Um, does anyone understand the difference between nominal and real data? There are probably a lot more lay offs because there are a lot more jobs to go around, see what I mean? I need a chart that shows percentages.

Only if we listen to the gloom and doom media who are still cat-calling for OLD businesses. “please buy our worthless crap! please buy our worthless crap! it served your parents and grandparents well, so, please buy our worthless crap” (that would be the red and blue line recessions)
Stare not at the OLD toppling down around us…well, except notice where they are falling so you can get the floop out from under their path.
Look instead to the FUTURE. Get creative! Gasoline is dead (as dead as Kellogg) and ethanol is too little, too late. Nuclear has a waste period longer than mankind's recorded history, though to hear some, that is the only way to go.
Wind turbines are good for steady winds and if you have the system aligned and serviced regularly, but there are other wind collectors made specifically for gusting states and ares. Solar power also gives us needed power, and while it's true about clouds, the simple fact is, your local energy dealers are pressing on the idea that solar doesn't work at all. (evidently, they don't realize that another industry rising is batteries)
What's missing?
MANPOWER!
Magnetos….dang! Sit at a bicycle indoors and watch TV. Pedal the thing on. Whatever you do, STOP PAYING HOMAGE TO THE PAST. IT IS DEAD AND GONE!

Veronica Belmont is such a cool name!

Thanks, Bush. GOP EPIC FAIL $1.6 trillion dollars = Iraq War
$800 billion dollars = helping Americans