You're using the stock market to measure economic success or failure? How does that make any sense for you when so few people have any significant exposure to the stock market?
Boy, you don't know shit about business, global or domestic. S&P is an index, like Nasdaq, which is an average measure of a wide range of markets, which in combination with consumer spending index, can delineate with demonstrable conclusions that in fact on average, the stock market index is a somewhat leading indicator of gross domestic revenue and economy growth. Yes, more people are on welfare, but that means corporations are more profitable and thus creating more tax revenue an share holder evaluation is going up, which means more jobs can be created as long as we stay the course and do more to drive business growth. IF we continue to pull the poor out of poverty and we drive forward with infrastructure upgrade and expansion, we will be #1 again. Im not disagreeing that we should be #1, I disagree with how we get there. You ideas are tired and don't work. Try mine and see if they work. Stop fighting over bullshit bills that you and I both know will help in the long term, and lets start working out a way to continue our prosperity.
