The Economy Is Strong? Is It Really?

I have a problem with the President and his up and up talks about how great the economy is. Is it even true? I mean half the stuff i've heard from this administration is followed by more skeptics than people who actually believe it. I work in Michigan where more jobs seem to be lost than gained. Yes, most of it seems to be tied to the auto industry, but can that be the reason? My store is down 40% from last year which then was down 15% from the year before. A close family member of mine was just let go from his job after almost 30 years of service. To me it seems a struggling economy when every other house is for sale and offers are accepted at 90% of the asking price nine out of ten times. I would like to here more from other parts of the country and people who can tell me how it really is out there. I'm tired of reading it in the paper and hearing it in the news. Today I heard our brave leader talk about the great economy.... but could that be another statement far from the truth? Please feel free to let me know how your doing so I can here it from someone other than GW. We here about the low 4.8% unemployment rate, which means of 500 million working class people, 24 million are unemployed. Are we creating enough jobs for our growing population? How is this census taken? Is every area in the country included when they take it?
Remember that 10.5 million of the working class are illegal immigrants and the unemployment rate for them is 0% or they wouldn't be here.