Yes, unemployment rates are up, yes gas prices grew exponentially, and yes the national debt is up.

However, one needs to also see the positives he has ‘Change’d,
line them up side by side and then have him ask, “How am I doing?”

I respect your point of view, but the way I see it, we still got the long end of the short stick we were handed with the financial crisis, as bad as it has been, it could have been much worse. Unlike Iceland, and recently Greece, we were able to not have to take seriously drastic measures on the way to fixing the economy.

Just as a company files for class 11 bankruptcy, the US Gov’t is trying to figure out a way to fix the root cause of the problem and re-emerge as a healthy and functional entity.