Economy effecting everyone.

[moneysense]

The economy being bad is actually not a new thing, in actuality, it has been on a downhill run for the last decade.

The midwest has been especially hard hit due to the automaker layoffs, and unemployment rates have doubled and tripled in towns in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

Some of this was said to be due to a lot of us living beyond our means for so long.

Household income has dropped by 79 percent in some cities and towns. Nationally incomes have dropped by 4.3 percent.

Athens, Ohio has the highest poverty rate at 52.3 percent in the 2005 to 2007 period.

The bottom line, when you think about it is that jobs have been on the decrease for the last decade due to things like NAFTA, where are factories are being sent to other countries.

Someone on "the hill" needs to see to it that jobs are brought back and that the minimum wage is increased to the place where even part time workers are able to pay their bills.

[dimetime]

This is so true, if our country was not shipping off of its work off to other countries, then there would not be so many people with out work right now. Also increasing the minimum wage's would help a great deal as well, because as of right now if your lucky enough to have a part time job, your not able to work enough to make ends meet monthly.
We may all to often live outside of our means, though if the goverment would set a better example then maybe so would we.

[ClassyLady]

Our Governemnt has itsr head in wrong places. If they were to consentrate on the right things, we would not be in this mess!!

[dimetime]

Our goverment always seems to be looking into the wrong areas, rather than where they really should be.

Maybe one of these days there will be some miracle and the goverment will straighten itself out. Until then I guess all we can to is voice our opinions as much as possible and attempt to get them to understand what really is going on.