Reality Check on Jobs

Forget the fancy graphs (however they are colorful) and all those figures they throw out all the time. Look around in your own town and you be the judge are how America is doing. It not rocket science to see we are doing poorly in the new job market as well as many other places. The government treats us like mushrooms they keep us in the dark and feeds us $HIT all the time. The Candidates are all out hitting the trail drumming up votes and have forgotten what is most important the American Citizen the American Dream. Everyone has the answer and yet nobody can solve the problem. The United States is in one sorry state of affairs in my opinion and we have people running around at every whistle stop trying to get votes. As they say figures don't lie but liars figure or something like that.

Remember these lines

Shovel ready jobs
By passing this bill unemployment will not go over 8%

Unemployment rate dropped in November only because 300,000 people dropped out of the work force,otherwise it would still be at 9%. The % of adult Americans has steadily dropped since owebama took office. The number of Americans unemployed, on food stamps and living below the poverty line are at all time highs.

The Stimulous saved us from another Great Depression--- but no one understood the recession was as bad as it was. The stimulous couldn't pull us out totally.
Obama isn't the cause of this- he's guiding the ship as best as anyone.

I've heard it said, that if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

Borrowing money from our grandchildren to create temporary jobs (and a patronage army) is not a long term solution. The government CANNOT create long term jobs except for politicians and bureaucrats. Private industry creates long term jobs and the sooner our government understands this, the sooner we will return to growth and start paying off our national debt.

I also like that 5% unemployment rate much better under our former President.

Can we get that back ....... pretty please.

Financial Times' Ed Luce, who writes, 'According to government statistics, if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11 percent.'"

What would the unemployment rate be if the states and local governments had not started laying off so many people? From what I can gather, upwards of 600,000 government workers at all levels have been laid off in the last 18 months or so, and perhaps 200,000 have retired and not been replaced. The private sector has been adding jobs for the last year, but the growth is skewed by the reduction in government workers.

The private sector has been adding jobs for the last year, but the growth is skewed by the reduction in government workers.....many of whom were hired as temporary labor as part of the stimulus / porkulus package.

If we must borrow to pay their salaries -- why should they remain employed?

If you have to borrow to buy groceries, how long will YOU be able to buy groceries?

One of the reasons you have credit is to get you thru rough times. I suppose you never used your credit card to pay for something you needed buy couldn't afford at the moment? I don't know about you, but I certainly used my credit cards to buy groceries at lean times.