I'm so glad the recession is over!

[leftofthedial]

That's what the "news" has been telling me all day! Isn't it wonderful?

[NOW tense]

1. I have to say, things are

looking up where I live..........

[northernlights]

20. maybe you could share where you live

because I don't see any recovery where I live.

[TheWatcher]

24. I think he's located here.

[SeeHopeWin]

2. The Obama recovery is well on its way!!! Looking very good EVERY SINGLE DAY!

Yes, Obama and his AWESOME policies DID save the economy!

[TheWatcher]

15. Delusion- Exhibit A

[Uben]

3. There was a recession?

When? Where? OMG! Guess I've been outta the loop. Maybe it was them taking my house after I got fired...or, hey, I bet it started when I lost half of everything I had saved for retirement in the stockmarket. Oh well, as you can see I have been preoccupied a bit, so I haven't been keeping up with current events. Did Clinton do it? I think I heard everything was his fault, anyway.

[leftofthedial]

6. Don't worry if you can't find a job!`

Or if you have to work three or four part-time shit jobs to not quite make ends meet!

The recession is finally OVER!

Wall Street is happy, not happy enough that they don't need another $780 billion asap, but happy!

If Wall street is happy, we're all happy! Right?

[Lint Head]

4. I predicted in previous DU posts before Obama was elected

that he would preside over the biggest and fastest economic recovery in US history. It will also insure that the GOP is history.
:dem:

[sendero]

10. I think you are missing..

.... the sarcasm. The "recession" is not even close to being over.

[TheWatcher]

16. He's not missing the sarcasm tag at all.

He's been making this same inane post in various forms for months now.

Denial really does make people insane.

[TheWatcher]

14. And so far you have looked quite foolish in your predictions that were all based on not one

scintilla of fundamental reality other than you thought so and "Hopes", "Assurances", and "Upbeat Rhetoric".

Meanwhile, the Auto Companies are sliding into Bankruptcy, The Banks continue to loot, rob, and steal unabated, NOTHING has changed in the Real Economy, save for indications that it is WORSENING, and not improving, and you're still blindly worshiping and falling all over yourself.....

Still based on NOTHING.

In all the years I have lived on this Earth, I have NEVER seen such a disconnect from reality as I am seeing now.

This country has become a complete and utter joke.

I'll ask you again like I did previously.

BASED ON WHAT?

I expect the same as I got before:

[grasswire]

17. Did you read the latest essay from Chris Hedges?

He has some interesting insight into the disconnect as it pertains to political theater.

[TheWatcher]

18. I would really like to read that. Do you have a link to it?

If not, no worries, I can Google it.

I think I am just trying to find some voices of sanity right now.

[grasswire]

22. hedges

Here's the paragraph that came to mind when I read your post:

Celebrity culture has leeched into every aspect of our culture, including politics, to bequeath to us what Benjamin DeMott called “junk politics.” Junk politics does not demand justice or the reparation of rights. Junk politics personalizes and moralizes issues rather than clarifying them. “It’s impatient with articulated conflict, enthusiastic about America’s optimism and moral character, and heavily dependent on feel-your-pain language and gesture,” DeMott noted. The result of junk politics is that nothing changes – “meaning zero interruption in the processes and practices that strengthen existing, interlocking systems of socioeconomic advantage.” It redefines traditional values, tilting “courage toward braggadocio, sympathy toward mawkishness, humility toward self-disrespect, identification with ordinary citizens toward distrust of brains.” Junk politics “miniaturizes large, complex problems at home while maximizing threats from abroad. It’s also given to abrupt unexplained reversals of its own public stances, often spectacularly bloating problems previously miniaturized.” And finally, it “seeks at every turn to obliterate voters’ consciousness of socioeconomic and other differences in their midst.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090503_buying_brand_obama/

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. Describes Joe the Plumber and Palin and Steele and.....

or, more simply." bright and shiny, then Poof !!"

[Mark Twain Girl]

27. Hm, I wonder if you'll still think the description is apt when you see what it's describing.

But yeah, bright n shiny.

[pokercat999]

19. Off topic but those crickets look like they're ready

TO GO FISHING!

[waiting for hope]

5. Tell the news to get me my job back -

x(

[leftofthedial]

7. You

and me

and 15 million more just like us.

[tech3149]

12. At least we're not alone

I quit being a wage slave in 2001. I'd love to go back to work but I won't do it for a company that doesn't honor my value to their profit margin. No one has ever hired me if they couldn't make a profit from my labor. Wasn't that Lincoln that said labor preceded capital?

[leftofthedial]

13. Lincoln

noted socialist

[nevergiveup]

8. I am a small retailer

and it is brutal out here. I haven't seen any indications of a recovery. We are hanging on by a thread.

[leftofthedial]

9. I hear you.

My OP was purely sarcastic.

[tech3149]

11. I have a distinct advantage over you

I don't watch or listen to the corporate media. I'm glad that some of the responders to your post don't see things as being so bad where they live, but that's not what I see from where I view the world. If you don't work some service industry or retail job, you've got to drive 50-100 miles to get to work. Been there, done that, don't need or want it anymore. I will not be a wage slave again. I know there are a handful of companies around the country that could use my skills and I'd be glad to work with but my primary interest in life is taking care of my 88 Y/O parents.
I'm too old and tired to waste 3 or 4 hours a day to make the living that my skills deserve and I'd go nuts working some mindless job just to cover my living expenses. I'm lucky I've got a bankroll that has taken care of my needs from 2001 and will probably last until retirement age.
Screw the consumer economy and work toward self sufficiency and understand that any information you need to understand the world is something you'll have to go out and hunt for. The corporate media is a propagandist because it serves their best interest.

I wish this post could be more positive and give some encouragement to others but it is what it is. Sometimes the best choices in your life can go tragically wrong and the only choice is to deal with results.

The corporate media is only selling advertising, they don't care if what they push is true on not. As long as they get paid for viewership they don't care what story they sell.

[marketcrazy1]

21. yup!

GREEN SHOOTS!!! YAY!!! Initial jobless claims fall; record ongoing claims

PROVIDED BY MarketWatch - 08:30 AM 05/07/2009

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- First-time claims for state unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level since late January, the Labor Department reported Thursday, in a sign that a peak may have been passed. The number of initial claims in the week ending May 2 fell 34,000 to 601,000. The four-week average of these initial claims fell 14,750 to 623,500. However, the level of ongoing claims continues to reach record highs, with a gain of 56,000 to reach 6.35 million in the week ending April 25. The four-week moving average of continuing claims also hit yet another record high, rising 125,250 to 6.21 million. The U.S. insured unemployment rate, which represents the portion of all workers covered by unemployment insurance who are collecting benefits, rose to 4.8% -- the highest level since December 1982 -- from 4.7%. ...... the recovery is WELL underway!!! :sarcasm: ... we really need a "head in the sand" smiley!!

[leftofthedial]

23. the government doesn't even begin to measure anything but the tip

of the unemployment iceberg, and even their numbers are frightening.

But according to today's headlines, "unemployment plunged."

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. Well, of course the recession is over, silly.

The Depression overtook it a few months back.

[DemReadingDU]

28. and by the time the Depression is officially called a Depression

We'll be in a huge world war.
Seems to me we're repeating history from the 1930's and 40's.

[PufPuf23]

29. I so sadly hear you. nt