OK, I'm glad some of you are doing so well and believe that this Bush economy is just rosy. Here is a little of it from my perspective .
I have some stock from a place where I used to work. For about 20 years it did go up from time to time and would split every so often . After Clinton balanced the national budget, it started going up fast. It would double and split every 2 years. Dividends became enough to make a difference every quarter.
After Bush decided to piss away the surplus, and put our nation into debt to China, that stock made no more upward move. It now has fallen to 1/3 the value it was at the start of Bush's rule of madness, and the last quarter dividend was half of what it used to be, and next quarter it will be about 1/2 of that.
Don't try to tell me that all is just fine, this is a very large stable company, and reflects what's going on in the economy as a whole.