There is NO FRICKIN’ recovery. How stupid does a person have to be to believe that the economy is actually recovering?
I will take your word that there is no recovery. (And I am *not* being flippant when I say that.)
The whole recession has had a surreal air about it living where I do—Riley Co. Kansas—at the height of the recession, the least economically stressed county in the U.S. according to, I think it was the AP, and on a county-by-county maps of job losses and gains, over the past year the county with the biggest job *growth*.
Headline on Drudge: Unexpected Rise in US Jobless Claims
Exactly who did not expect this? Why do they have a job predicting anything if they can't predict the obvious!!