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Some of us felt with spring comming the economy would pick up in our area.. But not.. a different segment of people are getting hit now (at least in our area)
GM shut down our local Chevrolet dealership and they are selling used cars as of this week. GM sent all the lots new units back. Driving down town and seeing a bascially empty car lot is weird. The people I know that have worked in the dealership since high school are getting real nevous. A couple of them are in there 40s and have not worked anywhere else.
Restruants have closed. A man and his wife had worked in a local lumber yard and hardware store since high school branched out to lease space in that same business and had a successful Radio Shack and US Celluar business. Radio Shack and later US Celluar came in and took his fanchize away. I was in the store the week after he was shut down. The man and his wife will get no income at the end of this month. The lumber yard where he has worked his whole life had just let his replacment go and another lumber yard let another employee go this past month. School Superintendets are calling retired teachers to come and teach half time so they can let full time teachers go to save money for insurance and retirement payments. A local title agency is down to one (the owner)
I went into the office twice this week and no business at all. The owner strated walking to work. A local feed store is about to close. He claimed he used to keep cases of fly spray now only orders five cans at a time.
Our town is the county seat. Two real estate offices are closed. This time of the year school buses are usually are buzzing around with school activities not this year. Even the bus drivers are getting cut for their drivng time on the trips they do not go one.
When the ecomony started going down I worried about it but now I see people I have known for years out of work with out much warning. Even the established Wal Wart employees hours are cut way down.
But gas prices and fertlizer prices are heading up more just this week. They added $50 ton on fertlizer this week. One guy thinks he can play poker to support his family he just won a used pickup and several rolls of barb wire and fence posts.
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