Think recovery in year's second half

Davetheraver,

I work in the energy industry. My last job with an alternative energy company laid off everyone on November 14, ten days after Obama got elected. Most of the employees there voted for Obama for selfish reasons. They thought a green President would be good for business. NOT. I believe there is some correlation because in August, our CEO was very optimistic, with several projects getting ready to kick off and others on the horizon. Why do you supposed a green energy company which specializes in products such as hydrogen and biofuels collapsed at a time when our president is saying green energies will create millions of jobs? Can it be that this company, like all others, do not trust this President? We were told the $787 billion stimulus bill will keep unemployment under 8%. It is 10% now. As for the recovery, any gains in people's incomes will be negated by inflation caused by the trillions of worthless printed money for bailouts.

Well said heartwarmer.  For those of you not paying attention, here's a history of the US CPI, a measure of the prices on the things we buy: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt
Note the continual escalation of prices which corresponds to the increase in the money supply. Printing money=inflation.  And the criminal federal reserve has doubled the money supply since 2008.  The unemployment rate, not the BS one the government throws around, but the more real measure, the U6 jobless report, reflects somewhere between 27,000,000 and 28,000,000 million Americans are unemployed and cannot find work.  You only have to visit Buffalo, all of Michigan, Florida, most of California, most of New England, and many other areas to know American society is in decline, crime is on the rise, and tent cities with homeless families are popping up and growing all over America.  Rely on the Dow Jones? Huh!  More like the Davie Jones. Take a look at the ten year history and draw a baseline.  That's right, is under what it was 10 years ago.  http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.aspx?D4=1&ViewType=0&D5=0&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&ComparisonsForm=1&CE=0&D3=0&Symbol=%24INDU&C9=2&DisplayForm=1&CP=0&PT=10
Good luck making a net gain in that crooked system.  Home ownership, same deal.  The housing market is in permanent decline, and you will not recover your interest cost in the short or long term when you sell.  You'd be lucky to break even, only to pay more for the house you trade up to. 
And every law the US government passes either taxes those of us lucky enough to still be working even more, or curtails our freedoms by making even more mundane things illegal.  States are going bankrupt, and despite the US Constitution preventing it, the federal government is now ordering the states to take the stimulus money, which are essentially loans that have to be paid back.  But more importantly, as a creditor to the states, the US government will be able to order the states around.  I suggest you people read the Declaration of Independence, and replace "he" meaning the king, to the US government.  It basically describes all the injustices that have been done to us that caused us to have a revolution.  Its what was needed then, and is all that will turn things around now.  Recovery my XSS!