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• 1. gowader  |  July 20th, 2008 at 11:34 am

  How about posting \"opening soon\" photos. Or post some help wanted ads that are in the paper. Quit trying to make something that may not be as bad as you think.

• 2. Pat Cunningham  |  July 20th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

  The statistics show the sharpest jump in business bankruptcies in several years, but you suggest that the statistics are wrong. And you offer nothing to support your view that the statistics are wrong. Thanks for your brilliant contribution. The more I think about it, Wader, the more I’m inclined to believe that you’re just kidding with all your idiotic comments here — just trying to annoy me. I mean, nobody can be that dimwitted.

• 3. Q Jordon  |  July 20th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

  I wonder what they will say when one of the big three American auto makers cease to exist.

  I have a bittersweet dilemma, one in which my COLA is going to be at the highest in a decade, however, this makes me upset because it shows that I have a mental condition in thinking it has to do with the economy.

• 4. gowader  |  July 20th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

  Pat I do not doubt the statistics. But have learned at little about them. You can make them say what you want! Do you know that Toyota is building another assembly plant in Texas? Why dont you do a story on them.

  GM is run by idiots that did not forsee the future past their quarter profits. They deserve to go out of business. That and their products suck. I put a new tranny in my new Impala because GM cant build quality. My next car will be a Camry, screw GM loyalty.

  And what is wrong with the econmy making an adjustment for years of poor spending habits. Americans are buying on credit with no credit left. This is a natural process where only the strong will survive. Have you ever heard the saying, “Dont build your house on the sand” it is in the Bible. And yes I am making fun alot. Just because you make it so easy. You are like a spoiled kid at times who can not get his way. Ha Ha! lighten up.

• 5. Leatherneck  |  July 21st, 2008 at 10:22 pm

  Some people write off all consumer spending as simply being abuse of credit cards. But that is inaccurate. A lot of those credit cards, like mine, are cards where the money comes out of one’s checking acct, not out of thin air. They look like credit cards, but they are check cards that we pay with real money.

  Day airplane trips to Niagara Falls SOLD OUT at Rfd. Airport. If there were a recession, people would not spend money on plane trips and travel. But here we go again~the media would have you believe that the airline industry is going bust and that we are in a recession. Go to an airport sometime and notice how busy it is.

  An expensive upscale “eatery” going in over there by Josef’s at Spring Brook and Perryville. Who will eat there? How can they afford it? How is the owner paying for it, if the economy is so bad?? Across the street at JMK Nippons, the sign says “NOW HIRING”. Parking lot is busy. Who are these people?
  Somebody pinch them and tell them the economy is bad.

  If the economy is so bad, tell me: who lives in these multi-million dollar mansions down the street, with the 7 car garages and heli-ports? They didn’t buy them with credit cards, folks. And it took more than a sub-prime loan, too. Are the occupants of these houses feeling the “pinch at the pump”?? C’mon now, their idea of hard times is if they have to go down to 6 Land Rovers instead of 7.

• 6. Henry  |  July 22nd, 2008 at 6:09 am

  Leatherneck -

  Your anecdotal observations don’t mean squat. Try looking at the data, instead of how long the lines are at Walmart (or some other such nonsense).

• 7. echo4charlie  |  July 23rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm

  I’ve got to side with Leatherneck (and yes, besides my thinking he is right, I am a former Leatherneck myself).

  The media is trying to “spin” a recession. I don’t think that we’re there. People just refuse to be convinced by the media that we’re in a recession, when we aren’t. They’re pumping money into the local economy, and keeping it stimulated.

  Restaurants are the proverbial “Canary in the Coal Mine” during any downturn in economic times. Yet, just try to get into any restaurant on any night of the week. Ever been to Lino’s on any week night. Don’t even bother without a reservation on the weekend.

  I think that the public just refuses to let the media run the show, and coerce fear.

  Besides, we’re all going to die someday, and, you can’t take any of it with you.

  Are you going to go out with a huge stockplie of money that you never spent. Be too old to enjoy the travel and experiences that you’ll find you wish you’d have done when you were younger, but now can’t, never have, and now never will?

  I’m not encouraging financial irresponsibility, and waste. I’m saying live….no matter what the media says.

  If you’re going to go out, go out on your feet. Don’t ever go out on your knees.

• 8. Pat Cunningham  |  July 23rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  Yeah, I couldn’t even get into Cheddars the other night. It had gone out of business.

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