Well, maybe you would and maybe you wouldn't but my guess is that your mind is set and there's no possible explanation you'd ever be willing to accept.
In the meantime, I'm like most Americans. We're personally not as well of as we were say, last year, but our incomes are still rising and our wealth is still even higher than the peak we had in the dot-com boom.
If this is what we call "bad" the we're never going to see "good".
what is rising is unemployment...about 600,000 revised December number.