The Economic Recovery Still A Mirage For American Workers

Be nice to President Obama. He has another 4 years to put you on his hit list and target a drone to take you out. No one seems to care. He let an ambassador and 3 marines die through inaction. He is hell bent on making sure you have no undocumented firearms while playing favorites with 14 million illegal (oops, I mean undocumented) outsiders to gain their votes for his party. Be nice to him and he will be Santa Claus to you - free phones, food stamps, sit down rest your feet and have a microbrew. What a regular Joe he is, be nice to him, or else.

Anyone who hasn't realized that they are being lied to on a daily basis voted for Obama

The upside to the comments is that with the exception of someone who obviously has a government job, everyone here understands that there is no recovery. There are no jobs and the ruling class is hoarding all the money they can for themselves. My question is why didn't people vote this way back in November? Now we have four more years of this. If you voted for any incumbents in the last election, shame on you!

I had to reinvent myself 3 years ago and now I make a very nice living teaching people how to give their underwater houses back to the bank and keep the money for themselves.

What recovery? Yeah, the very rich are doing great. That's the politicians (all of them wealthy), the bankers
( wealthy) oil companies (fillthy rich with inflated prices) and the CEO's of every kind of company you can think of(very wealthy). Real people, those who didn't indulge in the house-flipping frenzy, who played by all the rules, are still paying the price for those who caused all this. And those who caused this mess are flying high. I fear that this country is doomed because those in power are insatiably greedy.

Truth is AMERICA is nothing more than a big joke anymore. The American GOVERNMENT or Big Corporations doesn't deserve respect anymore. True desecration of the America flag is when so many good folks are either out of work, or working for wages that aren't a living wage, millions of homes being foreclosed on, millions of people losing their life saving thru Wall Street, etc....
I guess iI'm un American for saying all this. I better be quite or the government might order a drone strike on me.

Too many "poop bag" jobs out there, no career paths for most people, temporary, part time, low wage. That isn't recovery folks.

There is no recovery. The inflation rate is being understated and the economic growth rate has to be adjusted for inflation so if they say that inflation is 2% and it is really 6% then you would have to subtract an additional 4% from the stated growth rate of the economy. Since we've been told that the economy is growing at about 2% over the last few years and we need to subtract about 4% from that number(the difference between the stated inflation rate and the real inflation rate) we come to -2% of actual growth in the economy over the last few years. That shrinkage of real economic activity could explain the lowest workforce participation since the early 80's. Why did the author omit such an obvious possible explanation for why fewer people are working and many of the of the reemployed are getting paid less.

Why isn't this front page, top of the hour news. You weak minded folks that think the Washington Elite are fixing everything, should take your blinders off. The American family is diving deaper into poverty and your elected officials keep changing the focuse to throw you off. Its not one party thats to blame, its all in Washington lie'n to us everyday. If you are suffering from this bad economy. Let your elected officials know, and keep letting them know.

its not a mirage its been all smoke & mirrors for the last 4 years
if the media was doing their job instead of acting like obamas pr firm everyone would see this

I lost my factory job three years ago. Had a temp one, didn't last and now no one wants to hire me b/c I've been unemployed with "no reason" for too long. I am too old to do the lean manufacturing "on your feet all day" job with disabilities incurred during my lifetime. I have a disabled son and an elderly mother who live with me and am quickly getting depressed. Obama-care is coming and I get the feeling I will get screwed more with that. My Dr. can't give me charity care b/c Obama-care says he must give his care for free to everyone or have me fill out volumes of financial questions, then they--the gov't agencies overseeing these Dr.s, will make the judgement about if I can pay or not. I just want the president and congress to live with my empty bank account, my empty pantry and feel my stress instead of fixing problems that will only encourage certain groups of people to vote them in. DO SOMETHING SMART AND CARING for the American's that need it, don't worry if you'll get the votes, just do the right thing!!!