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Jobless Rate Worsens to 9.6% in August, Congress Needs to Act
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The U.S. jobless rate worsened to 9.6 percent in August from 9.5 percent in July, with 54,000 jobs lost, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data out today. The private sector created only 67,000 jobs in August, far below the 150,000 jobs a month needed to keep up with the population and extremely far below the hundreds of thousands of new jobs needed each month to return to pre-recession employment levels. Government employment fell by 121,000, largely reflecting the loss of 114,000 temporary workers hired for U.S. Census 2010.
The number of people who are underemployed, which includes those who are too discouraged to look for work or are working part-time out of economic necessity, worsened to 16.7 percent from 16.5 percent in July. More than 26 million U.S. workers are without jobs or full-time work. The long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) declined by 323,000 over the month to 6.2 million. In August, 42.0 percent of unemployed persons had been jobless for 27 weeks or more.
Jobs increased in health care (28,000); mining (8,000); and construction (19,000). Manufacturing employment declined by 27,000 in August.
Maybe when Congress gets back in town, lawmakers—especially those Republicans who repeatedly have blocked extending unemployment insurance and funding for jobs programs—can finally figure it out: The private sector is not creating jobs.
Discussing the “Be nice to us or we’ll quit investing,” threats by Big Business to Congress and the White House if they pass regulations to rein in corporate greed, Yves Smith writes:
Guess what? As we’ve indicated, big businesses were net disinvesting even during the corporate-friendly Bush Administration.
And it’s getting worse. Big Business isn’t creating jobs and yet corporate mouthpieces have the gall to attack unemployed workers. In one such screed this week, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed slamming unemployment insurance. As former Labor Secretary Robert Reich wrote in rebuttal:
A majority of the jobless typically have moved from job to job before they failed to find a new one, or have held a number of part-time jobs.
So it’s hard to make the case that many of the unemployed have chosen to remain jobless and collect unemployment benefits rather than work.
And then there’s the not-so-small fact that there are more than five workers for every one job in this country.
As Reich writes, extending unemployment insurance is a basic action of a civil society. In addition, lawmakers need to move federal funding to create more jobs.
Mark Weisbrot at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is among many economists calling for more immediate federal aid to address the nation’s jobs crisis.
Republicans have successfully promoted the idea that we already tried a stimulus and it didn’t help. There are few, if any, economists who would agree. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that between 1.4 and 3.3 million more people were employed by mid-2010, because of the stimulus.
The American public knows how such job creation can be funded: A clear majority of those polled favors federal spending to create jobs, and letting the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is calling on Congress to “take up and pass legislation that will create jobs and rebuild America, starting with the Surface Transportation bill, Clean Water Authorization, clean energy infrastructure spending, and expansion of nuclear power loan guarantees.”
We will not allow Republicans, who continue to say no to jobs, say no to unemployment benefits and want to privatize and cut Social Security, to derail our efforts to fight for a middle class economy. The future that we leave for our children depends on our success in beating back these barriers.
Today’s jobs data, combined with a new study showing that four of the five fastest growing occupations between 2006 and 2009 pay below the median wage ($15.95 an hour in May 2009) and a report that an appalling one in six Americans now is enrolled in an anti-poverty program, it’s long past time for Congress to act.
The last word goes to Reich:
A record number of Americans is unemployed for a record length of time. This is a national tragedy.
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I do not agree. I am for tax cuts and not government spending. Business does not want to create jobs because of the increase in taxes and the health care costs that are coming. Private business is the only way to make lasting jobs. So we cut the corporate tax to 11% and have a flat tax of 11% for everybody. That way everybody pays and that means the rich. No loop holes for the rich .
Are you kidding me? You must have drunk the Glenn Beck kool-aid, sweartogod. Businesses are shedding jobs. Government is needed to jump start the transition to the green economy that is coming, with millions of new union jobs in public transportation, rail, associated MANUFACTURING industries (like steel) and renewables. The market won’t do it, baby. Read your history. There was something called the Great Depression in the 1930s. Remember, a Republican President who thought the market would correct tself? Oops, that didn’t work out too well, did it? Followed by the New Deal. Where a Democratic President teamed up with the labor movement got us out of it. Yep, I’m pretty sure the government might have had something to do with it. Wake up, people!
You are not reading history right. Government spending never got us out of the Great Depression. We had double digit unemployment all during Roosevelt Administration. Only the war got us of the Depression. You get brainwashed by leftis liberals who think government is the answer to everything. The Soviet Union did it your way and ended up in the trash bin of history.
The War was Government spending!! Duh!! You have fed into the right wings view of the world and in doing so; are so far from reality,that you you can not think or speak rationally!!! Step away from the Kool-Aid and think about what it is your spewing!!!
Garbage in!! Garbage out!!
Ten years of Bush authorized tax cuts did not prevent this economic downturn. Diregulation only served to aggravate the current economic condition. The deficits were produced by a combination of the tax cuts
and the ill conceived wars in Iraq and Afganistan. At least we are in the process of getting out of Iraq and with judicious planning we will get out Afganistan. Which is better than the plans that right wingers have for us.
We have a 921 billion taX INCREASE coming in Jan 2011. That will cure everything. We can use the money and try another stimulus. That should cook Obamas goose.
Government is not the answer. It’s the problem.
Creating greater entitlement spending and laying the costs of increased taxes and mandated health care expenses on top of already struggling small businesses are what’s killing jobs.
Printing more money to cover the debt that China et. al are less and less interested in scooping up devalues the few dollars individuals have to spend, constricts consumer confidence (spending and buying), which strangles business which kills jobs.
And all you can come up with is the government needs to spend even more. You people are pathetic.
You must have drunk that GB Kool-Aid too, Downtown Dan. See my response to sweartogod above.
You must been have drinking Kool Aid. To have government run business like steel,rubber,and etc is laughable. Hell those guys can not even run government. Cannot win wars,stop drugs,stop crime,and etc. They have destroyed the family with entitlements that reward you not to work. The liberal utopia is a failure. The only thing that works is free capitalist economy.
@ dzothub – You seem to be quite the Revisionist Cliff Notes history student. That’s the problem with the Liberal/Progressivist Education Gulag. they don’t educate they indoctrinate and people like you swallow it hook, line and sinker as pravda.
Let’s dig a little deeper at real events. It was not “the glorious worker”, or the “fearless leader” who broke the back of the depression. In fact it was in great measure the lack of consumer confidence and their reduced participation that made what should have been a brief period into the decade long and self digging great depression it was.
Smoot-Hawley, a Republican approach to protecting US farmers, manufacturers and industrialists was another government intervention that caused a tariff war that predictably had the reverse effect on the American economy. Had the government resisted intercession business and employment would not have experienced the sharp downturn it did following the signing of the act.
Further government intervention came in the form of government projects such as the Hoover Dam and were continued under FDR’s New Deal which eased the unemployment figures but didn’t actually end the depression. Even FDR’s aid to China and Great Britain under lend-lease didn’t accomplish that. While a substantial improvement from the 1933 high of 25%, the 1940 unemployment rate was 15%.
It was the shifting of over 16 million mostly men of employment age to the armed forces and war production at home that finally drove unemployment down to mid single digits where it has generally remained until 2009.
dzothub: You seem to be quite the Revisionist Cliff Notes history student. That’s the problem with the Liberal/Progressivist Education Gulag. they don’t educate they indoctrinate and people like you swallow it hook, line and sinker as pravda.
Let’s dig a little deeper at real events. It was not “the glorious worker”, or the “fearless leader” who broke the back of the depression. In fact it was in great measure the lack of consumer confidence and their reduced participation that made what should have been a brief period into the decade long and self digging great depression it was.
Smoot-Hawley, a Republican approach to protecting US farmers, manufacturers and industrialists was another government intervention that caused a tariff war that predictably had the reverse effect on the American economy. Had the government resisted intercession business and employment would not have experienced the sharp downturn it did following the signing of the act.
Further government intervention came in the form of government projects such as the Hoover Dam and were continued under FDR’s New Deal which eased the unemployment figures but didn’t actually end the depression. Even FDR’s aid to China and Great Britain under lend-lease didn’t accomplish that. While a substantial improvement from the 1933 high of 25%, the 1940 unemployment rate was 15%.
It was the shifting of over 16 million mostly men of employment age to the armed forces and war production at home that finally drove unemployment down to mid single digits where it has generally remained until 2009.
So when the Treasury and Federal Reserve bailout wall street and big banks;government is unobtrusive but when the people ask for help that’s too much government intervention!!
SOMEONE LISTENS TO FUX NOISE TOO MUCH!!!!
SMARTEN THE FUCK UP!!!!!
Congress will not act nor will the President because they are both tethered hook, line and sinker to corporate control.
And it’s not only about jobs as the American Prospect points out in their special Labor Day issue. The AP makes some excellent suggestions, unfortunately they require Presidential & Congressional action on behalf of American workers, and that’s NOT going to happen. Here’s the link…
http://www.prospect.org/cs/archive/view-report?reportId=102
US LABOR PARTY
I’m not sure what your point is, but I also am a mailman, the “volunteer” goto guy for OWCP and the 3rd CDL for Louisians, which means I have spent a great deal of time connecting with Senators and Congressmen, both National and State. I know first hand that even though the Democrats don’t give us everything we want, it is the republicans that don’t care to cooperate on any level. Sometimes voting against someone or not voting at all is the same as voting for his opponent. Quite often it is voting for the lesser of 2 evils. Personally, I love Obama and the path he is going in and certainly hope that he can continue. Remember, we were on a seriously damaged ship and quickly sinking. You have to level out and make repairs before you can start rising again.
WE NEED TO VOTE CORRUPTION OUT OF OFFICE THIS FALL AND VOTE FOR ALL PARTYS THAT ARE LABOR FRIENDLY ! NEXT ALL AMERICANS DEMAND ILLEGALS REMOVED FROM AMERICA AND STOP IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA UNTIL THE CAN GET ALL AMERICANS BACK WORKING AND THAT ANT NO BULL!
Correction, here’s the link.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/archive/view_report?reportId=102
US LABOR PARTY.
Continue to listen to Hilda solis, who advocates illegal aliens coming here, then keep sending corporations to other countries so they can hire help for pennies, giving them tax breaks to do that, and WHAT THE HELL CAN YOU EXPECT??? Half of Mexico is here working for CASH, paying NO TAXES, but getting 338 billion in welfare every year, and sending it back to Mexico. Corporations are leaving America, and of course there are NO JOBS. The ones who don’t want taxes are the ULTRA WEALTHY, who OWN the corporations leaving for other countries.
No common sense anywhere any more.. If we ran our households like the government we would ALL be on the breadline. Rid us of illegals, quit buying from any company that does not produse products in AMERICA… Problem solved!! Enforce AMERICAN BUYING ONLY!!
WE HAD 3 PAST PRESIDENT IN THE LAST DEPRESSION , WE ARE IN ONE NOW THE LAST DEPRESSION WAS BAD THIS IS LIKE IT TOO! IT TAKE 2 DOEN TURN QUARTERS TO MAKE A DEPRESSION WE HAVE BEEN IN ONE NOW FOR JUST ABOUT 2 YEARS ! AND WE ARE AT WAR WITH MOSLUM TERRORIST IN THE WORLD !
NOW IF NO ONE SEE’S THAT THEY NEED HELP TO SEE THINGS IN THE RIGHT LIGHT !
THE PAST PRESIDENTS HOOVER , TRUMAN AND IKE , IKE ALONE STOPPED IMMIGRATION AND REMOVED OVER 14 MILLION ILLEGALS TO GIVE JOBS TO AMERICANS IN LESS THEN 2 YEARS ! HE CALLED IT OPERATION WET BACK !
NOW HOW DID THOSE POEPLE , POLITICANS KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT WORK LESS BULL AND MORW WORK FOR AMERICANS , NOW WE ARE GETTING MORE BULL AND NO WORK , THE SENIOR POLITICANS OF AMERICA FOR OVER 30 YEARS HAVE SET AMERICA UP FOR FAILURE , AMERICANS SHOULD DEMAND A INVESTIGATION OF THE TIME IN OFFICE OF ALL THERE VOTING RECORDS AND LOBBYIST MONEY AND WHAT THEY VOTED FOR AND SEE IF THEY ARE IN VIOLATION !
Which article? The link you have is broken
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Alex, See the corrected link. In solidarity. Richie
It will happen if– and only if– WE make it happen. You’re right, if we sit around waiting for Congress to act , or just complain from the sidelines that nothing’s happening, or wait for the next election, or wait for the perfect revolution, nothing will happen. On the other hand,if we ORGANIZE EVERY DAY, if we to turn ourselves and our friends and neighbors out for the One Nation Working Together national mobilization on 10.2.10, just to give one example, we can make the change happen. Check it out! http://www.onenationworking together.org. See you on 10.2.10!
On the one hand, it’s good to have the weeks horror-statistics rounded up in one place. Thank you, Tula. On the other hand, it is horrible.
americans across the nation , just about 60 days you can have job creation , all you have to do is vote out the democarts , get a new speaker and a new senate leader and you will see jobs in america , the democarts have controlled congres and the senate tottally the last 4 years and nothing thats why were at right now in a depression and 6.7 trillion in tax dollars spent and all failed , wht does it take for the lights to come !
All your info is false.We have a history from 2001 to 2009 that tells any reasonable person that trickle down economics works solely for the very Wealthy and destroys everyone else!!!
THESE PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM;SPEWING THEIR GLENN PECKERHEAD AND SARAHNOID LIES ARE FUCKIN PLANTS FOR THE GOPigs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELL , WE HAVE 50 MILLION PEOPLE OUT OF WORK RIGHT NOW , AND MOST JOBS CREATION HAVE BEEN IN GOVERNMENT FOR ALL THE NEW PROGRAMS , BIGGER GOVERNMENT IS NOT THE ANSER FOR JOB CREATION , IT BRINGS BIG TAXES AND NEXT YEAR ITS 3.8 TRILLION , THATS NOT TRICKEL DOWN ECONOMICS, THATS A ONE WAY STREET !
JACK TRUMKA TODAY ON CNN WITH CANDY CROWLEY ON THE STATE OF THE UNION T V PROGRAM JACK TRUMKA SAID WITH TODD MC CRACKEN OF THE N S B A THAT OBAMA MADE A MAJOR MISTAKE FOR WORKING AMERICANS IN NOT STARTING WITH JOBS FIRST AND HELPING SMALL BUISNESS , 97% OF THE STIMULUS MONEY WAS DIRECTED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AND 2 YEARS LATER THERE IS STILL NOTHING !
There is no Master Plan for the unemployment problem.
Many of you who post here could do a better job of coming up with one than all three branches of our government.
It’s time we all make our ideas known.
#! Any company that is a govt contractor must not be allowed to lay off workers without a sizable penalty (double the annual wage package for the employee.
Your turns…
12 hours for moderation? Either they took the weekend off or they’re censoring opposing positions.
You are no Union Man,Downtown Dan!!!
Provide us with your Local #
KELLY YOU REALLY CANT BE A UNION MAN !!!
I like to see Marxist Obama try another trillion dollar stimulus., It will go down again just like it always had. It does do not job. its like band aid that wears off in a short while. do it again Obama and kiss 2012 away.
So how has flooding the market with cheap Illegal Alien labor worked out for the American union members over the past 20 years? It’s worked out really well huh? Please don’t tell me the afl-cio is supporting AMNESTY for the 20-25 million Illegal Aliens squatting here in America under disastrous legislative ideas like Comprehensive Immigration Reform or The Dream Act…..say it ain’t so.
You have it backwards. It is multinations who have gone to countires like Mexico and other South American Countries that have made economic so horendous that workers decided to vote with their feet. Thre free trade agreements have only aggravated the economic situation they seek to flee from.
Illegal immigrants are actually leaving this country in droves!! The latest figure is 1.2 million have returned home and 100s 0f thousands are no longer making the attempt.
You need to get your information from credible sources.
DEMOCRACY NOW
MOTHER JONES
THE NATION
YA , WHAT ABOUT THE 12 MILLION ILLEGALS NOW THAT OBAMA , I C E AND HOMELAND SECURITY THAT CAME OUT ON T V THAT DONT WANT TO ENFORCE THE LAWS TO REMOVE ILLEGALS FROM THE U S , THIS WAS NOT THE SUMMER OF RECOVERY , IT WAS THE SUMMER OF BACK DOOR AMNESTY !
NOW BESIDES THOSE NUMBERS YOU HAVE 23 MILLION AMERICANS ON WELFARE AND TAX PAYERS ARE PAYING FOR , WHILE MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS ARE STAND NEAR BUILDING SUPPLIES ACROSS AMERICA WITING TO BE PICKED UP TO WORK FOR CASH AND NOT [PATING INTO THE SYSTEM AND OVER THE YEARS IT HAS BROOKEN DOWN THE CONDITIONS OF AMERICAINS QUAILITY OF LIKE AND STANDATD OF LIVING , NOW WHAT ABOUT THOSE FACK MY FRIENDS , YOU SHOULD CLEAN OUT THE MIND OF DUST AND TAKE A VERY GOOD LOOK AND GET FOCUSED !
THIS STARTED WITH PAST PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON , KNOW AS SLICK WILLIE , BILL BUILT HIS PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY WITH 100% NONE UNION WORKERS ! WHAT A GOOD MAN HE WAS FOR THE UNIONS ! HE CHANGE THE TAX STRUCTURE AND WAS NOT GOOD FOR WORKING AMERICANS AND 100″S OF MILLIONS WERE DONATED TO HIM FOR HIS PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY !
FROM 1990 TO 2000 32 MILLION FOREIGN BORN WORKERS WITH WORK PERMITS CAME INTO THE UNITED STATES TO TAKE AMERICAN S JOBS ALONG WITH ILLEGALS ALIENS ALSO TAKING AMERICAN JOBS , THATS 46 MILLION PEOPLE IN 10 YEARS , WHERE WAS THE UNION LEADERSHIP WHEN THIS WAS HAPPENING THATS OVER 20 TO 30 YEARS AGO WHEN THIS WAS ALL BEING DONE.
NOW LOOK AT US HALF THE MEMBERS DONT EVEN UNDERSTAND WHATS GOING ON IN POLITICS AND AND WITH ALL OF OBAMAS PROGRAMS , IF YOU SAY ANY THING ABOUT DEMOCRATS , THEY BECOME CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT FOR THEY DONT HAVE THE FACTS OF WHAT YOUR TELLING THEM ! YOU CAN NOT CHANGE THE FACTS TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN EITHER PARTY , SOME OF THESE MEMBERS ARE TOUGHT TO HATE REPUBLICANS AT ANY COST , THAT IS VERY STUPID ! IF YOU ASK THEM WHY , THEY CAN ONLY TELL YOU LITTLE PARTS OF INFOMATION THAT WAS PASSED DOWN TO THEM AND OR WHAT THEY THINK THEY KNOW AND MOST IS NOT FACTS , AND OTHERS KNOW WHATS GOING ON , THE OTHERS , JUST HATE BECAUSE WERE TOLD TO HATE REPUBLICANS , YES YOU TAKE 40 YEARS OF TELL MEMBERS TO HATE REPUBLICANS , SOME OF THE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE UNIONS OR ITS MEMBERSHIP , WHO WOULD ! AND WILL NOT LIKE US FOR WHAT THEY ARE TOLD TO HATE BY THESE MEMBERS , WE HAVE A 2 PARTY SYSTEM FOR YEARS , THE SAME MEMBERS HATE THERE OWN MEMBERS TOO! ASK THEM WHY ITS THE SAME HATE , ITS SAD !
JACK TRUMKA TODAY WITH PRESIDENT AND CEO TODD MC CRACKEN ON STATE OF THE UNION CNN PROGRAM WITH CANDY CROWLEY , JACK AND TOOD WHEN ASKED BY CANDY CROWLEY WHAT WENT WRONG WITH THE JOB STIMULUS THAT OBAMA AND PELOSI AND RIED MADE , THEY SAID OBAMA MADE A MAJOR MISTAKE BY NOT STARTING WITH JOB CREATING JAN 2O TH WHEN HA HAD TAKEN OFFICE AND HELPING SMALL BUISNESS WITH JOB CREATION AND 2 YEARS LATER AFTER 6.7 TRILLION IT WAS A FAILURE , MOST OF THE STIMULUS WENT ABOUT 97% WENT TO GOVERMENT JOBS AND OTHER AREAS THAT DID NOT HELP WORKING PEOPLE OF AMERICA LOSING HOMES AND CREATING JOBS FOR AMERICANS .
IT DOES NOT , ITS A COVER UP FROM THE CLINTON DAYS , STARTING WITH NAFTA AND RIGHT OFF THE START LOSING 5 MILLION AMERICAN JOBS , THEN ILLEGALS INTO THE COUNTRY WITH TAKING AMERICAN JOBS , THE DRUG TRADE , FOREIGN BORN WORKERS WITH WORK PERMITS TAKING AMERICAN JOBS AND ITS BEEN GOING ON FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS SENDING JOBS OVER SEAS , THE CONGRESS COMMITTEES AND THE SENATE COMMITTEES IS WHERE THIS ALL LIES LIFE TIME POLITICIANS THAT BECOME TO TWISTED WITH LOBBYIST ND SWEET HEART DEALS , ITS CALLED CORRUPTION , JUST LOOK AT SOME OF THEM, THERE WORTH MULTI MILLIONS , WITH PENSIONS AND HEALTH PLANS FOR LIFE , HEY DONT GET ME WRONG THERE ARE VERY HONEST AND HONORABLE CONGRESS PERSON AND SENATORS , BUT ITS A FIGHT EVER DAY FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT AND THATS WHAT THEY ARE AGAINTS !
Facist Beck Limbaugh, Leven and the rest of the right-wing corporate loud mouths have a vocal, uneducated following in this country. They are ANTI-UNION, ANTI-MIDDLE CLASS AND ANTI-AMERICAN.
What we need is a JOBS WORKS PROGRAM SMILAR TO THE WPA OR CCC’S FROM FDR’S ADMIN.
With all the kool-aid drunk on this site it’s no wonder that the brain-washed corporate stooges like sweartogod and downtown dave flap their misinformed traps and stab the working man in the heart.
The trouble really started with Reagan and hasn’t stoped since. WE NEED A SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT! Not this corrupt, lying bunch of bastards in there now. Kick the Republicans to kingdom come, boot out the corrupt Democrats…..but LEAVE BERNIE SANDERS.
NOW THERE IS A TRUE PATRIOT FOR THE GOOD OLE USA FIGHTING FOR THE WORKER AND THEIR FAMILIES.
What a ignorant comment. You should listen better. Rush and those taik show hosts are not anti union. they are anti union leader. The people running the unions are like the politicians in Washington. They are just a appendage of the democratic party. They use rhetoric like all left wingers do. Traitor,greedy,and etc. If they were a little smarter they could have be neutral in regards to politics. Once you favor one party you get screwed when they lose. You are going to get screwed again in Nov. This Obama should never have been president. He reminds me of the Manchurian candidate. Flash a card in front of him and he goes nuts.
WELL I CAN SEE YOUR VERY FRUSTRATED WITH OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS ALONG WITH CONGRESS AND THE U S SENATE I BET YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA ! WELL YOU GOT WHAT YOU VOTED FOR A UNKNOWN , A PROGRESSIVE , A MARXISM PERSON WHO IS TAKING YOUR TAX DOLLARS AND GIVING IT TO ILLEGALS AND 23 MILLION ILLEGALS FOR THERE NEEDS , THERE BETTER OFF THEN YOU NOW !
YOU SHOULD DIVERT YOU ENERGY IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND NOT JUST VENT IT , YOU ARE BLINDED AND NOT SEEING THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND YOUR FITTING YOUR SELF IN THE WAY YOUR LOOKING AT THINGS , STAND BACK AND SEE THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES , YOUR LOST IN THEM RIGHT NOW ,, YOUR ANSWER FOR LIBERTY IS VOTE CORRUPTION OUT OF OFFICE THIS FALL ! WE ALWAYS HAVE WORK WHEN REPUBLICANS ARE IN OFFICE , BUT SO MANY SMART PEOLE HERE NOW HAD ALL THE ANSERS AND NOW THEY HAVE NO JOBS , AFTER 6.7 TRILLION SPENT , THATS NOT SMART AT ALL AMERICANS !
It is high time that our beloved President and “his” congress commit the money necessary to fund a “massive” program of upgrading our highways, bridges, trains and other very important public works projects.
The deficit isn’t as high on people’s agenda as the media tries to make it out to be. I know it is very important, but the Democrats have always overcome that problem once we got things back on track after the republicans tried to pour us down the drain so many times.
Our deficit at this time is barely more than the Iraq war cost us. We were like a fighter plane that had been hit and was spiraling down out of control heading to the ground. And some very hard working people were able to pull the plane up just in time and they have worked very hard to do it, even though the republican in the back seat kept trying to push the stick forward.
Let the president and his team get some repairs done and before long he will have the plane climbing once again. I sure hope all the hype on TV about the Dems being in trouble this November is just that.
You have any idea how long that would take? The way the government works it will take years just to get started on these projects. I am all for it but it will take years before anything happens. I think I know a way. Pretend we just got attacked by some enemy and we need to moblise against this enemy immediately. We only act in this country under stress. I hope you know most of the big corporations will handle these projects. They will make money. Try not to hold that against them.
There should be NO MORE RECESSES BY CONGRESS UNTIL ALL AMERICANS ARE WORKING AND EARNING A LIVING WAGE AND THEY ARE FREE TO JOIN OR FORM UNIONS!!!
YOU ARE 100% RIGHT , AND ALL LBBYIST SHOULD BE OUTLAWED IN AMERICA AND THEN CONGRESS AND THE U S SENATE WOULD WORK FOR THE AMERICANS AND THEN WE SHOULD CHANGE THE ELECTION LAWS ABOUT WHO ELECTIONS SHOULD BE RUN IN AMERICA AND MADE BY AMERICANS AND NOT CONGRESS OR COMMITTEES !
50 MILLION AMERICANS OUT OF WORK AS OF TODATE !
WHERE ARE THE JOBS , WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE MONEY ITS ALL GONE ! WHO GOT IT ? WHERE WAS THE ACCOUNTABILITY , THE TRANSPARENCY AND THE HONESTY ?
WHY DO THE KEEP BLAMING GEORGE BUSH HES BEEN GONE FOR 2 YEARS ! THE CONGRESS CONTROLED CONGRESS AND THE U S SENATE 2 YEARS BEFORE BUSH GOT OUT OF OFFICE ! THEY WERE CALLING MOST OF THE SHORTS , WHO CREATED THE BAD ECONOMY THE DEMOCARTS , CONGRESS AND THE SENATE THAT WAS TOTALLY CONTROLED BY THEM ! WHO SHOULD THEY BLAME THEM SELFS 100% GREED AND LOBBYIST AND LOTS OF CORRUPTION AND SPECIAL INTERSET , WELL 4 YEARS AND NO JOBS ! WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU AMERICANS ! CAN ANY ONE DO MATH HERE ?
WE HAVE 50 MILLION AMERICANS OUT OF WORK AND 2 YEARS THEY CAN ONLY CREATE GOVERNMENT JOBS FOR ALL THE FAILED PROGRAMS BY OBAMA , THE LAST 4 MONTHS THE CENSUS WORKERS OF ACORN WERE LAID OFF THATS WHERE THE HIGH UN-EMPLOYMENT FIGS ARE COMING FROM .
WE NEED TO CREATE 250,000 JOBS A MONTH EACH MONTH FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS TO MAKE THIS SYSTEM START TO WORK , BUT THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN , WE NEED TO RE MOVE ALL ILLEGALS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND STOP IMMIGRATION . WE ARE TAKING IN TO AMERICA 125,000 EACH MONTH TO TAKE AMERICA JOBS , 1.5 MILLION A YEAR , NOW ITS ABOUT 2.5 MILLION IN OBAMAS TERM , NO ONE TAKS ABOUT THAT , WHY NO JOBS DO THE MATH AMERICANS AND THE MATH TO YOUR NEW 3.8 TRILLION DOLLARS THIS YEAR , WORKING FOLKS ARE GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THE 23 MILLION ON WELFARE AND THE REST OF THE GIVE AWAY PROGRAMS !
WHAT WE HAVE IN AMERICA AND ITS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FOR AMERICANS IS THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY NOW IN CONTROL, OBAMA , PEOLSI AND RIED AND BARNY FRANK , TODD AND THE REST OF THE FREAK SHOW GROUP , THERE THE GIVE AWAY PARTY , THEY GO AGAINTS ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAWS , ADDRESS PROBLEMS THAT ARE IN THE BEST INTEREST FOR WORKING AMERICANS , FORCING HEALTH CARE ON AMERICANS WHICH IS UN-CONSTITUTIONAL , THEY HAVE MADE WASHINGTON POLITICS LIKE A PESTHOLE!
AMERICA WAS BUILT ON CHRISTIAN FAITH AND THE FOUNDING FATHER BUILT THE CONSTITUTION ALONG WITHN THERE FAITH ,
THE MOSLUMS NOW ARE SAYING THEY CANT BE AMERICAN AND BE MOSLUM IN AMERICA AND THATS COMING FROM THERE HOME LAND MOSLUM IS NOT CHRISTIAN , THATS WHAT WASHINGTON PLOTICS ARE MISSING IN THERE DEBATES AND WHEN THEY TALK ON T V AND GIVE LOTS OF TALK AND LOTS OF BULL CRAPS ABOUT THIS ISSUES , THEY SHOULD BE TOLD THE DOOR SWINGS BOTH WAYS AND IF THEY CANT BECOME AMERICANS AND WANT TO USE TERRORSIT TACTICS ON US THERE DAY HAS ENDED , KITS THAT SIMPLE , THIS PROGRESSIVE PARTY BULL IS KILLING AMERICA JOBS AND LOSS OF JOBS OVER SEAS AND IMMIGRATION TAKING AMERICA JOBS AND ILLEGALS COSTING BILLIONS OF DALLARS OF TAX PAYERS MONEY AND NO JOBS FOR UNIONS OR AMERICANS ITS TIME FOR THIS BULL GAME TO GO AND THE SMAE NOTE TO THE UNION LEADERS AND IT TIME FOR THEM TO GET OUT OF BED WITH THIS POLITICAL PART !
Here are some facts for you dumbass!!
PERSONS OBTAINING LEGAL PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS: FISCAL YEARS 2000 TO 2008
2000 = 841,002 2001 = 1,058,902 2002 = 1,059,356 2003 =703,543 2004 = 957,883 2005 = 1,122,257 2006 = 1,122,257 2007 = 1,052, 415 2008 = 1,107,126
How did that other dumbass GWB WORKOUT FOR YA???
These Reaganites have all of ‘their’ opinions laid our for them by Faux News. They are not worth debating. The working class will always somehow produce a few offspring who end up willing to torture, and kill for the rich for a few silver coins, or a pat on the back from the man. Their excitement level indicates that we are in for a fight. They complain about “Forcing health care on Americans” like health care itself is bad. They call universities ‘educational gulags’, and fight to prevent science and sex education for our teenagers, as a stepping stone to ending all public education, which they oppose and fear. The one ‘American’ value they cherise is complete ignorance. Even the leaders they palpitate for are bordeline illiterates.
I attended 11 universities in 3 countries. Did they all brainwash me? They hate Muslims, probably because they brought universities and libraries and Mathematics to Europe, all of which they also hate, including Europe. If they could stop knowing everything long enough to learn something, we would all be better off. Stop fighting to close libraries and burn books, and open up a book instead. Read. Talk with people from different backgrounds. Travel. Open up your mind, and you might discover that our diverse human race actually still has a lot of potential. Evolve.