My response to Bob Herbert’s column today about unemployed twenty-something college graduates is – “that sucks.” Now imagine what it’s like to be 55-years-old and out of work. That really sucks.

The financial eggheads who didn’t see the economic disaster looming over the horizon back in 2006 are now telling us that the recession is over, but they’re wrong.

The recession is over when we say it’s over, and clearly we’re still very much recessed, unless of course you work for Goldman Sachs – then you’d probably think the Gilded Age is back again. But for the rest of us, times are tough.

Read Herbert’s column.