Be the first. Be the first to write "George, you've done one hack of a job!" If you took math past fifth grade, you could take the monthly data points and see a tend.Based on that trend, you would see that even without adding the 3.4 millions jobs that will be lost when our automakers fail you job may be history.

Am I the only one with a job that is so busy I wish they would lay me off? Am I the only one who is out of debt, who financially prepared for this crisis? I am not very smart, but I saw this day coming. Seeing so many people in debt was the first clue and I drew the inference that this kind of behavior would bring down the economy. I did not know it would be so suddenly.

Not everyone lost a job or a house because of a bad decision on their part.

Many lost jobs based on bad decisions by their employers. Many employersare shutting down because of bad decisions made by bankers.

The investments lost in the last year were made by regular folks that saved and gave their money to EDUCATED EXPERTS with a fiduciary responsibility to do the best for their clients.

I am so gld that many people had a crystal ball and predicted the meltdown but to smuggly imply that it is the fault of the average hard working guy that he is no longer employed or that his financial mess is his fault just isn't accurate.

Some ate beans and bacon for the last twenty years and put every available dime away.......and now it is gone.

The bankers have their nest egg...ato execs still have a buck.... oil execs are eating steaks...and Bush will retire in Dallas, but hard working Americans will be lucky to work another 15 years past retirement to pay for the mess the "Managers" got this country in.

I hope that The Church of President-elect Berry Hussein Obama of Latter-day Socialist Saints re-THINKS here that back in Clinton's 2nd term in Office, he vetoed a Bill, that would of raised up the Federal Poverty Wage Guideline's, to $55k, for a Married Couple, without children, because they grew up, that would of helped out Senior's etc., in 2008 that HUD Controlled figures is at $14,600 right now. If one makes at or over that figure, and in need, one CAN'T GET any help from any City, County, State and Federal Program's out there in America, because you'll be told, your over our guideline's. That's these HUD controlled guidelines in Washington DC, that started when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in Office, and, goes up on its own 3% a year since that time. There's a lot out there about to be homeless, and one paycheck away from it to, and need some help to perhaps. Why is this than being kept on the back burner in Congress, since Clinton was in Office?. Oh I forgot, the liberal's don't want no one to have nothing, this way, they can blame it on the Republican's, to win this fixed election?.

Anyone who believes this is George BUsh's fault is naive and thinks history only goes as far back as he/she was born. Does anyone really think this economic situation would not have happened if Bush hadn't won in '04? You lack intelligent research and analysis if you think the President is responsible for our economy. WAKE UP FOLKS, the President is puppet!! Obama will be too. He'll be the voice we listen to and face we see but in reality the powers behind the scene pull all of the strings! Obama will be powerless, just like Bush is!

Chuck, the only people who call Obama a Messiah are bitter conservatives. It was taken by Obama saying there will be mistakes in my presidency. We will admit to our mistakes. Most Americans are well aware that people can't become gods. No one as learned without making mistakes. We get tried of lenders who can't, in their humanity, admit to being human.

My family are Utahans. I witnessed people disappointed to learn the imperfection of people. Utah was a culture were people could pick out the smallest imperfection. This was the seed of their bitterness.

Chuck, you mat see yourself has a visionary. I see a bitter soul.

I used to not get the idea of forgiveness. It wasn't taught in Utah. I've slowed learned being out of Utah. Forgiveness is selfish in a way. When, you learn to forgive others, you learn to forgive yourself.

Obama is not my Messiah. He is not my religion. He's a human that put his pants on one leg at a time.

What!?

The stimulus checks didn't work?

They didn't create more jobs?

So much for trickle-up economics policies of the liberal left.

I guess we know where the real voodoo is.