Black Friday Fizzles With Consumers as Sales Tumble 11%

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Maybe these big corporations will begin to understand

when you kill the middle class, put all of the wealth and hope with the one percent at the top, the economy dies. We don't have the money to spend that we used to. We have cut Christmas spending down to a third of what it once was. We are driving a 12 year old car and praying it stays in one piece while ignoring the squeaking of the brakes telling us we will have another big expense coming soon.

20 years ago we would have been upper middle class professionals, buying a car every 3 years, being able to fix our home when it needs it, giving a great Christmas to our family. Instead we are just getting by, putting off cars, day to day things including new glasses until we can't wait any longer. We see our neighbors losing their homes and cars.

If the economy is good, or getting that way, it hasn't trickled on us yet, I doubt it ever will.