The Decline. The Geography of the Recession

Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the is an interactive map of the rising unemployment rate since 2007. It's frightening. If you include not only those fully unemployed, but those forced to take part time work, and have given up looking for work, we're looking at about 31 million people, 9.7% of the population.

Map here.

Plus, as of this posting, we are $13.2 trillion in debt. That's about $43,000 for each living American citizen. That includes you children. If your baby is born today, he/she is beginning life with that financial burden.

Yet this administration continues to spend, borrow, waste money, and pass bills that keeps the private sector sidelined and oppressed.