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The mindset of the country has been living on credit, Wages in this country have not kept pace with inflation and there has been such a disparity of income between the worker and executive that people who work are in poverty, the working poor. this is so wrong.

Along with changing the laws to form comglomarates in the financial indusrty, the laws have been changed to outsouce a lot of our manufacturing base. How can a country survive when the people cannot find jobs to buy the products and goods that are made here?

Hoarding massive wealth is not the way to make an economy run. The Govt. has to print out money to keep the economy going and that devalues the currency. I say, How much is enough?

Many people are suffering for the few who have been greedy. That's what this is all about. Live by credit, and it comes back to bite you.

I couldn't agree more. As a shop manager, I see people buying a $20 oil change and pay with a $100 bill. The excuse is .....I don't have the money. By the way.....the vehicle is a 2007 Hummer ($60K+ vehicle).

Our gov't is de-valuing the amperican dollar. Cut spending.......Obama (and congress) has spent more money in the past 90 days that anyone in the history of the U.S.

In the mean time, people like myself have to pinch every penny. My family literally lives on $60 of groceries every 2 weeks. My wife (a certified teacher) has been out of work since December 2008. Jobs here in Savannah,Ga are dropping like flies while the business owners are scalping the work force. Guess what.....NO JOB.....NO PAY.....NO BUY = NO JOB!

Chris

I have lived in Elkhart since May of 1993, and work there today. I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Eberle about the tight credit issue. One of my neighbors has been out of work mostly since last October, and his stated reason:

"...we have orders, but the banks won't lend us the money to cover cost of purchasing materials, so we can't fill the orders!"

Washington DC has made a big noise about bailing out the banks, but the same banks who have taken the bailout cash won't lend to the businesses. Since Washington has no real plan, oversight or accountability on all that money, how on earth can we hope for government to effect a recovery from this? As I see it, accountability is at the core of this issue, and DC hasn't even begun to address that point.

I want to see Elkhart bounce back too, but I don't think the current situation in our national government is going to bring it back. I think our local businesses and banks need to form some serious alliances and fight our way out without depending on DC.

Be careful when using a broad-based writing pen to characterize towns throughout the south as "experiencing high unemployment...." Some may be, so name a few. Many are not, so maybe you could also name a few of them. How about the north Texas area? I don't automatically "expect to feel the crunch" because I am in the US. Houston has always had that problem, it seems. Perhaps it's time to find the place that has the solution...

Why pick on the Hiltons? Do you know anyone who has purchased a Starbucks coffee lately? Is our economy really based on producing luxury items? I read where about two-thirds of our economy is now service-related. What is a luxury item in the service sector? A lawyer when you need one? A doctor who makes house calls? Help me understand here...

1. I was using the Hiltons as a hyperbolic example that multimillionaires are the only ones with disposable income anymore. The middle class is almost extinct.

2. I don't know anyone who has purchased a Starbucks coffee because I live in a small town in the Midwest without a Starbucks, but even if I did live near a Starbucks, I don't think I could make myself pay $4.00 for $.75-worth of coffee.

3. When I spoke of luxury items and economy, I was referring to Elkhart, which was the subject of the article. RV's are a luxury item, and Elkhart built its entire economy around them.

4. Service-related luxury items include animal grooming, chauffers, maids, nannies, personal accountants, etc. Doctors don't make housecalls anymore, and being able to hire a lawyer IS a luxury. If you can afford to pay a lawyer, then you have expendable income.

Lets be honest about the RV Industry.  Most of the buyers of high ticket RV's couldn't afford them in the first place and only bought them as toys they could get, with little or no money down, for instant gratification. Elkharts RV Industry is no different than Wall Street, the Real Estate Business and General Motors.  To many years of easy money for middle class Americans to purchase products they didn't need and couldn't really afford. The RV Industry was exactly the same bubble as the Real Estate Imdustry.  My wife and I were offered an $90,000 RV for the cost of taxes and registration, on a 20 year contract, that has now cost some bank at least $45,000 when the eventual buyer realized he would be upside down for life and couldn't, after monthly paymemnts,  even afford to store it much less use it.

For the most part the RV indistry is the perfect example of too much for too long, followed by too, little too late..... and, just as will General Motors, it will join all the other dinosaurs and become extinct.

Riverside Bob has a clear and valid point here. We've all spent way over our heads for a long time, and known it was wrong, even while doing it.

Another of my neighbors some years back was put out of work at a quite well-paying job. He never re-employed, since he could not find a job at a rate comparable to his earlier salary. His answer to how to deal with adversity was to buy an RV! Out of a job, not earning a dime, he bought an RV...and he died a year later in poverty. Guys, that's no way to deal with adversity, God rest his soul!

We as Elkhartans need to buckle up our belts, pull on our boots and weather this. If it means moving in with family, moving to where we can get jobs, working whatever job it takes, then that's what we'll have to do. Observe the situation, adjust our behaviors, and overcome the adversity. Don't call this a platitude, read it for what it is. I see plenty of yards that need raked (and mine is one of them), yet nobody has knocked on my door yet.

Over the last 8 years, I've spend my every waking hour (outside of my normal job) in school or doing volunteer work that led to greater competence in my chosen field of employment. LOTS of money have I spent to educate myself, at no cost to my various employers...and I'm still employed. There's a lesson there, and I learned it from my dad down home. Take what you need, and save the rest. Period.

Dad spent my whole life trying to teach me and my siblings his ethics (learned during the depression of the '30s), and largely succeeded. Thank you dad. I sure miss you. But I won't ever forget the "difference between my needs and my wants." Just like you said, once I learned that, everything else got a bunch easier in life.

I look back on the recent tornado damage to the town of Nappanee, and recall how Washington DC scorned them by not giving them a handout from the Katrina-bred coffers of FEMA after their people rebuilt. Nappanee's folks just put on their boots and did the work. Now its our turn.

Folks, that's the way I was raised. I'm not sorry that I've missed the chance to own a quarter-million dollar home or a fancy RV, but I do have a home, years of college education & diplomas, and I didn't get those handed to me on a silver spoon. You can do it too. I've faced the gangs and the drug dealers right here on my street, while working two jobs and going to school and paying all my bills. The gangs came and went, and some day, I'll go too...that's just the way it is...but while I'm here, that's just the way I'll live. Thank you dad and mom.

Godspeed Elkhart. Put your boots on!

Well put. Everytime we go to wallie world AKA Walmart and buy some pressboard furniture its throwing money at China. In order for Us to get jobs rolling here we need some good ol American roll up your sleeves inginuty. We need to relearn the trades that made us great. and make it ourselves. Buying from mom and pop shops whenever possible and asking who made this or that.

Buying used is also very American in hard times. See china can only make that used item the one time. Then its here and an American owns it. When we insist on buying new it tends to let money slip out of our country. But when you buy that perfectly good lawnmower From the guy down the street it keeps that money here for at least another transaction.

Not to mention $50 - $100 is way better than $250 new Craftsman mower for example. We have the means to take back our country one deal at a time. Consider it a New Tea party and Don't let Boston have all the fun this time.

Oh yeah one mans junk is another treasure also rings very true at times like these. So Bartering and trading is another way to sway the corporate monkeys by insisting that long term boycotts of products that are not U.S. made just do not get bought here anymore. We actually all have the basics of what we really need air food water. the rest should only be considered tools for living and growing our own businesses here at home.

The best Acronym for a Job I have ever heard is J.ust O. ver B. roke

By creating better relationships with those you live around and trading with them your local connections also get much stronger. I know I live in the state Capital here in California fairly good sized City. And I deal small one to one no store no overhead. Some Ebay mostly word of mouth.

Trust me more and more that time you please one person they appreciate the attention to details. And the service that it brings. A rare commodity in itself nowadays. Buy Local as much as possible and help each other get whatever needs done well done.

To all the naysayers that say it would drive us deeper into a depression. Slow the economy even more create more job loss ect .ect. Stop fear mongering. Before the banks had a straglehold on this nation before Corporate America took over the government. We were better off. We as a people worked hard saved raised our kids with morals. Not to mention let them know what real work was. And had a better Ideal and pride in ourselves.We created jobs with grand ideas and this nation thrived. we saw investing in our fellow man as an opertunity not only for him. But our families as well. Now the banks decides who gets a loan who can grow and who cant. Bull start smalll and grow slow.

I only hope that we can all stop watching the news in fear and start making some good news in our own lives. There is a ton of opportunity out there and it is yours for the taking.

I don't like to play the "blame game" but I do have to agree with you here. Someone dropped the ball on diversifying the economy. It is just a shame that it took a major downturn for officials to say, "hey, we have a problem here". Sadly, they should have known this. I learned this in my high school economics class for goodness sakes. Maybe they did know and just didn't address it because times were not bad until recently. Ahhh, I guess hindsight is twenty twenty.

Do you really think we as Americans are better off leaving to our elected officials to handle diversification and economic situations. Leaving it up to them then playing the blame game is exactly what got us all into this mess across the country. Truth be told high school economics suck. Most kids cant even balance a checkbook when leaving high school.

Mandatory reading should include The Richest man in Babylon by : George S. Clason and many others. We need to stop teaching our youth Get a good job and look for job security. College is cool if only to expand ones mind but not only for a job tool.

Simply said but far from fact. Another blind racist. Must be from Mississippi or then again, Indianna

There are two big problems... one-the middle class is shrinking at an alarming rate and two-many middle class americans are living off of credit to enjoy the lifestyle that they grew accustomed to just a few decades ago. I'm not saying this is right, but for many it is the truth.

Wow you're bitter. You seem to be living in the 60s. You haven't been here in awhile have you?

Ummm....I hope you are being sarcastic. If not I think maybe you must have ran into some undesirable people. I can assure you that I have never seen or heard of any hangings, burnings, or white robes flying in the night. Wow...do you judge everyone the same because of one or two bad characters you might have run into?

Wow, what a great idea. I would love to see these purses. We are even feeling the pinch in Kosciusko Co., which is just south of Elkhart Co. Considering that our county is considered the Orthopedic (MFG)Capital of the world some might think that our local employment is rather recession proof. However, I never knew the large amount of Kosciusko County residents that actually worked in the RV/Auto industry. It is difficult to move from the RV/Auto MFG. into Orthopedic MFG. because most of the jobs in the Ortho. industry seem to be temp. jobs, which is better than unemployment but doesn't offer the security most workers desire. I don't know all the reasons MSNBC chose Elkhart to highlight, but why not Elkhart? Northern Indiana has just as many good things happening as bad, just like any other part of our country. Perhaps more mfg. jobs will come back to our area and our country when businesses realize that American ingenuity is still the best in the world.

Wow now that's worth national attention Good ol fashioned American dedication and hard work. you all should be applauded.

May I ask why you left Elkhart?, it sounds like such a nice place to live. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, your town sounds like heaven.

Until Muslims and Jews, gays and evangelicals, Pagans and Christians, Chechnians and Russians, blacks and whites, and everyone else inbetween can all get along, we won't have peace, prosperity, and concern for the welfare of the common person ANYWHERE on the planet.

True... But it only takes one at a time to make a difference... I was recently ata viewing of the documentary "Guns, Grief, & Grace in America" and what followed the film was an intense discussion of how to "deal" with gun violence in America... So many teens in attendance were apathetic, stating that "it's hopeless; there will ALWAYS be gun violence." Though to a certain extent that statement can be true, we have got to change our mind-frame of hopelessness to one of hopefulness if anything is EVER going to change... Negativity breeds negative results -- and vice-versa... There are better ways... Will we get everyone to agree? Of course not... But there are places in existence in America where gun violence is not an issue (most always, middle to upper middle-class communities)... Can we completely wipe out poverty and establish a gun-free society? Maybe not... But we can work to change one person's mind of purchasing a gun to remedy some problem in their life... And that's one person who didn't kill another being -- or themselves -- who didn't contribute to the statistics...

As I said before, maybe we need this recession to generate an awakening... Maybe in some way or another, we will finally see each other: humans; not each other's faults and differences we deem unworthy... Just maybe... Just maybe...

E

I have to say that this has really gotten me and my family thinking alot more about what really matters in life. Does it really matter that "John and Jane" down the road will look down their noses at you because you don't have this or that? So what! Twenty years down the road you won't even remember this or that or that you cared what John and Jane thought. What you will remember is the ties that you have with your friends, family, and neighbors (as you mentioned).

I have come to realize (as I think so many others of my generation are starting to realize- I was born in 80) that maybe all of these "things" don't matter as much as what we thought they did. My husband and I have been trying very hard to pay down our debt so that we don't owe anyone anything. What a feeling of freedom that would be. I find myself trying to be more frugal and wondering "do we really need this?".

You must not be from around here or you would realize that most of this area is NOT UPPER MIDDLE CLASS.

RV work is hard, and tiring.. In a communnity where EVERYTHING is connected to the RV industry, where else are you supposed to get a job, unless it's flipping burgers.

I've lived my whole life in this community. I dont think people from other areas realize that 80% of the businesses in this county are RV factorys, RV suppliers, RV repair, or RV SOMETHING.

Unless you are working in a Hospital, Restraunt or shopping mall, you do something connected to the RV industry!

I find your comment to be commendable about your self improvement strategies.I do not; however;agree with the rest of comment.I don't think those folks in Elkhart are considered anything but the hardworking,backbone to this country.If it were not for people like those in Elkhart this country would have fallen financially long ago.The blue collar worker is and always will be what holds it together financially.The housing,credit,etc...So flip a burger and move on; but don't disrespect Elkhart;they have been through enough already!!!