“When your neighbor has lost his job it is a recession, if you lose your job it is a depression.” - Ronald Reagan
When these people and many of theirs friends and family are out of work or real worried about their job it is a bad economy. And high stock prices do not do a thing for them. In 2006 the republicans shouted stock prices from the roof tops and it fell on deaf ears.
Check out the National Employment figures. Where are all of these people out of work. Is it regional? Move if it is. I can tell you that the Mississippi Coast has a huge deficit in good workers. There are not enough people to fill the jobs.
LLS