[nopardons]

It has NOT been "pretty bad"!

I guess you are having financial/job problems, so to you, everything has been "pretty bad". Case closed.

[maui_hawaii]

Well I guess the fed lowered rates to 40 year lows on a whim. Whoda thunk it?

within the past few years we DID have the highest unemployment rate in years.

The DOW was below 7500 at certain points.

What? are you blind or something?

[maui_hawaii]

That being said, no one is looking backwards.... but to deny history is plain ignorance. Especially recent history.

I don't know what kind of agenda you have or why but thats about all it amounts to is some sort of agenda.

To say the economy hasn't had its problems is up on the same level with that Iranian nutjob who said the holocaust never happened or a bunch of Chinese nutcases who believed Mao saved the world and refuse to acknowledge that the US actually ended the war with a couple of little A-bombs...

Denial is a river, I don't think you otta live in it.