[Clintonfatigued]

I’ve been wondering where the recovery is, myself.

[silentknight]

Come on Freepers. Really? Why do we use the government numbers. We know they are wrong.

You can pretty much double whatever number they tell you.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data

Real numbers.

The government numbers are a joke and we all know it.

[Willie Green]

I’ve been wondering where the recovery is, myself.

Thanks to Dubya's "free trade" agreements, most of the recovery occurs offshore where all the wealth creating jobs were outsourced.
The only lasting benefits that Americans receive are from those few, modest investments that we're making to our transportation infrastructure.

We really need to implement a 10~15% revenue tariff on ALL imported goods, while lowering other forms of domestic taxation.
That would have an immediate effect of replenishing our Treasury while also providing incentive to bring wealth creating jobs back to America.
And we should focus those jobs on creating energy efficient infrastructure like nuclear power and passenger rail systems so our domestic economy remains competitive in the 21st Century.