Evan Newmark is Hopeful–America and Lindsay Lohan, Free At Last

For the past two years, we’ve been scarred and scared, imprisoned in our fears and an awful economy. We lived beyond our means. We paid the price.

This recession has been a terrible and wrathful one. In the fourth quarter of 2008, GDP fell a staggering 6.8%.

But the way things have been going over the past month suggests we may finally be stepping out of the prison gates and back into the glaring sunlight.

Could it be that America is free at last?

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