It’s spring break time in Saranac Lake, when many families flee the mud season and use the two-week school vacation to visit sunnier spots.<\/p>\n
With my wife Susan and son Nicholas, I set off on a driving trip that looped down through Pennsylvania, plunging into the South, then across the Midwest.<\/p>\n
The surprising part of our trip was the burgeoning evidence of an economic recovery. The roads were frantic with tractor-trailers. <\/p>\n
The restaurants were packed. The National Parks and rest areas were thrumming. <\/p>\n
When we stopped to pick up forgotten essentials — a bathing suit for Nicholas, an attachment for my Ipod — we found the stores busy with customers.<\/p>\n
This entirely anecdotal research was echoed today by news that the US economy added 162,000 jobs in March — the largest gain in three years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had this massive disaster, but we\u2019re at a place now where things are stabilizing,\u201d said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, in an interview with the New York Times. <\/p>\n
A lot of the jobs growth came as new Census workers were added. That’s another stimulus created by the Federal government, and it’s sure to be controversial.<\/p>\n
There’s no doubt that at some point — and fairly soon — we’ll have to start weaning ourselves from an excess of government spending. <\/p>\n
We’re learning this painful lesson now in northern New York, where taxpayer jobs are fading away with no good plan in place to bolster private sector employment.<\/p>\n
But for the moment, it appears that we’ve avoided tipping off the cliff. <\/p>\n
Americans are out on the road again, working, shopping and going about their lives.<\/p>\n
For businesses in the Adirondacks hoping for a busy season this summer, that has to be a welcome sign of spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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