Part One: America In Economic Crisis

Now that we are finished with the introduction section to Mitt Romney's "Believe in America: Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth," it's time for the good stuff. The Economic Plan. The meat of the issue. The heart of the matter. The shark in a group of sardines. The coffee at an AA meeting. It's the one thing that everyone is talking about!
If you missed the first installment in this series here it is: Introduction to Mitt Romney's Economic and Growth Plan.

Now that we know what Willard Mitt Romney will do on the first day he is in office, let's see what he has to say and has planned for the economy.
A Crisis of Unemployment
Smart man: start off with the biggest issue. According to Romney, the housing bubble that burst is reverberated and is now "cutting into the fabric of American society". No hyperbole there.
The Worst Recession
Here Romney gives us a ride down memory lane and reminds us how great things were before 2008. He throws some stats our direction and tells us that this unemployment upswing is second only to the Great Depression. He let's us in on the little secret that "[The Great Depression] dwarfs all other economic downdrafts in our history." Ya know, in case we forgot.
More stats and a little background on what happened before 2008 leads us into the many causes of the Great Recession, which are numerous and boring. He laid the blame for the recession on both parties, yet manages to still take a shot at Obama. According to government studies, we began an economic recovery in 2009. So the last few years have been, "the most lackluster in our nation's history."
Main point: Unemployment is high, but could be higher.
The Hardest Hit
Popular states with a lot of people in them have the highest unemployment and those with lower populations and less of a desire to live there have lower rates. Not surprising. Romney goes on to extrapolate this and show numbers for the people that are under-worked or those who have stopped filing claims. It has been too long without a depressing senten-- wait here it is. "We are squarely in the midst of a jobless recovery, if it can be called a recovery at all." That's more like it Mitt! Time for the appeal to the other ethnicities..... "African Americans and Hispanics... have fallen on especially hard times." He goes on to include "Young Americans" and "unskilled workers".
Romney references the amount of skilled working positions and how there are not any American workers to take those jobs. He says that the gap between unskilled and skilled workers is "troubling", yet he gives no inclination on how to fix this.
No End In Sight 
The recovery that never was
According to Romney and his statisticians observed the "anemic" recovery of the economy in the last few years. After doing so, he compares it to the recovery of the 1980's double-dip recession, but that just isn't fair because, ya know, Ronald Reagan. He follows this with the accusation that, "President Obama’s recovery, by contrast, never even started."
The Long-Term Tragedy
By using scare words, Romney provides no statistics, but makes you think that the long-term unemployment levels are shockingly high. Clever. He follows this by explaining the effects of long-term unemployment on a career, which only needs explaining if you are a Mitt Romney supporter.

That wraps up Part One. Next up is Part Two: President Obama's Failure. This will be good.