To all of the shit for brains who think the recession vs depression is a conservative conspiracy or think the gloom we have today is comparible. Try reading a fucking book or the statistics [[some have posted a few above) and tell me this is even close?
We aren't even close the unemployment suffered in the early 80s recession. And that is the problem with the internet generation [[or Generation Y or whatever the fuck someone wants to call them). They haven't suffered shit and believe they are entitled to anything and everything because they are alive.

And sure as shit the media whores themselves are as much to blame by stating this is close to the depression. They love nothing more than doom and gloom to sell their shill to the masses because the masses don't educat themselves. Swine flu, oops, I mean H1N1 flu is another clasic example.

When people fall down because they are too weak to stand or people make ketchup [[catsup for most) soup to feed themselves then we can compare this recession to the economic depression decade of 1929-1939; otherwise known as the lost decade.