Take a look around you and take stock of the economy at home. Sure, the politicians are saying that things will be better in two or three years, but what is the real story. The real story is that it took a full ten years for the depression of the 1930s to end and thats back when oil was cheap and plentiful. Even then, it was WW2 that finally ended it and the country went right back into a recession as soon as the war ended five years later!
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