There are many positive signs that the economy is in recovery mode, yet you would think the sky was still falling the way some are raving like lunatics about it.  The jobs numbers come out today – jobs added, unemployment rate drops, DOW is up…there are many positives but you wouldn’t know it listening to the talking heads on television or in some newspapers.  I had to turn off MSNBC this morning because I was ready to throw something at my TV, which would have annoyed me considering it’s brand new!

Are things perfect?  No.  Too many are still out of work and too many are still struggling.  But to act as if there is nothing positive with the economy is just ridiculous. 

So…I’m confused about the “economy”…

We hear doom and gloom, Doom and Gloom and DOOOOOM and GLOOOOOM! MILLIONS unemployed!!! BOO!

But…I’ll tell ya, the freeways and roads are jammed, most stores that I go to are busy, the grocery stores in my area seem busy, I wait in line at Starbucks (I only go because I’ve got gift cards by the dozens) and the Post Office…my employer, one of those horrible awful airlines, is jam packed…and the fares are not all that low.

I just do not think that the “economy” is ever going to return to those “old Golden Days” (I’m not even sure when those would have been…the 90′s?)..period. It is a completely different age…period. America has changed and the world has changed…it IS a new age and it is going to take time to work through.

I just feel that there is always going to be a higher unemployment rate until, well, until our population decreases. And, there are always going to be those that are “unemployable” for various reasons.

So all the blather by the GOPathetics and Baggers about the unemployment rate and the numbers of unemployed, I call bullshit. They have done nothing. They want less regulations, laws and rules, which simply lets corporations ship work out of America as they want. Will they require these corporations to place jobs here? Hell no. And I see no real answers from them.