[Peach]

The unemployment rate is 5.7% with a 0.30% discouraged worker drop out rate.

During the 90's, the average unemployment rate was 5.6% with a 0.23% discouraged worker drop out rate.

Freepers are well aware of how well the economy is doing. USA Today interviewed 56 economists TRYING to find one to say something bad about the economy. NOT ONE of them did because the economy is doing great.

If you feel you are not getting enough sympathy from this thread, it may be because this is a thread to discuss the president's speech - not YOU!

[wingster]

This is amounting in yet another failed opportunity for the Dims to gain in the polls. Not as if that matters, but...

[LS]

I'm an economic HISTORIAN and I can tell you that the economy is as good as it's been since about 1987 overall. When you consider the 9/11 shocks, it's an AMAZING economic growth we have going on.