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Well I just got my new assessment on my property from the town and it has dropped $40K.  What does that tell you? Unemployed is at an all time high here and the illegals my state of CT tried to send back to Mexico have been given a pass and work visas by that inept president Obama. Things are not any better here.  

My advice to turn the economy around would be to fire Obama and co, get new leaders who can make the USA energy independent, drill for our own oil, look into nuclear energy since we now know how to produce it safely, cut federal spending, down size the government, cut cooperate taxes and give incentives to hire legal American's and not illegal immigrants. Illegals do not keep the money they earn here, they instead send it back to their families in Mexico. This does not help our economy when the money doesn't go into it. I'd also pull our troops home instead of spending money to keep them over seas in countries we do not belong in. We can put them to work guarding our borders. With enough troops watching the borders, we would not have to invest billions or trillions building a fence to keep them out. That's just a start of what I would do. 

Colleen

" I would probally build the fence."

Why? That's why we have a military. We can keep them employed that way while we keep our nose out of other countries business.

Health care is a whole other thing. It needs to be left to the people. The government has no business forcing health care on the people.

Colleen

They can't. That's why Obama care should never ever see the light of day. It needs to be killed before it kills all the people the government deems useless. This would be the elderly, the handicapped and the welfare recipients. They would be the first to be killed off. The cost of getting rid of them would be factored into the exorbitant cost of the "health care" package and dumped onto the people who are fit enough to work.

We have like the rest of the country also experienced a loss in property values, however nothing as bad as the rest of the country. My property value has decreased approximately 15% since the height of the market which is unheard of. The region of Pennsylvania where I live is still a sought after area for retired folks, who have the bucks to spend. My son lives in central Florida on the gulf coast and his property is worth 20% today of what he bought it for seven years ago.

We need a new government. We need a new President. People willing to uphold our constitution.

It is the worst I have ever seen in this country. 1 in 2 is at the poverty level and 1 in 4 is below the poverty level. We need jobs more than anything else.right now to get out of this mess.All our Jobs are going to China. The next president has to make this a priority before our country collapses... We are spending way too much money on defense to police the world, while we desperatly need the money here and giving other countries money, that we cant afford to give.. I live in NH. The unemployment rate is 5.3% here. Not as bad as most other states. Our  housing prices have dropped too. I have two sons who live in CT. and it is really bad there.. Many more people are homeless or at brink of homelessness..I know contractors here in my area who have hired illegals while residents of our state were looking for work. Greed that all it amounts to. I watched the presidential depate in Iowa last night and Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman make more sense than any of the other canditates, but dont the credit they deserve.

Its bad in New Mexico,housing market is down . We have lost construction jobs .I heard that we have lost 30,000 jobs in the last year . Fore closed homes every where ,many business are closed . People who have been in business  for 20 years  are now gone closed up and done for good .Seems like the rent just keeps getting higher and higher no relief in sight . In Albuquerque  we have I think 12 Indian casios and 14 Wal Mart Super Centers so any hope of small business  surviving is zero. They say when watching the news is necessary to put a drip pan under the  TV to keep the blood off the carpet .We are the overdose capitol pf the country . Thats how it is here .     Bill

They just reported that for the first time a poll taken reported that most people in the US have lost hope, about our economy, the lack of jobs, the congress...

I heard this joke and just love it...

A boyscout was visiting his congressman. the congressman asked what was the difference between the boy scouts and congress.  The boy scout answered "We have adult supervision"

Whats wrong with America is we wont say no . We buy things from companies who have sold us out and sent jobs over seas . They have no care  for us and still we put money in their pocket.We allow out of control immigration  and say nothing .

Colleen

Sometimes we have no choice. Affordability plays a much larger role in this economy. The smaller stores have had to increase their prices to the point most can not afford to buy from them. This is why Walmart will still get the business. I know I shop there but mainly for my pet's foods. Pet shops and other stores are just too expensive to buy from. I have a lot of birds and they go through a lot of food per week. I'd like to say no to Walmart but I cant afford to. I use to buy from the pert store just 2 years ago but I can no longer afford to do so because of their price increases.

Florida has been hit hard wth people loosing theire homes, yet they leave some of these less expensive houses empty where they should at least let those people pay some rent, so they have a place to live. Empty houses are infested with snakes and are falling apart. It does not make sense. In Arizona 1 in 2 houses are foreclosed or beeing foreclosed.Where are all these people going to go? There is a great lack of affordable housing in this country and its also the reason why we have so many homeless people.. The banks need to consider renting foreclosed properties out to these people instead of letting them beeing destroyed by vandals and infestes with critters.But are they listening and seeing the hardship it causes? No one seems to care.