What I observe is that the economic recovery is being felt unevenly across the country. Upticks in employment figures don't necessarily represent job growth in Kansas, for example - not if Sam Brownback has anything to say about it. Add a few jobs, cut a few jobs but arbitrarily omit them from reported figures, cut benefits for the needy, employ regressive taxation strategies...
Some people are seeing things as better, some people just can't catch a break...
overall it's an improvement and, most importantly, a stabilization. otherwise, remember the carnage 4 years ago? layoffs everywhere, companies filing for bankrupcy left and right, houses foreclosed like dominos, talks of governments at various levels going bankrupt, discussion of inviting the chinese in to bail the US out, etc.
it was chaotic and unsettling.
now, the worst thing you can say is, "but but i'd like to see a little more improvement here, maybe there as well".
