No answer to my question on one, maybe on two?

More empty then full sadly.



Closest strip mall is running about 75% vacancy not counting the anchors.



Starting to see a TON of "for sale" signs in the very, very wealthy part of town. Two people that I know with a combined wealth of pushing the $1B mark are both flat broke, one is liquidating, the other is getting close.



This tax season is gonna be a killer for sure.

Everything is going according to the plan.  Countless small businesses, cottage industries, even small companies owned by a few partners are just too much trouble for the governments to control and bleed.  If they are eliminated and all services, business, and industry are done by large corporations then governments have a lot fewer entities to deal with when they need to control and bleed.  Big corporations are happy to ban firearms, require lie detector tests, drug test everyone, and invade privacy in all kinds of ways in the name of security and they don't have that pesky old Constitution in their way like the governments do.  See how it all works out?

Go to any small town that has a Walmart and see all the businesses that died when that Walmart came in.  Many of those businesses were not paying proper homage to the federal government and just doing things the way they thought best.  Now the feds have much more control over significant retail commerce in those little towns without even having to send anyone there.

It's a little place called Whore Island.

Shit, that's the only growth industry going.

....and you know what happened to Mussolini.





 

Resident, you?

It is, which is why Zero "needs" an extra $50 Billion more.



 

My grandfather got to poke at his swinging corpse

said it was pretty fucked up by the time he saw it



 

I noticed today that two business that shared a building at the end of my street are gone .
One was a locksmith who's biz is mostly mobile , so it was no surprise that they closed
the storefront , but the other was a liquor store that's been there for as long as I can remember .

Another change I've noticed in the past two months is the drastic increase of " For Sale " signs
on single family homes in this neighborhood . On one street , 12 out of 15 homes are for sale .
I went online to see what they were going for . Every one of them is still over valued by at least
50% so I don't see them moving any time soon . Almost makes me happy that I signed over
my last house to the Ex wife in the divorce . Since I know damn well that I couldn't sell it today for what
it cost me to build it 10 years ago

There ain't no more little guys in my "'burg." Everything is now "big box this, big box that." My 'burg used to have 3 mom & pop hardware stores, now it is down to zero.

When a liquor store goes out of business, you know the economy is fucked.

I know what you mean OP. Here in suburban Detroit, most of the "fun" places you went to 2 years ago are out of business now, and half of your old employers are gone too. It's getting to the point that even places that sell somewhat essential goods are closing up. Strip malls are 40% or more vacant in areas that had heavy consumer traffic-nothing is moving, nothing is selling.

But the bars are doing a bang up business on weekday nights with all of the Obama dollars the unemployed are getting,..... I work afternoons and the bars I pass that were dead at 11:15PM are packed any day of the week now.

Reguardless of welfare checks, black and even mexican voters are not displeased with obama, it amazes me how many of my latino and black friends of my age, all hard working none of them collecting, love obama right now, its beond me.
proving to the majority of these people that obama is realy a bunch of shit has not been a easy train for me, and trust me im trying

considering what happened during prohibition and during a depression at the same time, that does not supprise me.

Lakehood  

My condolences.