Why these good times feel so bad

[JBinKC]

These aren't necessarily good times for many people. It appears people continue to get squeezed at their jobs thanks to the term "outsourcing" and your job is at risk as long as there is someone qualified to do it for less. You can thank world trade. Unfortunately, a big portion of the thriving US economy creates nothing and is about regulation, compliance and asset shuffling. Hopefully you are one of the privileged few that work for Goldman Sachs.

What makes it worse is a large portion of the population has few skills or the ability to adapt to these rapid changes without lowering their standard of living.


Regarding the strength in the stock market: It has been heading higher not on traditional things like interest rate indicators but rather responding to lower oil prices.

[LuxLiving]

Hey BA, watch that foot buddy, I've got a family member making a more than decent living selling that deer urine (FOR REAL peeps!).

You can't win for losing can you??? hahaha!!

Keep those hunting guys up the tree -- my family's livelihood depends upon it!

Economy? Ehhh, bleck! Hubster has not had a decent COL raise in a coon's age and is one of those in an industry that thrives off of the booming 'retail' economy. Lot of his company's problem is the majority of the workers do not care about producing a decent product, but only on Friday's 3:00 pay envelope. Count us as being some of those caught in the 'not necessarily good times'.