Hearing news that we are heading into recovery and turned the corner and such, a couple of Columbian articles make me question if we really are or not.

Per capita income down 3% in Portland-Vancouver

Home sales in county tumble 48 percent in July

For all of the campaign rhetoric around the country of “we cannot go back to the failed policies of George W. Bush,” I don’t know about you, but I sure enjoyed a higher standard of living during those “failed policies.”