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Oh woe is me.

That's for all y'all saying the economy is so bad. I wonder who's
buying
all these middle class homes? I wonder who's buying all the cars? I
wonder
who's getting all the jobs and promotions?
.

"Whaddaya mean, run out of buffalo? Whoever heard of such an idea? I
just saw a herd a couple of days ago. Must still be plenty left." Wm
Cody, 1891 (not, just for purposes of illustration)

I never said the economy was bad. What I did say was that more people
than ever before are able to buy $1mm boats, and that more people than
ever before are working without as basic a benefit as health insurance
and cannot individually afford the premiums to pay for it with after
tax dollars. Is either one of those statements untrue? No, both are
correct.


Business has never been better for most every industrial customer I see.

It has been going like an old chain saw over the past few years for
them..............revs up........sputters..........revs
up...........sputters.........

It has now been purring consistently for enough months for these plants
to
be hiring new employees and putting on additional shifts. They have also
been ordering new durable goods (machinery) and expanding their
buildings.
You don't do that with an uncertain economy or one which 'sputters'. ;-)

There will always be the uneducated and the unmotivated not willing to
put
in the time and hard work to make it happen for them. No President will
be
able to change that.


The change in the economic landscape transcends politics. If the D's
were in office right now, or if someother party not even invented yet
had the WH, things wouldn't be much different.


So you gave Clinton credit when the economy was good during a short time
when he was in office............... and now the story is different? ;-)

Is that how it goes?



One reason that so many of the new boats being introduced are 35 feet
and larger and $350,000 and up is that seems to be where the market is.
Wally Lunchbucket, with his job at the widget plant paying enough to
drive two fairly new cars, pay off the mortgage on a cozy little tract
house, help out with the kids's college bills, and still afford a
decent boat for cruising or skiing is an endangered species- and for
reasons that have a lot to do with global economics, computerization,
and other issues that are not in the least bit political.


Yet a previous post of yours showing statistics on Q1 2006 vs Q1 2005 boat
sales in your area showed that all but the 18 feet and under new boats were
selling good. Go figure. ;-)