[SeekAndFind]

Any comments on Post #15 above ?

[Safrguns]

>>> Any comments on Post #15 above ?

I was for the economy before I was against it?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Any economic “growth” numbers currently being sold to the publik are all smoke and mirrors, manipulated by the Government.

They are dumping the “Stimulus” money into Blue State budgets to keep them running. The Government is also hiring millions of people for temporary jobs, etc, in order to manipulate the employment statistics for the coming 2010 elections.

As far as the economy gaining based on Wall Street, Wall Street has been slowly increasing in total spite of what the actual economy has been doing. It fails to react to things that would have crashed the market in past years. What is missing are trade volumes. The market is merely based of the last few die hard traders and trade volumes is less than half of what it used to be and should be.

This is a completely false economy you are looking at through the media fog.

[Vanders9]

Figures do not lie, but the interpretation of them is a lot trickier. The Democrats are stressing the positive side of this, the opposition is pointing out the shortcomings. If employment and unemployment is rising, the obvious conclusion is that the labor force overall is increasing, and by implication, rising at a faster rate than the economy can handle.