Comparing the Great Depression to Now - How Now is Worse

David Leonhardt has a good piece comparing the Great Depression to the current economic problems in terms of how the shadow of the Depression American industry was building the base for the economic growth in subsequent decades.  He notes that this does not seem to be happening now.  His basic point of how were have a cyclical downturn built on a structural growth downturn is a troubling idea.  The article also has this good graph of job creation looking back over sixty years.