The economy is only doing well if you are in the top 10%. For everybody else, not so much.
because people do not know how to save and we live in an instant gratification society. 75 to 80 percent of the country lives paycheck to paycheck, no matter how the economy is doing.
------------------------------------- attitude is , keep spending and 'gwb' encouraged the spending by encouraging spending right after 911 . Attitude by my Parents and Grandparents and ME is be careful of what you buy because you have gotta pay for whatever you buy and always try to use cash . Plus food , we always had canned and preserved and bulk food and still do as preparation for unknown catastrophe . Nowadays , i hear that young dummies throw canned food out because of the 'best used by date' on canned food has expired .