Comments on: The First Draft: Jobs (not), Jobs (not), Jobs (not)

By: Rayson Byron

Rayson Byron — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:22:42 +0000

It would help if George Bush would go on TV and apologize for ingnoring the impending economic crisis. Bush ignored the impacts of 9/11, and two hurricanes, and missed the opportunity to mitigate this economic downturn.Bush deliberately ignored this impending economy destroying sunami in his last two years. Bush should either aplogize, or proclaim that he intentionally sought to facilitate this downturn.Bush shouldn;’t just hide in the shadows, pretending to be infantile–we know better.

By: Dennis MacLaren

Dennis MacLaren — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:49:11 +0000

I didn’t ask to get laid off. I’m looking for work for over a year now. I’ll wash dishes or sweep floors. Unemployment is going to help pay my rent. So if you have some work for me I’ll stop taking money from the war on what ever it is this week or day

By: Lim Boon Chuan

Lim Boon Chuan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:46:51 +0000

The economy may never be the same again even after it “recovered”. Hopefully the jobless rates will be lowered soon, but not likely. Isn’t really Obama’s fault, there is little he can do and he had done them…..

By: Max Ernst

Max Ernst — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:21:20 +0000

Hey Right-wing Loonies,Notice what the article says. The last time unemployment was this bad was 1983. Who was president then? Reagan. How many years had he been president by then?At least under Obama the general economic numbers are trending up, even if job loss has continued for the short term as predicted repeatedly by the White House and economists.Things might have been better if Hank Paulson and Congress (both Dems and Repubs) would’ve forced the banks to use some of their bailout to extend credit to individuals and businesses, but as usual, the Bush administration screwed up badly.All of you who claim we’re heading straight towards socialism and think any White House push a button and change long term problems in the economy whenever they choose should (1) actually study economics (2) study up on global history — we’re very, very, very far away from anything resembling socialism, even with healthcare and (3) try reading multiple international news outlets rather than just relying on conservative radio and Fox.As it is, spouting off about socialism makes you sound scared sh*tless about something you don’t seem to understand.

By: Grifo

Grifo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:33:39 +0000

The trouble with corporate socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money.Over the last ten years, the gap between the top 1% and the bottom 99% grew to historic new levels. Only this time, when the inevitable tipping point was reached, the top 1% made sure their bets were covered and the bottom 99% ate the looses, not the 1% at the top. So now we have idiots waving signs in front of the Capitol and shouting “no to socialism”, led by the very people who brought them this disaster. Calling these people sheep is a compliment. They are cattle.

By: don

don — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:10:56 +0000

Trouble with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money.We hit that point a long time ago and it hasn’t slowed washington down in the least.every other generation has tried to make sure that their kids never had it as bad as they did. This generation seems to want their kids to have it worse then they did.After all it’s the jkids that are going to be paying for all this.

By: brian lee

brian lee — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:52:07 +0000

there is the premise that if you repeat something often enough eventually it will be believed!but the only people that are believing the spin are the surrogates.The boat is going over the falls guys with the record unemployment since Carter.So eric if the delay in lower job numbers is not into effect in the next year then the boat sinks so bail out!Unfortunately getplaning goes down with the boat!completely brainwashed.

By: TC

TC — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:27:31 +0000

Oh, Eric finally showed up after embarrassing losses on Tuesday…California Living. That’s the sentiment of a majority in this country who do not believe in the policies being forced on us by the current bunch in power.What strikes me is that the president took credit for numbers suggesting we are coming out of this recession due to the policies put in place, but blames the previoius administration when things don’t work out so well.Well the economy isn’t exactly coming out of anything, so he can’t have it both ways. Either it is his economy or it isn’t.He campaigned hard in Virginia and NJ blaming Bush for the problems in those states. Well, his guys were handed knock out punches when he used those arguments. There were even campaign signs in NJ that said “OBAMA CORZINE”. The point here is that people are sick and tired of his overused blame the other guy BS.

By: California Living

California Living — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:24:00 +0000

Eric H…. the reason a lot of those are laid off and still can’t find work is THEY ARE NOT TRAINED/EDUCATED to do anything! I am a recruiter in the IT space and trust me, there a many $50-120K jobs out there going unfilled.Why? My opinion is because Socialistic/Liberal handouts make folks complacent with not working or not striving to learn and get higher skilled jobs. Why put the effort in going to school get a 50 hr. per week job when you can sit at home and get free handouts?

By: Eric H

Eric H — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:33:18 +0000

…and so we hear from usual suspect #1.Brian, jobs are always the last thing to recover from a recession.I still have yet to see these sweeping socialist reforms that you speak of and I don’t believe that they are coming at all so chill, relax and enjoy your Cali sunshine.