Comments on: 12 reasons the job market is worse than you think

By: Karen Burnette

Karen Burnette — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:13:29 +0000

Lost Soul,HELP I have been on my job for 5yrs.On 1/08/10 I went to work as always with my smileing face,Ready to jump in and work my depts.The company is know as Freds in the big town of Quincy Fl.The sweat blood an tears i put into my job was meant for nothing.the big shots that went home to there prime rib had come an went.left the word i had been let go.IT goes deep about my app.that i filled out 11/10/2005 wow!They always love me when iwas going an doing by the way iam now 54yrs old WOW.With no job ,Taken care of my 80yr old MoM. they dont even know how hard an long i have come in my life.from long long ago of recovery due they care.please can anyone HELP! My custermers my life of 5yrs my poor mother my confussed mind.my# is 850/875-1685

By: James Kimani

James Kimani — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:52:03 +0000

When a country is fast losing its foundational moral values the way the US has been in the last couple years it is easy to blame Obama, Bush and whoever else is in the Whitehouse at any one time. The truth of the matter is that the US is for the first time facing an unprecedented challenge in its global economic supremacy and has not yet come up with a strategy to navigate. The ominous future facing the dollar as a global reserve currency is only one example of what is happening. US citizens have today become conspicuous consumers too much attached to materialism and an impatient culture that does not respect hard work and patience, like our grandpas did. Might be another “1939 lesson” all over again, its truly astounding. Lets look deeper into our own “selves” before blaming the leadership. After all, a country’s leadership is basically a reflection of its society or ain’t it?

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:42:27 +0000

Liberal fascists hate, hate, hate small businesses, because SBs compete with their corporatist benefactors, and they are harder for totalitarian government to control. The Stalinist reference is very apt, because that is exactly what Obama is doing.

By: John S

John S — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:51:16 +0000

“Oh yeah, like Bush and the Republicans created SUCH a great economy… Can’t wait to go back to that!”

Oh, I don’t know, I’d trade 2004 for what’s in store for us in 2010. The Dems have the budget deficit up to $200 billion a MONTH. Obama’s Treasury dept. is printing as much as $15 billion a DAY. We won’t be able to do that forever. Get ready for the $40,000 cup of coffee.

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:42:45 +0000

You know it’s funny J you rip on Cons yet every time anyone points out what a failure your messiah is, you people knee-jerk exactly the same way, hypocritical much?

So come on with one of the usual oh so intelligent “it’s all Bush’s fault” rants that the left usually provides us.

By: J.

J. — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:28:37 +0000

Andrew P. and I don’t like Obama one bit either, but you are both morons. You know damned well card check isn’t going to pass and Obamacare is a dead giveaway to insurance companies.

Why don’t you anti-intellectual, pseudo-conservative frauds try and think critically instead of just yelling “socialism” at the drop of a hat?

By: bill

bill — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:14:22 +0000

This is ridiculous…Rosenberg said the S&P 500 would be at 600 by October 2008,,,,Goldman has been very wrong,,,
Shadow Stats has some serious flaws to its methodology…
I can point to three things thta say better job growth,,,
temporary jobs,growth in cyclical service sectoe employment and the 12 month moving average of the ratio of non farms to jobless claims has turned up….methinks

Mr, Pethokoukis has an agenda over analysis….

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:03:26 +0000

The bullet points of your analysis sketch a too negative an economic narrative for the Obama WH to swallow or spin. This would explain the rush to claim and wax this “reversion to the mean” as a successful tale of stimulus victory.

By: gotthardbahn

gotthardbahn — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:32:50 +0000

Mea culpa. It’s not Goldman Sachs who provided that absurdly bearish analysis of the American economy, but ‘bond guru’ David Goldman. My error, but my point still stands. Besides, it isn’t generally recognized that bond traders want EVERYBODY out of a job, as bad economic news and hard economic times are great for bond prices; the worse the economy, the bigger the rally in bond prices. This guy is just talking his position, like any salesman. Treat it accordingly.

By: gotthardbahn

gotthardbahn — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:17:38 +0000

Everybody stand back and take a deep breath, PLEASE! According to this thread and Goldman Sachs’ analysis, the American economy, created in 1776 and which has survived the War of 1812 and Andrew Jackson and the Civil War and the robber barons and John D. Rockefeller’ trusts and J.P. Morgan and the panic of 1907 and the First World War and the Great Depression and the Second World War and the Cold War has, for some reason, died in the past two years because credit was tightened. HUH? Goldman Sachs’ analysis, in my humble opinion, is just a little over-the-top. Weren’t these guys a vampire squid sucking the life out of everything? According to posters on this site? And now they are the undisputed experts on the American economy, whose every word must be listened to? What rubbish. What’s wrong with America these days? Give your heads a shake and move on from this gloom-dooming. The rest of the free world is waiting for you!