Recession's Over!

Back to back DJIA increases! GM says it doesn't need money for March! The recession is over!

Finally. I can get back to blogging about Elk Grove's bad urban design instead of macro economics. March 12th will go down in history as the day the Great Recession ended.

Here in Elk Grove, this recession hasn't impacted anyone. Aside from the several odd thousand foreclosed housal units, the average Elk Grovian isn't employed in the boom or bust industries of manufacturing, strip retail or construction. No, manufacturing jobs don't exist in Elk Grove. No one who works in Elk Grovian retail can afford to live in Elk Grove. Retail jobs are farmed out to the poorer South Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, Valley Hi, and Rosemont residents. Let all those fuckers commute in to service us, as they do with every other disparate community like Rocklin, Folsom, and Serrano, and let all of us commute to other cities where the real jobs are. Lastly, construction workers can't afford Elk Grove housal units. What, you think some tract-home lathe and plaster guy's gonna plunk down $280,000 for the housal units he builds? No way.

So Elk Grove residents are doing quite well, working in sectors that weren't impacted by our ending recession and who, like me, work in another city altogether.

Things are looking bright and beautiful for my Elk Grove.