{"id":3021,"date":"2007-12-26T06:50:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T14:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/leading_economic_indicators_portend_lump_of_coal_for_2008.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T15:30:46","slug":"leading_economi_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/leading_economi_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Leading Economic Indicators Portend Lump Of Coal For 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All you all are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12262007\/news\/regionalnews\/stingy_city_of_crooge_761402.htm\">cheap-asses<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Christmas season was no bell-ringing bonanza for Salvation Army volunteers &#8212; who reported smaller donations and emptier kettles compared with previous years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year is the worst year,&#8221; said Salvation Army bell-ringer Emma Quinones, 56, of Astoria, Queens. &#8220;I guess it&#8217;s because of cutbacks, rent going up, the economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve, Quinones took in just $40 in three hours at Rockefeller Plaza, down from the normal $100.<\/p>\n<p>The Salvation Army doesn&#8217;t keep a national count of kettle donations. But &#8220;the overall sense is that people are more cautious about their giving this year,&#8221; said Melissa Temme, a national spokeswoman for the Salvation Army.<\/p>\n<p>Those who depend on handouts and tips have also had a rough time of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is my worst year ever,&#8221; said panhandler Jack Mitchell, 67, who plies his trade in his wheelchair on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street with the help of his dog, Lucky.<\/p>\n<p>Normally during the holidays, Mitchell said he takes in $150 to $200 a day, but he&#8217;s been averaging about $60 &#8212; more like an ordinary day the rest of the year.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All you all are cheap-asses: The Christmas season was no bell-ringing bonanza for Salvation Army volunteers &#8212; who reported smaller donations and emptier kettles compared with previous years. &#8220;This year is the worst year,&#8221; said Salvation Army bell-ringer Emma Quinones, 56, of Astoria, Queens. &#8220;I guess it&#8217;s because of cutbacks, rent going up, the economy.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}