New Mileposts in America

In reading around the net this morning, I read the post of a friend who shared this link. America now has more people employed in government than in manufacturing. Wonder what that will portend? It doesn't bring peaceful feelings to my heart.

Second picture: The increase in mortgage foreclosures.

My Mom was born in 1929. The year of the Great Depression. I have been thinking a lot about how they must have felt then. A young couple with a new baby - and the economy in the hole. Probably not unlike a lot of people feel now. They must have been scared. They must of wondered "why?"