[reagan_fanatic]

Go through a drive through, collage educated burger flippers and accountants running the registers

I know what you mean.

My Son works for a national cartridge refilling company. In better times, their applicants would be high school graduates and the like. In the last year, many of them have come from former John Deere and Alcoa workers - people who were making $20 or more an hour and are college educated.

I think it's a lot worse than most people realize.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I maintain that we are in a depression. A depression takes a long time to unwind as the deleveraging process creeps along. You can’t tell a depression when you are in it, only in hindsight, but the signs indicated to me that we are in a depression.

My only question is if the MASSIVE new Federal debt spending enough to create some new bubble that puts the heart of the depression off until some years from now, rather than continuing through it now. I know the government is trying to put the depression off, I just have no clue if they will succeed, so I will give them credit for the possibility of putting it off, and of course making it far worse with the new added MASSIVE debt.

I’m convinced we are in a depression and unemployment will only go up from here, and drag out longer while the economy stagnates.