Almost a Trillion dollars in U.S. tax dollars left over after paying off groups that have killed U.S. troops! Bush and McCains great success!!

Recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. The United States has yet to experience 1 quarter of negative growth farless two.

Nver said it did! Your knee jerk reaction is kinda funny! But many would argue that the next 2 quarters may give you what you need to call Bush and McCains economy the disaster it is!

In the meantime your friendly oil producers have experienced a 45% decline in the saleable price of thier only exportable commodity....unless you figure sand is worth something. IF a recession happens here and that's a big if....Oil will drop to ten dollars/barrel. Opec will be bankrupt.

As long as Big oil loses their ass for gouging us the last 8 years I could give a rats ass less!

You do understand you'll be blamed for ruining their economy. Venezuela, Russia, Iran,...reduced to eating grubs and worms to survive. The Death to America chant.

Perhaps we can make an exception in this case. There is negative--and then there is negative.

BTW, good luck with the placebo effect this fall.

Placebo seems to want to put off the official beginning of the upcoming recession until after President Obama is sworn in.

I wunner why that would be.

Yes, well, the Iraqis did not ask us to invade them, or occupy them, or slaughter 1 million of them, or make 4.5 million of them refugees either in Syria and Jordan or in their own country.

Some of us always find a way to be pathetic and "oppressed" out of one side of our mouths, then "#1" out of the other...how a people could be a SUPERPOWER and whine so much is way beyond my ability to comprehend, other than we are DEVILS of some kind.

I have it hard, hell, really hard, but not as hard as the Iraqis, so stop bitching about them.