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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (630711)	10/6/2011 9:43:30 PM
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I pass two strip malls on the way into Poughkeepsie. One has 4/7 stores MT. The other 9/10 MT. I've never seen anything like this. Never. The lone store in the one strip mall is called Pop's Deli. I have to stop in there and get this guy's story. He's got a big American flag hanging out front. Open 5AM to 5Pm.... 6 days a week......72 hours. The first rate deli/mini grocery I frequent is in another strip mall that has weathered things pretty well. All stores occupied and the deli is the prime attraction in the strip mall. I know the owner pretty well and often ask him how is it going. Same story all the time. Business down about 15% since the recession started and simply has not recovered. Told me he is 55 in his prime earning years and should be salting the money away. Has no SS or retirement plan. Doing OK but just hanging on. Feels trapped with no where to go......12 hours a day 7 days a week. A recession? I'd say so. Some places are hit harder than others. Where I live, people are not having a hard time getting work, and real estate prices have held up -- but that probably is a result of the tourist economy here and the fact that people from surrounding areas tend to vacation closer to home when the money is short. My brother runs a retail business in S. Arkansas and they're breaking revenue records every month -- by a wide margin. But overall, the country is just in a mess. And I'm a little sick of the blame game. It is what it is. I don't really believe government can do much about it other than establish reasonable tax policy and promote economic/business stability. But we're not doing either right now. It is really sad to see the country in this mess. I think the depth of it says something about how we got here, though -- it isn't Obama, it isn't Bush -- it goes way, way back. IMO, to the 30s.

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