One last comment on jobs....of all of the full time jobs created in the last 7 years, how many were government jobs and how many were private sector? Your tax dollars are paying for government employees. your descretionary spending is paying for private sectors jobs. More goverrnment employees = higher taxes. To the posters comment about we are already past the point of recovery. I agree. The only solution is to cut deep into government services. Italy or Greece even cut the government pensions they were paying to pensioners . Ouch!!! Tough decisions made by tough leaders , not flower children.