I am in the same boat since July-I had a nice 6 figure income and was on top of my game in medical sales it sucks donkey balls. Glad people voted for the man and not his plan. Feels good to say that back then didn't it? yeah, McCain sucked as well, but lesser of the two evils. Actually, I hate to admit Sarah Palin probably gets "it" more than any of those other politicians, and she isn't as dumb as th epress reports her to be. If she was, why are they Libs and presstards so threatened by her. Say what you wish about Bush, he got his nuts handed to him on the nightly news cuz unemployment was at %5.5. He loved this country and he had an umbilical cord directly to the US people. We are probably at (real unemployment) 14% and not a word is said other than "it's not Obama's fault (even though he has been in Washington for over 7 years)" and "he sure is improving his golf game and taking nice vacations". Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. BHO wishes to build wealth from the ground up- guess what? I have never worked for a poor person. Many poor in the country are there because of their own dumb a$$ choices/ bad decisions. We get free education and if you choose to piss it down your leg and stay home and play Atari (yeah I said Atari- I'm old and don't get the hype about the PS3 even though we have 2 of them). America is hurting and it will be a while till its gets better. I minored in Econ and I can tell you that when your country's debt obligations are almost at 80% (13.5 trillion vs 16 trillion) of GNP- there are going to be huge problems down the road. China was buying our grain to drive up prices cuz our dollar is falling. yeah, deflation(weak dollar) helps exports but the hell are we exporting anymore? The stock market is buoyed on zero percent government loans to banks (and many companies-Goldman Sachs, Jp Morgan are now banks) and they are buying stocks with little to no risk- We have become the Japanese in the sense we import almost everything. Labor unions have made it very difficult to make anything here or our best paying jobs are now in the government sector(another big a$$ union). Now the TSA has become a bunch of adulterers. I really don't wish to debate most of the above without you checking into the current facts outside of MSNBC or CNN. Yeah, I watch a lot of FOX and listen to Rush and occasionally Beck. beck kicks the crap kicked out of him in he media but what he has said or written the past 10 years has come to pass. Same with Rush- i can take him in small doses but there is not many people that can command a micro phone for 3 hours a day and be relevant and almost right most of the time. Don't believe me? have you ever tried to listen to Al Franken? One last thing about China- they are buying lots of resources (Africa-Cuba) (gold,diamonds,oil,grain) and we are watching it all happen. Ok- I am done ranting. Thanks. It was cathartic and sorry if I insulted your personal Jesus- Obama.