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Yeah - fewer (well, about the same, now as 2000) people on payrolls, more people working in various small or sole proprietor or other creative business models.

No mass soup lines or homeless or starvation or any such. God knows we'd hear about that if there were a shred of evidence for it.

Not bad for coming off one of the biggest bubbles in human history.

But this is where I worry for 2008. I am basically a pessimist on the economy - we may have created enough debt and mortgage paper and had enough Yen and Yuan buying enough of Uncle Sam's bonds to get by so far, but I am convinced that there will be hell to pay for this paper profligacy sooner or later.

My biggest fear is the economy goes to hell in 2007, and Hitlary goes to the White House in 2008.

For now, Bush is dealing a strong hand. But it's a bit of the luck of the draw whether our party's next candidate will be as strong. And if they are bucking an economic headwin, it could get rough.

Hillary will be ousted in 2006 and never return to public life. After 40 years of Democrats controlling everything in Congress and the Media, we are now in the middle of a major shift. The word "Liberal" never used to be a moniker that Democrats avoided, these days they consider calling them a Liberal as a "Negative Attack" on their patriotism.

All across this country we have seen a shift in the political landscape. No longer do the Democrats own the Domestic issues, no longer do the Labor Unions dominate like they used to (Outsourcing). Conservatives now own the South and we are more trusted on issues concerning foreign policy and National Security. In the modern world, National Security is, and will remain the top concern we will face, and the Democrats have ZERO credibility in this area and it will take 40 years before they will ever have a chance of getting that credibility back. We live in dangerous times and most Americans know it