My family has been severely negatively effected by the unemployment rate, trust me, I know how it is out there right now. Honestly though, it is improving. It takes time to recover, it is hard to be patient in a time like this, but it is the only thing you can do. I understand why people voted republican this time around - they are upset and scared of what is going on with the economy. Kicking a party out after only being in there with the current President for two years is too soon though imo. We have seen that the GDP has made significant strides, employment will be shooting up. Something that really irks me though is when people say they hope Obama fails or the dems fail, or hell even from my point of view, the Republicans fail when they are in power. All this says is that they hope the country and the citizens as a whole suffer and fail. If you want Obama to fail right now, then that means that you want the entire country to collapse, because that is what will happen if he were to completely fail. If the economy were to collapse and he was 100% responsible, you could sit there and laugh at him, but the problem would end up being your own. / off topic rant