Originally Posted by Rochard

The thing that kills me is people are taking about "how bad things are". It's like we live in completely different worlds.

We all saw what happened during the recession - people loosing their jobs and then loosing their houses. We are still feeling the impact of the recession (lower salaries, lower net worth, lower housing value, etc) but that is the reality of the situation. Recovering from the recession is not a eight or ten year problem, it's a twenty year problem. I love it when people say "this is the slowest recovery ever". Well, yes. I am forty-seven years old and this was by far the worst recession we've ever had. There will be no quick recovery, and we need to be thankful we are where we are now.