You can quote Warren buffett all day long and list economic stats, but it dosent change reality for most Americans in the real world.
thunderstruckhd wrote:
Pay your bills and put food on the table with your economic indicators...
thunderstruckhd wrote:
Stats and poles and #s can be manipulated( glass half full / empty)and viewed differently and take time to catch up with whats happining now. When all the suppliers and buss. I deal with are cutting back, laying off and state their buss. are way off $$, and costs are soaring and people are not spending and loosing their jobs and can't feed their families and put fuel in their cars (all facts)your opinions and your stats don't mean squat.
thunderstruckhd wrote:
My stats came right off FBN, your response is incorrect and as usual you love to denie the facts and live in a fantasy land...
Are statistics good for supporting a position or are they bad for supporting a position?
Or are statistics only good when they can be used to support a particular position?
Oh well... You win some, you lose some...
As to stats, its like watching the weather and the forcast says sunny and you look out the window and its pooring rain. If the reality you see and feel and seems to be the same for almost everyone else, I'll take what I see over the stats anyday. I think they call it living in the real world...
As to stats, its like watching the weather and the forcast says sunny and you look out the window and its pooring rain. If the reality you see and feel and seems to be the same for almost everyone else, I'll take what I see over the stats anyday. I think they call it living in the real world...
I guess that means everyone is doing great, cause that's what I see around where I work everyday. People complaining about gas prices as they fill up their boats to go to the lake and drive their big SUV's to work.
2006 Toyota Tundra Crew Cab
2003 Skyline Nomad 24ft Fiver
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Maggie the Old English Sheepdog
I guess that means everyone is doing great, cause that's what I see around where I work everyday. People complaining about gas prices as they fill up their boats to go to the lake and drive their big SUV's to work.
And our RVs......
Dave & Mary
Isabel (a cuddly little Boston)
Buddy (The Beast) another Boston
2005 Itasca Suncruiser 35A
2003 Jeep Liberty
If it's listed in the Yellow Pages, the government shouldn't be messing around with it.
As to stats, its like watching the weather and the forcast says sunny and you look out the window and its pooring rain. If the reality you see and feel and seems to be the same for almost everyone else, I'll take what I see over the stats anyday. I think they call it living in the real world...
I guess that means everyone is doing great, cause that's what I see around where I work everyday. People complaining about gas prices as they fill up their boats to go to the lake and drive their big SUV's to work.
I'm not blind, therefore I have to disagree. Not EVERYONE is doing great. Talk to my brother, Bobby, he lives right there in Tijeras. He'll give you a different point of view.
Sure, I'll go to the lake, AND I will still complain about the extortant price of fuel and the state of the economy. Yes, I will fill up my little SUV, but I only use it to launch the boat. No more running around for me, NOR do we "Sunday drive" like we did in years past. No, I will NOT fill up the boat (like in previous years). NOW, I launch it close to the "fishing hole", and I run it at 30 mph (NOT 60). AND, the additional money that it takes to do this NO LONGER goes to other businesses (as I previously did). Sure, because you see me driving my motorhome (big diesel pusher), towing my little Blazer, you might be easily fooled in thinking I'm doing great, but little will you know that I'm going to Canyon Lake, 35 miles away, instead of Falcon Lake (much further). Yes, at $9 per day with 50 amp electricity, I can afford to stay for 5 days,...and observers might say that since there's plenty of us doing it EVERYTHING must be going just great. But, little do they know that most of them are doing the same thing that I am. PLUS, we will NOT be buying that Country Coach Intrigue that we might have (thought about it at one time).
I could say much more, but no doubt you get my drift.
Willie & Betty Sue
Miko & Sparky
2003 41 ft Dutch Star Diesel Pusher/Spartan
Floorplan 4010
Blazer toad & Ranger bassboat
It was just a little irony. If you don't want to believe statistics and view things around you to gage what's going on, then it gives you a view through a microscope. Of course there are people not doing well. Some are doing worse this year than last, but, not all, and, maybe not even a majority.
I also love the short term statistics. Things go bad for a quarter and everyone says the sky is falling. If it goes good for a quarter then everyone is a millionare. Everyone does what they can/want to do to adjust to the current economy. This isn't the worst I've seen and there have been far worse.
As long as the gov't messes with the system the worse it will get.
I notices a lot of you saying that your parks are full. That may be the case, but how many of those there are from a distant area, or are most of them locals. I know down here in Florida, (I'm a full timer) our park has very few travelers. Most are full timers or those that do come in are from within a three hour drive.
Don / Brenda
Full-timing / Ocala, Florida
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