...of course just my opinion. None of it effects me or will effect me to any significant extent.
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I just read an article that spending on home video entertainment is up for the first time since 2008.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that people are spending money more wisely right now. If I take the girlfriend out to dinner and a movie I can easily drop $50-$75 depending on where we eat. But I can get a Netflix movie and make something at home for very little. I think the Halloween is the same thing. Families can afford to spend $20-$30 on something like this that the whole family can be involved in and have fun with. They just aren't doing other, bigger, things. |
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My brother might be a decent example. His wife got fired from her job several months ago and has not found anything since. He had been stressing and worried and counting every penny, but the company he works for just got several big new jobs so he knows he had job security for a long time so on his way home he stopped and bought his daughter the new iPhone to surprise her. Five months ago he would have never done that. If her phone had broken back then she would have gotten something cheap as a replacement. |
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I'm asking myself, why did I read a thread started by theking? After all these years, do I not know any better yet?
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