[sheana]

And that is exactly why I keep telling people that those ‘green shoots’ are weeds.
The consumer is 70% of our economy. It is simple math. No jobs = no consumer = no recovery

[Freddd]

Couple all of that with those of us who simply are not spending, in protest of the dictator in the White House and the corrupt congress....Still doing my part!!

[LeGrande]

How do we turn it around at this point?

[doc1019]

High taxes = no jobs = no consumer = no recovery

[djsherin]

The consumer is 70% of the economy as measured by GDP, but is only a third when all intermediate investment is taken into account. Investment is much more important for an economy than consumption. But the idea of a jobless recovery is no less ridiculous either way.