There never was any “economic recovery”. The gub fudges the numbers, since energy and food are not factored into inflationary numbers and with the price of homes dropping, they effectively can say “the economy is doing great”.
Anyone who lives on less than 30K a year (hand raised), knows first hand how bad the economy is sucking the life out of low income folks.
Now that we are in this mess, I have been doing a little digging. I have found out that in the middle of the ‘Great Depression’, there was a recession brought about by more socialist programs instituted by Roosevelt.