events nationwide supporting the 2008 recovery month theme of join the voices for recovery: real people, real recovery. recovery month promotes the benefits of alcohol and drug use disorder treatment for individuals, their families, and their communities. it recognizes the contributions of treatment providers and promotes the message that recovery from alcohol and drug use disorders in all its forms is possible. today, we urge every person in this country to pause and reflect on the great gift of recovery and to thank the thousands of committed workers, counselors, health care providers, physicians, social workers, eap specialists, peer support, and others who toil daily to bring healing to

recovery. when it collapsed, we lost almost $1.20 trillion in annual demand. $600 billion and construction demand. glutted real-estate market, non-residential real-estate, and annual consumption because people had all of this wealth and the homes that evaporated. we lost over $1.20 trillion of demand from the private sector. right now the deficit is our friend. as much as it might sound strange, it is creating demand in this economy, people running around saying the government does not create jobs. if the government gives you a paycheck, it is a job. it might sound silly. people are not working not because there is a deficit but there is not enough demand in the economy. we need the government to fill the gap created by the end of private sector investment. that is the point i have been making, it is really a disaster. i find this strange saying people sang if we don't do something, 10 or 15 or 20 years, but this year we have 25 million people who are either out of work altogether, working short hours, like to work full time double or have given up looking. and we have te of million of the water in the mortgage, millions of lost their homes. if we are talking about the dead as this great pr