Why The economy isn't growing.

 Have you ever made a bet to settle an argument when you were a child?  That your dad could beat up their dad?

Let's say you made and won that childish bet...for a million dollars.  Then you went on a spending spree, running up huge bills in farmville. But the money never appeared.  The bills for your farmville purchases came, but the million dollars never showed up. 

You can barely pay the minimum payment on the bills.  Nothing left over. 

When this happens to a whole economy, it's called a recession.

and we'll stay in the recession until "farmville" writes off our debt.