<p><img src="images/stories/townhalllogo.jpg" border="0" alt="Townhall.com" align="left" />I'll just let the <em>Associated Press</em> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/economic-recovery-weakest-since-world-war-ii-152031546--finance.html">do the explaining</a>:</p>
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<p id="yui_3_5_1_21_1345051304869_394">The <span id="lw_1345050657_4">recession</span> that ended three years ago this summer has been followed by <strong>the feeblest economic recovery since the Great Depression</strong>. Since World War II, 10 U.S. recessions have been followed by a recovery that lasted at least three years. An Associated Press analysis shows that by just about any measure, the one that began in June 2009 is the weakest. <strong>The ugliness goes well beyond unemployment, which at 8.3 percent is the highest this long after a <span id="lw_1345050657_5">recession</span> ended.</strong> Economic growth has never been weaker in a postwar recovery. Consumer spending has never been so slack. Only once has job growth been slower. More than in any other post-World War II recovery, people who have jobs are hurting: Their paychecks have fallen behind inflation.</p>
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<p><br />The report slogs through a <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/economic-recovery-weakest-since-world-war-ii-152031546--finance.html">roster of malaise</a> with sub-sections entitled, "feeble growth," "exhausted consumers," "the jobs hole," and "shrinking paychecks." CBS News rendered a strikingly similar <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfTmFdPpP0">verdict</a> last month:</p>
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