Something fishy about the economy.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Here in Hicksville USA,things are a bit different.

Typical Red state,only part time jobs available and those come with short hours. National Companies with retail and manufacturing are not making any investment in their plants or any other improvements. As the Midwest and the East Coast,as well as the West Coast are humming along,here in the Intermountain West we are not seeing any increase of activity. Who in there right mind wants to move to a area that has only Right to work for less rules and crummy Health Care available. Our real economic base is retirees and a very small middle group of income people. The housing bust has caused so much disruption that it will be 3 to 5 more years before there is any real recovery. You won't read or hear about this in any media because it's all about ad revenues.

The Holiday sales numbers were pretty pathetic this year,down about 7 to 10%. That's the facts,see the numbers every day. Retailers are still running Black Friday pricing and inventories are way out of line. People are tapped out. Our best and consistent customers are the Snowbirds. The young families are up to their eyeballs in debt,homes under water,tons of kids,three dollar plus fuel,major price increases in groceries. Karma is biting them in the ass and they blame it on President Obama. Yah right,get real kiddies and turn off Faux Noise.