People did spend their money, buisness did not. That is FACT. That is why the economy is taking so long to recover.
Buisness tend to look in the short run of things not in the long run. What is the easiest way to make money? Lay off a bunch of workers and bang your revenue increases.
Our ecomony is not really recovering. We are just seeing the aftermath of President Bush's spending habits in regards to "War."
The economy will slump again soon. If it doesn't that means that buisness throughut the US are seeing some sort of means to think in the long run. When companies start seeing the advantages to more production, without war, we will see true gains and not just some blip in the market.
I am a firm believer in bringing jobs back to the US. I don't believe Bush's OR Kerry's plan will be advantagous though. The only way we will ever see *decent* labor jobs back in the US is when the government make a capatolist desicion and works with diffrent compains (IE: Not specific ones that certain people own lots of stock in).