Reply #27: That's the lie to the story. [View All]

People working at a third or less of what they used to make for a few hours a week still get counted as workers, it counts as jobs gained. My own family has several who are working two and three jobs, hustling what they can, their kids doing without stuff, lots of evenings over the kitchen table sweating the bills. The nation won't survive on this much despair. No amount of happy talk and everything will be alright real soon talk can help those who go to bed each night with hope gone and fear just outside the door.

Things are bad. They need to get better and they won't get that way if we keep being told just wait. Getting big bonuses back for wall street isn't doing it for the rest of us. All the happy talk just depresses us more because it is an indication that they either aren't planning on doing anything or just have no clue what to do.