ok put the crack pipe down

AND BACK AWAY SLOWLY
(hey peeps if this isn't enough for you, WHAT THE EFF WILL IT TAKE?)
Recession? Cheney says America's economy is the 'envy of the world'
John Byrne
Vice President Dick Cheney, who declared $2.5 million in taxable income last year and $8.8 million in 2006, says America's economy is strong as ever.
The VP who said Iraq's insurgency was in it's "last throes" in 2005 and the economy is currently in a "rough patch" gave the financial health of the United States a ringing endorsement in Northeast Philadelphia Thursday morning.
Cheney said that the US economy “remains the envy of the world,” and that the recent “slowdown” might have been worse had Bush not enacted tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.
Because of this, he said, “the slowdown that did come was a fairly mild one.”
“For the better part of six years now, this nation's economy grew without pause,” Cheney added.........