Orwell had it right. Stagnation is recovery; increases in the cost of medical insurance are affordable care; illegal aliens are immigrants; huge increases in debt for government boondoggles are investment; fleeing the highest corporate tax rate in the world is unpatriotic; putting one's faith in a complete idiot is hope, and making a government that has been getting bigger, more intrusive, and more corrupt for decades even bigger, even more intrusive, and even more corrupt is change.

Growth slightly above stagnation seems to be the new normal.

"An economic recovery built on sand"
The Dark Center was built on a swamp, and it is still a swamp... one that swallows up and wastes almost half the production of a once free people.

Inflows to the treasury are at an all-time high. Sucking this much money out of the economy can only be a positive result if productivity is dramatically increasing. If this is not the case, taking so much money out of the private sector will send the country into another recession next year at the latest. And the current recovery, if it can be called that, is a very tepid one.

I'm actively hiring, so I'm optimistic about the economy.