Agreed the recession is NOT over. Don't believe the government and mass medias lies.
The economy hasnt yet fully shifted to a up swing yet. Its getting closer to winter and the holidays. Even in a shit economy. People and companys spend, buy, sell more money and things around this part of the year. You will see a dip in traffic in January 2011.
On a side note. 2008 was terrible in comparison to 2000 and 2001. As we all know. The shit hit the fan in late 2001 and theres been a shit covered fan and wall street ever sence. Which has had a negative trickling effect refelcted on pretty much every single marketable product and business for almost a decade now.
Don't believe for a minute that the united states is safe from going almost 3rd world at anytime just yet. The US is still just keeping its pants on with a hilly billy rope belt right now. There is still a long term high national average unemployment rate of 9.6% to 10%. That translates in to 1 in 10 people are not working. Out of that 9 are 7 that are not making enough money to actaully live well or be beyond the poverty level. In short less then roughly 70% of Americans actually have any money to play with still.