Reply #43: calling people who are not ready to break out the party hats on a report of a half percent increase

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in retail sales 'doom and gloomers'is uncalled for. You are entitled to your opinion but there are grave problems in this economy which are not going away without some real changes to the system which have not happened and have not even been proposed for the most part. People who recognize this are not 'doom and gloomers.' They are the people who have been paying attention for 3 decades to what is happening in our workplaces and our lives and who saw (as they have been predicting) the whole thing come tumbling down on their heads. Instead of heeding the warnings of the people who saw this coming and now see it about to happen again, labeling them 'doom and gloomers is the order of the day. Not persuasive and, generally, alienating.