In the mall, the kitchen shop, Merle Norman cosmetics, the two gift shops, eight more stores.....all gone. JCPenney devoid of customers and clerks, too. The clerks are complaining they're down to mandatory 4 hours a day work. No floor clerks at Kohl's to help you out, either. Try to find a floor clerk at KMart.
No service, no customers....or is it no customers, no service?
Almost all the private, family-owned-type restaurants are shuttered, only the impersonal chains remain. The small jewelry shops, the fruit shippers facility, our Outback closed, our Target closed.....need I go on?
Yes, we are in a Recession out here across the fruited plain.....but those governing from booming, government-sponsored DC evidently don't know it....or don't care to know it....or won't admit it.
Leni
The Mineral Family Investment Portfolio is doing well, but the Mineral Family Employment Situation has become spotty.
Main street is adjusting to the lower income or multi part time job life style. They are still spending but at a reduced level. The only people with raises are Wash DC suburbs of MD and northern VA. Stores, shops, restuarants are bustling in those areas and housing is booming. The other group making money is hi tech industries and Wall Street. Wall Street is the most perverted. They took bailout money to retire their bad financial bets in the derivative market. Instead of loaning money to Main Street to restart the economy per TARP and stimulus, they used it to buy US T Bills and make more derivative plays. If they profit they keep the money, if they lose money they will approach the US gov for a bailout because they are too big to fail. Obama was suppose to be the most anti Wall Street POTUS and under him per exec order he placed the US taxpayers on the hook for future derivative losses.