Well, in general I would say the more people working, the better the economy will be.
It’s a spiritual issue ultimately... the nation has lost heart and sees no point in working. Even this horrible situation could be at least turned in the other direction if not cleared up, if the nation regained heart. And heart comes from God. Also if God moved, it could not even be stopped by Barack Obama. We people must make the first move, however. Fight all the lies that say that “God is hate” and dare to love God again. We do NOT need to worry about working out a forgiveness... that was already done... however there is a lot of grace pushing that will need to be done to fill up the holes and it will feel like it stinks when things are actually getting built back up.