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Recession?: Do you believe the country is in a recession?
Comment: Everyone is in a recession but George Bush. from Pcola by L
Comment: i do think that we are in a recession and I think that our President has not helped enough. I am very appreciative of the stimulus money that he has created and congress has approved. However, due to the rising cost prices of gas and cost of food, we will not be able to ever get back to the way we once were until we come up off of dependence upon foreign fuel and exportation. It's sad that we were once the strongest nation in the WORLD but now we are the most scared for the future. from Mary Esther/FLorida by Amanda
Comment: Yes, I really do belive we are in a recession. Everything is costing more with less money in the paycheck. My, husband and I both work. But, yet with the price of gas going up we don't go out as much. And the price of groceries is out of this world so we eat more tuna,and a lot less steak's. from Jay,Fl. by Barbara
Comment: we are in a recession, it was inevatable. our good jobs were shipped to China leaving Americans with jobs that could not support their families with even the basic necessities like healthcare. the availability of easy credit and preditory lending allowed Americans to make up the lack of income by borrowing and borrowing more. coupled that with tax breaks to the wealthy only leaving local communities to raise property and sales tax to amke up the difference necessary to run our schools and fund fire and police caused further drain on American Families. Basocally we stimulated our economy on borrowed money and now the bill is due and we dont have the god payiong jobs we once had to pay it off, we,re bankrupt, shame on you Dr Hause, tell us the truth, we cannot recover with reversing tx breaks too the reich and geting better paying jobs to the American middlecalss from pensacoal by bob
Comment: Yes!!! We are in a recession… My husband and I made 91 thousand last year and e are about to file bankrupsiey. We are 3 months behind on our mortgage. We are not bad people! We take care of our daughters and try to get ahead in life. We can not. We do not spend money hap-hazzardly, we budget our life and try to make a life we told we were able to have.
We are not low income and not rich!....we are what 20 years ago would be middle income. We are being forced out and either one of us come up with something that makes lot’s of money or we sale our house and property, at a loss, and move in an apartment and let our house go.
I wanted our children to live and be raised in this house and never pull up roots. In the south roots are important. We will have to leave. My granddad told me long ago, “Only a good southern man will vote, Democrat!!!.” “ Never will a republican know what a true Southerner knows about the love of the land!”
Why do rich people not care about the working folk who make their lifestyle possible?? Republicans do not know how our work ethic and our heart is based on our home and family. The same base that built this country! I just want someone who will say, $91,000.00 a year, and you have the American dream. We had to pay $ 6,000.00 in taxes this year. That is my daughter dance lessons and ½ of their college fund.
My girls won’t go to YALE, but they will get more than I had! And they will make this Country better than what we have left them with at this point in history!
from milton, fl by sheri
Comment: Yes I do. Food prices are up, gas prices are up, people arent spending like they use to and there doesnt seem to be any help in site. And the stimulus package, as needed as it is, is probably not a good idea because it just puts the U.S. farther in the whole. We will all have to pay that money back one way or another. from Gulf Breeze, FL by Rachel
Comment: I teach in a school that pulls students from rural areas of Okaloosa County. The cost of fuel is going to hit some families hard, but so far most tell me that they will find a way to fill the tank. I'm going to conserve and count my blessings that I still have a job. from Holt by Ollin
Comment: if it looks, sounds, and smells like a recession....then it is a recession! from pcola by h
Comment: I think the only thing the word "recession" accomplishes is to put me in a deep depression. I am sick and tired of people in this country awaiting the word of the economists/finance gurus; then actually believing their prognostications. Recession or not, life goes on day-to- day; and what we choose to believe DOES affect our emotions and reactions. I prefer to look at it as the guys on Wall St. having a bad day and wanting company with their misery. from Mary Esther, FL. by Tom
Comment: Calling the current situation a recession is just a crutch for the greedy of the world to steal all the money from those who need all things to survive. And the sad thing is none of the powerful politicians around the world are not doing one thing about it!!!! from Millry,Al by Ray
Comment: We are really in bad shape.Gas prices have sored food prices are going up everyday people here are losing their homes.we as a nation are in terrible shape. from ft walton beach,fl by karen
Comment: I've watched as people have had to close businesses that was the only way of life they knew because the economy is so bad . Truckers selling their trucks and looking for other ways to support their families because gas prices are so high that it was costing them $1000.00 to fill up their trucks . What happened to the American dream . This is more like a nightmare that and nothing is changing!!! from Holt by Gene
Comment: Recession...RECESSION!!! It's not a myth. Recession is here. This is my generation's late 70's. from Pensacola, FL by Scott
Comment: Our boys in Congress should start having to pay social security and they to would start screaming recession. from destin, fl by judy
Comment: Everything in this country is going up to an elevation out of the reach of the average American with the exception of the average salary. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. When will banks, gas stations, airlines and other retailers learn that a little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing. The federal government has never bailed me out when I was in dire straits. Rather than make mortgages affordable, the banks foreclose and therefore get little to nothing. This country needs a major overhaul! from Gulf Breeze, Fl by Nancy
Comment: I believe the country is in a recession and those in the middle income and below are having to make some serious choices right now that they are not used to making. Those in the upper pay scales haven't felt that pinch yet and if they do then that means that the lower pay scales have bitten the dust. from Pensacola,Fl by Don
Comment: I feel the ecomony is taking a dive and we will be living in the days of the great depression soon so watch out they are already rationing how much we can buy what next??? from milton by m
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