Originally Posted by peragro

That's an interesting perspecitve, which I agree with. The statistics of concern are national statistics and thus apply to the nation, not the locale. If you (generic third person you) think your economy is bad locally, perhaps you should look to the local conditions as to why that is rather than place blame on a national level. Although the good fortune of the nation as a whole is better to the locale than if it were in the crapper.