Whatever happened to those "green shoots"?

There’s nothing wrong with a little cheerleading. But there’s a real danger with all this “turning the corner, things are getting better, recovery is on the way” talk. If you don’t think so, just ask Herbert Hoover, who infamously claimed that “prosperity is just around the corner” right before the worst of the Great Depression.

At some point, someone is going to have to level with the American people about just how bad things really are and why, despite all the ministrations from Washington over the past two years, they don’t seem to be getting much better.