Quote Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
I'm not trying to be Chicken Little here, but the economy is not good and doesn't look like it will be getting any better any time soon. Holley just filed for chapter 11 ( Holley Performance Files for Ch 11 - AP - National Business News - Portfolio.com)

GM and others like IBM have had mass layoffs and "early retirement buyouts."

We had better get our heads out of our butts in this country and start building things here again. I think I heard something about for the first time in many years we are now buying more from other countries than we sell to them.

Every industry you look at is suffering right now from construction to automobiles. You almost can't give a new car or home away because people are afraid to spend any money.

Don

I am .....THE SKY IS FALLLLING!!!!!!!!!!!THE SKY IS FALLING>>>!!!!
We have group of about 50 people living under the river bridge at the mouth to the ocean.......and that is up by alot from previous years,alot of people moved away last year from our street becuase of the increased rent and cost of living,the studio hut across the street just was vacated a 900 a month and was rented the next week at 1300 .......
I just refilled my propane bottles and it cost 20 dollars a pop for 5 gallons ,up about 20 percent from last month.....mark my words the BOOM will be lowered in 2009...there are alot of laws on the books slated to take effect that year ...alot of laws.....
In the last few years I have been trying to not patronize the larger chain places and spend my money at the mom and pop places ,why give my money to a giant corperation that cares nothing about me ..only wants to make profit from me......well this age of make a profit off everything is coming to a end.....you know alot of things were invented to make life better and to help man ...profit was not the main motivator behind everything untill the last 30 years or soo... The sooner we ditch the money stuff the better this world will be...after all it would then be about how much you contributed to the world ,not the scale we have now ,which is how much can you take from the world as pretence to ones stature or rank in society........