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Originally Posted by Gerco
I don't know much, but I do know that I have not seen 6+ dollar gas this summer. Things "seem" to actually be picking up around here. There is also a calm that I have not seen in a long time. If you head down to the local hardware store,(the local hangout for the older locals) No one is up in arms, bitching about all the stuff they where bitching about under bush etc... all of a sudden the topics are more about local life again, fishing, how the families doing etc.
Using that as kind of a "happy meter" I would say that there has been improvement.
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Wow. Thats great. Because I have not seen any of that. Everywhere I go all I hear about is how bad things are. It really is pretty depressing. I hear business owners scared to death about new regulations and are not hiring because of it. I hear about large business no longer even bidding on construction projects and are "going to coast this one out" because they do not dare to bid because they dont know what laws will be passed next and will cause them to go bankrupt.
That company that is coasting it out is not a small business. They have over 200 people working for them, not including subcontractors.