It's been slowly becoming more and more obvious as the government is basically refusing to acknowledge that anything is wrong and has been just sitting there waiting for oil to rebound for a year now.

Even if we go into a recession (in technical terms; 2 quarters of GDP decline) I'm honestly not that worried. The GDP numbers which are negative are marginally so (like -0.2%, etc.). It is based solely upon the oil industry and it is largely regional. For sure Alberta is getting the brunt of it. But it is no way comparable to the 2008 Financial Crisis. Also, thankfully the U.S. is doing well and will hopefully bring us up shortly.

TL;DR it's not that big of a deal if we do enter a recession.

They specifically said that both parties are corrupt and in the pockets of corporations, though? Anyone that actually follows politics that most Democrats are bought by the same people as the Republicans, and they didn't say anything different and encouraged people to vote third-party (i.e., not Democrats.)

Funny that you jump to the conclusion that they were only saying Republicans support corporate interests.

What makes you think the US is doing well?

Our economy is built on a house of cards right now.

We are adding jobs but not good jobs, a lost $60 an hour job is replaced with 4 $10 an hour service jobs. In other words the quality of the jobs created does not match the quality of the jobs that were lost.

Plus the Fed is planning on increasing the interest rates, probably in the fall. That's going to slow things down a bit.

ughh not again

meh. my finances are very secure, so who cares if the rest of the country is down.

Mine are also for the most part I have triggers all over my accounts if the markets start to melt down. I would probably lose around 20% of my current value but that is nothing compared to what I have made over the past 6 years. Then I will just jump back in at the bottom and ride it back up.