In reality, the government--any branch--has very little to do with what's going on with the economy right now. Try and think of any major policy change from either the President or the Congress that would have resulted in the current problems.

So thank you very much for a tanked economy. You elected the asshole, I didn't.

Where were you when the Bush economy was growing, deficits were dropping, revenues increasing, and employment and stocks were hitting all-time highs?

Here's a chart of the DOW over the past five years. You know...during the Bush administration.

Here's one over the past decade for a bit more perspective.

The DOW "crashed" to 12,099 on Friday. Do you realize it would have to drop another 376 points before it dropped to the "record" dot.com level it was at in 2000 (11,723)?

Unemployment rate is at 5 percent. Through most of my adult life this number would have been considered "full" employment.

There are, right now, almost six million MORE payroll jobs than there were at the peak of the 90's growth in early 2001.

"Tanked?" Basically, you and the average American are being had.

Much of this is an engineered panic to try and make the economy the major election focus. It's been done before.

There are real issues, of course, like the mortgage problems, but if you look at actual percentages, most of that is being driven by panic too.