With the government running things ... we are doom ...

The american people have been living in a recession for years, it has just been ignored. The corruption in the financial industry just got the economist and the governments attention. Then the economist and government is forgetting about the 20 million american jobs lost to illegal aliens who are not tax paying citizens. Then the jobs lost to outsourcing and foreign countries for business to better profit. The recession is a result of more than a thightened credit market. Then the illegals that have lost jobs are turning to more crime and causing more deaths to the american people. Our enemy is hiding among us and exploiting our country in to the recession and government inaction to get rid of illegals and take them off the welfare of this nation. It wouldn't hurt if they also repealed the NAFTA agreement and make america a soverign country again. As long as americans are deprived of their jobs and rights the recession will never end, unless we sell out america to Mexico, then watch the dung hit the fan.

Let me be the first to blame Bush for this- just kidding- all you wacky leftists just save that tired rhetoric. This Country has been through recessions before and if we're lucky we'll go through many more. I think Americans are getting soft. Buck up ! We're still the greatest country on earth!

Thank you George Bush and John McCain for the rich get richer scheme that has led us to this cliff.

If your 401K and your value of your home has fallen over 10%, then you have no choice but to vote for Obama and Biden.

Go look............ shudder........... and vote for real change. O-B.

This is clearly the time for a tax and spend, punish those who provide the jobs, spread the wealth Socialist in the White House. Only Barack Obama can provide exactly what we do not need to at this critical time in our Nation's history.

Thank you DesNews for addressing this. I turned 16 in 1979 & remember what a real bummer it was finding the most simple job. The media seems to sanitize former Pres. Carter's legacy, but he was a total disaster to us economically. I remember seeing older people delivering papers on foot. I have discussed this with my family & others how difficult this time really was. A large percent of the young workforce doesn't relate to this at all. I have warned my own working kids that this type of day could return. I hope we all become more grateful for what we have, and learn to appreciate what we gain in life. There is no substitute for education, hard work, and personal accountibility.

I'm rather disappointed with the responses to this article so far - everyone wants to blame the problem on someone else (aliens, government, one political party or another), and expects someone else to fix it. In the words of Pogo, "We have met the enemy, and they is us!"
I have been out of work for six weeks, but I am doing my best to get a new job, and not expecting a handout. My wife is canning fruit so we will have food, and we have other food and supplies already stored up. America, we will recover from this recession, by virtue of our own individual efforts. Stop asking for something for nothing (no credit? no problem!) and get to work. We will probably have to tighten our belts. It won't be easy. But we can do it. Regardless of who we elect, WE THE PEOPLE have to solve this.

This is a crisis that will only be solved at home. The politicals have proven there are no true statesmen among them, because none of them will just stand up and say Americans, individually, have to take responsibility and pick up the shovels, so to speak.

Good luck with the job hunt. I've done some canning and drying myself this season (lousy gardener that I am, at least I'm trying). There is only honor in recognizing our financial limits and doing our best with what you have today, whether it measures up to the neighbors or not.

Let's all stand up and help each other out. Swap garden produce, share cars, tend each others' kids while rotating work schedules and keep the wolf and the government hand-outs out of the house!

quarters of negative growth have we had?

All this doom and gloom, I agree with Pogo -- buck up, work hard, do with less, and we'll weather this storm. Those other recession years were my teenage and young adult years. My dad owned his own business and had a large family. We had no health insurance (luckily we are a strong bunch with few accidents.) I worked while my husband finished college. Our first house was a foreclosure house that needed some work. Definitely not a dream home. The mortgage was at 13%. This doom and gloom is a self-feeding downward spiral. We think things are terrible and then they become even more terrible. Get to work and quit complaining! We'll be okay.

Has anyone noticed the economy is Utah is much better than nationally. It could be a lot worse. Our unemployment is low. Hello! All things considered, count your blessings! And enough with all this doom and gloom talk. Just get out of debt, save for a rainy day and get back to work!

If we brought our local investment back to Utah, instead of letting it evaporate in the Stock Market, we would be much better off. If we created an environment through proper legislation that kept the Billions (2?) of Utah Retirement Systems, and the large pile of money in the Intermountain retirement system in Utah, we wouldn't have to worry very much about the national/international economies. There are 2 candidates for public office in Utah that share this idea, Steve Maxfield Senate, and Wayne Crawford House. Both are from the Constitutional party and we would do well to get them into office to help Utah in these perilous times.

Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda, Mightof, are KEY-WORD'S in the speech's of those "GIANT-TALKING-HEADS" on TV, of "the drive by liberal news media", to make it "SOUND-AS-IF" the sky is falling, and will crush us all if it lands on us, filling everyone (that watches them) with "fear of loss and doom and gloom". So, "PANIC" sets in, stocks sell off in a hour, the DOW lose 9000 points, and POOF, another Trillion is lost for a day or two than it rebounds back. Three weeks to show that responsible Republican policies of cutting taxes and reining in out-of-control pork-barrel spending are what our economy needs to spur growth and create jobs, not huge Obama-Biden Democrat tax hikes, protectionism, and wasteful expenditures. Just three weeks to communicate the facts about our opponents that the liberal media won't: Barack Obama's troubling past and close ties to leftist radicals like Bill Ayers and convicted criminals like Tony Rezko. That's why "WE ALL NEED McCain and Sarah in OUR WHITE HOUSE 2008, hopefully to hace the FCC censor those liberal's once and for all, and stop that liberal homegrown terrorist news media BS, & tell the ACLU what they can do to." McCain 2008.