Ya know...
For someone who gets indignant when the politics gets heavy around here, you sure seem to make that soap box smoke pretty good yourself.
On economics, mostly you're being lied to by a media that has a lot invested in the Democrats walking off with the power in 2008. I've done the numbers before, and more than once. Don't feel like repeating again today.
But you might notice that the Great Economic Collapse people were yelping about here a while back doesn't seem to be delivering.