I don't think anyone is going to know for a while.  We'll just have to see in the next year if all the economic advisers really know their stuff or if they made a serious flaw.  I don't know anyone that hasn't been affected by this downturn for the last few years.  I know that most of if not all of my former co-workers were laid off after I left the job back in late 2006.  All of those people were in the construction industry.  Many of them had built brand new homes since we worked for a homebuilder and I saw all these people living the dream only to lose their jobs within a year.  If it took many years obviously to create the Recession, it's going to take probably just as many to recover.

Christine

um, that would be a no...

Obama says the begin of the end of the recession has begun.    REALLY????  

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. 

Working here, NOT!!!

                God Bless The USA

That was a rhetorical question, right? 

 What kind of question is that?  If it were working, unemployment would not be at nearly 11%, the infrastructure would be under repair, people would be paying less in taxes, people would not have had to endure layoffs, job cuts, salary freezes, hiring freezes and salary reductions.  Foreclosures would have been slowed down, housing values would have stabilized, banks would be giving credit and lending money.  Only 10% of the stimulus money has even been paid out since it was approved five months ago.  People are fed up.  We keep getting screwed by having to pay more for everything, yet salaries do not keep pace.  Everyone is becoming poor.  I am worse off today than I was ten years ago.  And the worst part:  not even having anything to look forward for improvement. There is no light at the end of the tunnel.  All this, while the Obama and his family pay $50,000 to rent a house in the Hamptons for one week for their vacation.  $50,0000!  at a time when all Americans are struggling.  That is a slap in the face.  I can't even afford to take a vacation.  Much less spend $50,000 for a week's worth.  That's more than I make in an entire year.  Our politicians think we're stupid.  And we are.  For re-electing these old geezers year after year to have them do absolutely nothing for us but to screw us every which way they can.   

Obviously everyone is doing better than what the McCain palin ticket would have left us with.

 WereAlIInThisTogether's rant fails miserably to make any sense by blaming Obama for the economy we are in right now.  Bush was in office for the past 8 years prior to Obama coming into office, Did you forget that? YEP You did!

Fox News is not fair & balanced by any stretch. HA how blatantly incompetent it would be to make that assertion. Rush, Hannity and Beck are brown nosers of that network and push the extreme right wing schpeel!

We are in the dumper because of PRESIDENT BUSH!

Also:

*Bush threw his support behind a liberal Republican who supports increased taxes, abortion and additional gun control to be a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate. That man is Illinois Governor Jim Edgar. Thankfully, Edgar decided to not seek the nomination, but that didn't stop Bush from doing his best to send another liberal to Washington, D.C. Next, watch for Bush to do the same thing in California.

*Bush continues his support for the Clinton-Gore gun ban enacted back in 1994. Despite objections from gun groups, including the National Rifle Association, the President is determined to re-institute the so-called "assault weapons" ban that is scheduled to sunset next year. So much for Bush being "pro-gun."

*As Commander-In-Chief, President Bush has the authority to establish guidelines and policies for our nation's military. When Bill Clinton became President, he implemented the infamous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy allowing homosexuals to serve in the U.S. armed forces. Bush has continued that policy. Clinton also introduced women to front-line combat roles. And true to form, Bush continues this reprehensible Clinton policy. In fact, one would be extremely hard-pressed to find any Clinton policy that Bush has reversed! I can't think of a single one.

*NAFTA and GATT came into existence early in the Clinton administration. Bush continues those polices and even wants to expand them. He has proposed expanding this agreement throughout the Americas and is now calling for a Mideast Free Trade agreement. Say good-bye to more American jobs; say hello to more foreign goods and to more foreign workers.

*Bush is determined to oversee the creation of a Palestinian state. After sending American soldiers to fight and die in an undeclared war against Iraq, Bush wants to create another such country by giving the P.L.O. radicals their own nation. Clinton wanted to do the same thing, of course, but was shouted down by conservatives. Today, those same conservatives sit mute and dumb as Bush sets about to finish what Clinton started.

*Speaking of finishing what Clinton started, Bush successfully created the Department of Homeland Security and the totalitarian-laced USA Patriot Act. There is an even more egregious version currently worming its way into law. All this was the brainchild of Bill Clinton, of course. However, he could not accomplish his pernicious plans because conservatives and Republicans would not support them. Now they do.

*Bush is likely to invoke Executive Privilege in order to continue the cover-up about what he and other top government leaders knew prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Some thirty days prior to the attacks, Bush reportedly received a CIA Intelligence Report which warned, "The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning." More details are leaking out almost daily.

A Democratic Presidential contender, Senator Bob Graham of Florida, says Bush knows much more than he is telling and is demanding that the administration come clean about what really took place. Before that happens, however, Bush will claim Executive Privilege and the truth will be covered up once again.

Anyone a teacher or someone who has kept a job because of this of received unemployment compensation?:

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Christine

sorry about the ads taking up most of the page

Christine

my hubby is in the constuction field.where are all the jobs? there has been none for almost 2 years..nothing ...and if you find one there are over 1,000 people up for it even in his specialized areas..

"....It's something unpredictable and in the end is right,I hope you had the time of your life..."