Maybe at long last the economy will shift somehow instead of being dependent on people running up credit card debt to buy cheap Chinese junk at big boxe stores like Walmart. One can only hope.

In terms of stores trearing workers fairly, Costco does that pretty well.

There's none near me so that means driving way over town to get to one. In all fairness I should say I was able to get what I wanted the last time I went but I mainly waited on myself as I usually do in most stores. The check out line was kind of long but I get through in about 15 minutes so that was no big deal.

There is a new harsh economic bifurcation now. For the properly skilled and educated there is an improving job market but for today's equivalent of yesterday's ditch diggers there is very little to nothing at all. We have this new permanent underclass and well there's no real place for them.

I see no strength in this economic "recovery" at all. As has been pointed out, spending is up because prices are up which points to a deflated dollar. I don't know, maybe well paid federal employees can still eat at Chili's, Olive Garden etc. but for me that lifestyle is long gone. After I pay my bills, most of the res...more

We've reached build out and we're not handling it well. There is the perception that huge companies like WalMart have a strangle hold on the economy making ma and pa entrepenuership a thing of the past. This last is more perception then reality. Finally wages are at a very low level while the cost of living is quite hi...more

I believe it would be similar.

*dislike*

I dislake the ACA mainly becuase it relies on a dubious Medicaid expansion for the lowest paid workers that are uninsured and it drops a nasty mandate on the next income tier of uninsured workers that can ill afford it. We are not about to be blessed with a new robust health care system. Instead we are getting a poison...more