Ooh Ooh, let me try:
1) Bush caused the economic collapse.
2) Baby Boomers couldn't retire due to stock market crashing
3) When the economy recovered, there were no open jobs from baby boomers that should have retired earlier but couldn't because of Bush.
So due to demographics, this economic recovery can't be judged like recoveries in the past. This recovery actually worked, you just can't see it yet.