flat and prices going up and up. The cost of food here is amazing, each week the prices spiral higher, and now the size of the packaging is shrinking. When I walk through Home Depot and Lowe's, for example, I'm amazing at the ever increasing costs.

And in grocery stores at least, ones frequent shopper card gets you less and less of a discount. Gas might be cheaper, but it's offset IMO by other spiraling costs. Now the rumor is property taxes are going to soar.

I'm really fed up with it all as are millions of Americans.

I've watched senior citizens dumpster dive in drug store garbage.
whole loaves of two day old bread and such.

same goes for what grocery stores toss.
It's all edible and as a story I heard on NPR radio went;
"We americans are use to 'perfect' fruit and vegetables'

ya know,
we americans are not as picky when 'free' is the key

of perfectly good food. Around here there are discount bread stores from the factory. It's a huge discount and I swear it's hard to tell the difference between it and the bread in the regular store, same make/type. This is such a wasteful country, it's horrible.

Because the most important ingredient in any good con is confidence.

You can Not fool and cheat people if you don't have their confidence.

Note it's consumer confidence they want not citizen's trust. They want you out there believing the economy is good so you will go into more debt to buy crap you don't need. They don't want citizens out their trying to get their democracy to work.

Mine's at a momentary low.

nice article on economy in May will it reflect from may which causing a critical measure of consumers

as though "the economy" were a tornado or a hurricane or some other horrible natural event that strikes without cause or reason.

They are upset because we have a political class that is corporate-owned and actively impoverishing them.

I have been at stores this month, and trust me, people are spending like crazy. My Realtor friends cannot take a day off, as homes are being sold in bidding wars. Everyone I know has purchased a new car this year. Seriously EVERYONE. It's always about gas prices, and the corporate owned media (FOX especially,) who want you to believe that we are near a financial collapse. Ask my Fox News/Glenn Beck fan neighbors.. they're convinced we're going to have a Depression this year.

My neighborhood I see rotating realtor signs on the same property every quarter.
People selling here want to break even and the property values say
"NO" not this year

everyone you know purchased a new car this year/...



well,
I won't go there since you may not have the sense of humor to read into your own statement.

I call this Poll BULLSHIT

It is currently at 12,425 and heading down.