Quote Originally Posted by HoustonRaven View Post
Using your water analogy, I'd say is drowning by way of drips.

There is a reason most businesses use 3% as the standard cost of living raise because that's the statistical average of growth in the US. 2% growth is still growth, yes, but when everything is increasing at a high rate, even if it's a modest 1%, it's still a slow burn towards the bad side of the economy.
and that may be better. 3 years ago we were drowning, pretty deep. how fast can you realistically expect to recover from a -4% entire year. seeing as thats where we were just a few years ago, i consider a stable 2-3% good comparatively and am not really arguing that there isnt obvious room to improve. There seems to be ebs and flow in everything, but our GDP is one thing thats basically always gone up. Taking a hit like that was unprecedented and thats why i feel people are being unrealistic with their expectations in its recovery.