People in the US how bad is it really ?
 

How bad is the financial situation really over there. We hear and see all of this on the news but what is it really like. Are people really cutting back on spending. Is the situation really as bad as what they are saying.

From my point of view living in the UK and dealing with people from all walks of life every day, there is def a tighting of peoples spending habits and over the last few months it seems to be getting worse. Im in the recruitment game and we are seeing a huge cancellation rate compared to 8 months ago. When we send out a questionare as to why they canceled. 99% of them say they can no longer afford the membership or have lost thier job. In one area we saw a drop rate from 16000 members down to just over 9000 which is unprecidated in my line of work.

It must not be bad enough yet. I see more people complaining than doing.

Here in Miami we only resort to eating the flesh of the dead about once a week right now....




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I, personally, haven't experienced anything negative from the recession nor do I know anyone that has. Well no, I know one, but they haven't been tightening their wallets. Still buying new cars and shit.

how is it in the uk?

We're all trying to get by. I've cut back on my cocaine consumption and only eat in nice restaurants 3 times a week now.

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Ask us next week...
Day to day seems normal but I hear from shops that people are being more frugal...
After Greece defaults then US, if it happens...will be interesting to see and horrible to experience.

Programs we promote who should be doing fat rebills have dropped to 10% of what they used to do...

This bad?
http://news.yahoo.com/dont-caught-ho...191153227.html

that was written by a Forbes analyst on Saturday...

a few telling things in that article, one being that in the last year the amount of credit card transactions in the u.s. to buy gasoline has risen 39 percent.

Its Horrible out here. Instead of eating crab and lobster on the Private Penthouse/FFN Jet we had to eat Pasta, sandwiches and shrimp..

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One of my neighbors has ripped out the extensive landscaping nest to his house and is growing his own pot. Much to the anguish of our home owners association. But, a penny saved ..... (can you grow cocoa plants in Florida, just curious)

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terrible I would not be happy with that at all if i were on the home owners association. You should run him out of his house and use his garden for cocoa plants :2 cents:

Nice photoshop and very well done to :thumbsup

I'm in NYC/NY, so any recession always hits us last, if at all. More rich people moving into the city, those who could afford to move out did so long ago, many holding on to mortgages/rents since they can't sell/rent for a profit. But it's Manhattan so it's still the center of the Universe (sorry folks, but it is) so you have to kind of look under the surface to see the middle class people who live here barely hanging on. But you see it; less shopping at the grocery store, Korean green markets complaining, lots of empty taxis....less locals hanging out at the street cafes (tho tourists still pack 'em, you can always tell)...stores that have been around for YEARS closing all the time (and people WEEPING, literally, on the telly: "Why did they have to raise the rent on H&H Bagels from $1200 per month, as it had been for thirty years, to $24,000?" The store sits empty now...)

Outside of the NYC area? Fucking scary. Millions out of work, everyone fighting with each other over nonsense while the rich laugh and get richer, the poor doing their work for them (killing each other)...

Meanwhile, I try to sell porn and save my nickels. :)



Can I live where you live, pretty please? Preferably somewhere close to this neighbor of yours...:D

fucking terrible one of our top recruiters only earned 7k GPB last month :Oh crap

well don't fight wars it cost to send soldiers. :2 cents:

Im deadly serious that was really the top recruiters earnings last month. I came in at num 17 out of 186 recruiters accross the UK

On a serious note, YES. The economy and way of life has changed for America's middle class. Between Wall St. stealing retirement funds and management positions that will never return the quality of life has changed ... And won't get better for those people.


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Empty houses everywhere. Many selling around 50% of what the town/city have them appraised at. Im not just talking the poor areas either. I just looked at a house appraised in the mid xxx,xxx selling for half that. It has been on the market for 8 months now.

Photoshop?
LOL? WTF?? Really?

Actually you are right. Here is another of me and my Pet Taya Parker getting onto our G5.

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Again. Photoshopped.
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Shit, that jet's at least two years old. Loser.


lol

Over here it seems to be certain counties and other counties which we work had a pretty big membership increase, so whether it will spread to the wealthier counties in the comming months or years I dont know.
But that membership decrease which i mentioned above was the first time they have ever had anything like that happen in that county before.
We had a meeting about it today and we were all pretty shocked because for the whole of last month we had a good increase accross most of the UK.

Its not as bad as news let's on. People are working, money is still being made.

Like I said. Times are rough.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:winkwink:

When they called security and threw you out of the airport did you tell them you were BP4L?

gangsta^... It is like anything that needs to check and balance, I had the best year in business after 12 in it ....Brick and mortar.

If I ever meet you people, I would like to kiss her feet if that is cool with you :upsidedow

Seriously? Who the fuck rolls in a G5? I thought a G6 was the in jet now?

Tough times man. To charter a G5 for what we did is about $90k.. Anything more would be outside our budget.

^^^ Thats totally no bullshit. BP was in absolute disbelief when someone handed him a sandwich.

http://www.mrpheer.com/pics/bpsammich.jpg

The main thing I see here is houses sitting empty. There is a neighborhood in my town where probably 20% of the houses are for sale and empty. They are all foreclosures and they are having trouble selling them even at greatly reduced prices. I drive by a real estate office almost every day on their reader board right now they have an ad up for a house in town that is 3 bedroom, big kitchen, big yard, in ground pool, bonus room and "very nice" for $224K. Three years ago a house like that would have gone for $350K+

Not sure where these guys live but the US is just fine. Drive around and you would not even know anything had happened. Yep people lost their house and soome lost their jobs but that was about it. Everything is pretty normal now.

Its fine.

I live in a state least hurt by the great recession and it is still noticeable.

People are still too good to work for fast food joints, so it looks like everyone is doing great.

about the same here... any shopping center you drive by has lots of empty stores. lots of places for lease up and down parts of town that were once busy... some parking lots pretty much empty most of then day etc...

The very rich are greedily keeping it all to themselves.

Yea those selfish bastards probably earned it.......

What I'm seeing is times are quite tough, but it's having some good effects. 10% unemployment means friends are without jobs. On the other hand, people who used to bread about their $200 shoes now brag about the great deal they got at the second hand store. Thrifty is in. Webmasters tell us that sales are way down.