The country has extremely high unemployment and around 35 million impoverished, a war, a city and the surrounding area demolished by hurricane, and a record federal deficit, so something is a little fishy when I'm reading articles like this:
Americans keep snapping up second homes
Americans bought a record number of second homes for vacation and investment last year, some 40 percent of 2005 total sales, a trade group said Wednesday.
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I remember reading that Exxon-Mobil had record profits last year too in the New York Times. So I guess what else is new, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, but make sure when you read that the country's economy is in the shitter, you remember that for some, that means big money.