@k @d3n @sun
> The economy is not good, no matter what abstract numbers you want to throw out

in other words: you know that the data actually doesn't support you.

We *have* economic data to measure how well the economy does writ large. There were people strugglebussing in the US 10 years ago, and there were people strugglebussing in the US 20 years ago, and 30 years ago. You just happen to be one of them.