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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1139606, member: 13650&quot;]I have to agree.&nbsp; In 2002 I had somebody tell me, &quot;Boy, I&#039;m glad I&#039;m not just graduating college now!&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Somebody else made this exact same statement to me last week. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I keep waiting to see this big turn around that&#039;s coming and what that may be but year after year passes and it doesn&#039;t come.&nbsp;&nbsp; What do you guys think the real unemployment numbers would be if you took out all city, county, state and federal govt. employees out of the equation?&nbsp; Unemployment would probably be 30-40% right now, just looking at the private sector.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; 20%.&nbsp; That&#039;s 1 in 5 homes (1.6 million) in Florida are sitting vacant.&nbsp; A once booming construction industry down there is gone.&nbsp;&nbsp; Everywhere from major cities to small towns are relying on infrastructure that is 60 to 100+ years old and crumbling!&nbsp;&nbsp; Look around the place!&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I look around my town and see roads crumbling to pieces.&nbsp; In some areas, it looks like Detroit.&nbsp; Vacant housing, roofs falling in, junk laying around abandoned.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is all happening gradually.&nbsp; And it&#039;s happening everywhere.&nbsp; There&#039;s no money out there to really fix anything up in the private or public sectors.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are so many towns that if a natural disaster wiped them out, they wouldn&#039;t come back.&nbsp; Nobody would invest the money to re-build.&nbsp; There&#039;s no money in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; My only point here is that things have/can deteriorate pretty badly and nobody will ever claim that we&#039;re &quot;done in&quot; as you say.&nbsp; That&#039;s not a defined point.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gradually, we get used to a new normal.&nbsp; After people look at a ghetto for so long, they gradually forget what &quot;nice, new, clean&quot; is and after a while, their neighborhood doesn&#039;t seem that bad anymore.&nbsp;&nbsp; The same thing is happening with this nations debt problems.&nbsp;&nbsp; After you look at 14 trillion for so long, 20 trillion doesn&#039;t sound so bad.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then 50 trillion won&#039;t sound so bad.&nbsp; Eventually, people have been worn down and won&#039;t really know what &quot;bad&quot; is at any point.&nbsp; I believe many people on this board have fallen victim to this loss of perspective.</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; I don&#039;t know what will happen but there are many old people that don&#039;t regret being old at this period of time.&nbsp; That should tell us something.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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