[CurlyDave]

...or lost momentum in a business cycle which, at 78 months, is already longer than 29 of the 33 expansions the U.S. economy has experienced since 1854.

What expansion?

We have been in the great recession for every one of those 78 months.

Labor participation is at a low, We have not managed two add a single manufacturing job in years, and all of the new service jobs have gone to immigrants, legal and other.

[1rudeboy]

We have not managed to add a single manufacturing job in years.

Who's "we?"

[Toddsterpatriot]

We have not managed two add a single manufacturing job in years,

Manufacturing employment bottomed out at 11.4 million in Q1 2010. It's now 12.3 million.