Quote from bxptone:
Live in NYC, staying in Patterson/Carmel NY for now. I guess NYC is doing better then most because I thought things weren't that bad, until today.
Don't really wear jewelry anymore, so went to pawn a gold necklace today. I get into the parking lot (small store) and there were several cars. Being a concerned with my image as I am, I'm like great all these people are going to be in there buying diamond earings, laughing at this guy pawing his chain lol. Well I get in there, there's 5 people in the store. ONE, is actually buying, then there's me and 2 ladies that were selling jewelry. And another lady that saw my necklace and was wondering how much I thought I would get for it! lolol. Guess she was getting ready to unload too. All at 1030am on a beautiful Saturday spring morning. Not a great sign. And it didn't seem as if they were selling these items because gold and commodity prices or so high, seemed more like they needed to sell.
A really sad situation this so called, great country is in. I guess it is great in the sense of the beauty of the land and all it's resources. But dam, to get to where we are now? It's full of and run by, the stupidest dam people to ever walk the earth.
And recession, no recession, WHO F'IN CARES ABOUT A WORD, You have people, several million people in bad financial situations. You now have people struggling to put food on the table, you have gas prices rising to obscene levels. We don't need gov't numbers to tell people how THEIR lives are or what they can or cannot afford.
Because you felt terrible, does that mean we officially have a recession?
Why dont you wait till Wednesday when the GDP numbers come out and than we'll talk about it.