Its great that GOD showed up and told us the bottom was in and its time to buy! Unfortunately,your last statement pretty much gave a null and void of all your previous comments. Its to bad that fundamentals are fundamentally ignored in a society of ignorance.
Up. Always has always will. It does go down in times like we have now but since inception it's gone up. As the worlds economic machine continues to grow it will go up. As growing pains happen it will go down but the general trend is up.
Here's a link to a 100 year chart in the US. There is that upward drift. http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/12/100_year_bull_b.html