I get asked repeatedly by clients and friends, "Pooper, when is the recovery going to happen?"
To which I answer, "Are you referring to the recession, or the actual beginning of the collapse of our economy?" I typically get blank stares.
Allow me to expound. What you are seeing in America today is not a recovery from anything; not from the "recession" (called so because we have to have a label for everything), not from jobs lost, not from jobs outsourced overseas…there has been no recovery and will be no recovery until we undo what Conservatives (and in some cases, Democrats) did to ruin the economy.
Here is where all of my conservative readers (I think there are seven) become belligerent. Be patient. I am going to paint the case of why Conservatives are to blame, and when I am done, you will not be able to refute it. It’s not pretty. I used to be a conservative, and am a small business owner. I’m supposed to be a conservative’s best friend. But I can’t be. Their economic policies need to be lynched, forever.
http://my.firedoglake.com/politicalpartypooper/2010/07/22/how-corporatist-conservative-policy-destroyed-the-american-economy/