Georgia unemployment rate rises to 10.1 percent in July

but i thought it was down to 8% last month… lol…. its all a scam. its 15-18% in reality. but nobody will ever publish anything that comes close to the truth.

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NO NO NO….the stimulus is working. Obama is doing a wonderful job.

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I’m working on a new construction site in Brookhaven, a live, work and play development. The illegals working on that site out number the Americans working there by about two to one

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Democrats can solve all of our problems. Why should I have to be concerned about this. The government should be taking care of me.

Republican can not help us. They will expect us to get jobs and support ourselves.

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More jobs that lazy Americans don’t want:

PALMYRA, Pa. — Hundreds of foreign students, waving their fists and shouting defiantly in many languages, walked off their jobs on Wednesday at a plant here that packs Hershey’s chocolates, saying a summer program that was supposed to be a cultural exchange had instead turned them into underpaid labor.

In a way, they did. About 400 foreign students were put to work lifting heavy boxes and packing Reese’s candies, Kit-Kats and Almond Joys on a fast-moving production line, many of them on a night shift. After paycheck deductions for fees associated with the program and for their rent, students said at a rally in front of the huge packing plant that many of them were not earning nearly enough to recover what they had spent in their home countries to obtain their visas.

Their experience of American society has been very different from what they expected.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/us/18immig.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

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Bush should really be in prison for destroying the country. Instead of doing anything for this country, he was fighting was against countries that had nothing to do with 9/11, given a blank check by the Republicans. And he watched and did nothing as the housing and banking industries collapsed. And somehow this is Obama’s fault? I guess the stupid people can keep drinking the FOX News Kool Aid and listen to the right wing extremists on WSB. And then of course you have the Tea Party extremists hijacking the future of this country. No spending of any kind. Government is evil. The Tea Party is leading the future of this country right off a cliff. I wish they would take all Republicans with them.

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A Republican state, with a Republican governor. We should be in high cotton, right? Right?

Much easier to just blame Washington, though.

But what the heck – Georgia will continue to vote for the Republican Tea Party – and we’ll continue to be at the bottom of the barrel in everything that matters.

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Oh yeah … I almost forgotted.

I got’s me a plan … yep that’s right!
I can’t release it now ’cause it’s super top secret!
It gonna make y’all some jobs…
it’s comin, I swear .. I was thinking ’bout it yesterday … I’m a waitin ’cause y’all don’t need jobs now …
Love Y’all!

Think Now is Scary!
Vote For Barry 2012

(I made that up myself!)

Your Comrad,

Barry O’

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I think Bush’s whole plan was to destroy the economy and to funnel all the money to his rich buddies at Halliburton and Exxon Mobil and then hope that everyone blamed Obama. The problem was that the economy nosedived under Bush’s watch but somehow all the stupid people out there have such short attention spans that they seem to forget that. Somehow they seem to forget that under Bush, gas prices went from $1.50 a gallon to 4 bucks a gallon yet everyone seems to blame Obama for gas prices, because the right wing media that controls the country tells everyone to blame Obama. I think the right wing media was formulating a plan years ago to blame Obama for every disaster that happened under Bush.

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Class War Fare… Hate the Fat Cats… tax the hell out of them… join a Union….. lets close the new Boeing plant in S.C… they voted out the Unions ??!! my plan…. get a gov’t job….

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It’s a total lack of confidence…. they looked at my resume !!! Communist thesis paper in college…. I didn’t have any job history.., but look at my ACORN record… hate America preacher was a big part of my life…. but I got elected !! now I’m running again… come to my fund raiser at the Ritz Carleton… it’s only $20,000 a plate.. I love the fat cats if they’re democrats !!

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If anything, Obama is just too nice a guy to fight these right wing and Tea Party extremists, who are intent on bringing down his presidency and destroying the country. I wish he would put up more of a fight but clearly he doesn’t have the stomach to fight these losers. I’m floored that anyone would be stupid enough to support a party like the Tea Party that is intent on bringing down and destroying the entire country. What a great plan they have. Let’s not spend anymore money. That’ll get the country moving again. That’ll create jobs. Shame on all the Republican nominees who are falling in line right behind the Tea Party extremists.

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Why is it that Texas is gaining jobs? Even high tax California has gained over 135,000 jobs this year.

Whats the problem Georgia?

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Good thing it’s not their fault…just keep cutting away at infrastructure and education and lowering taxes! Yeah, that’s the ticket!

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This is a republican state. The layoffs were in government state and local agencies. We talking teachers, policemen, firefighters, the court system. This has nothing to do with Washington. It has all to do with Republicans not wanting to pay the bills in hardtimes, by raising taxes. They would rather do without those services. Now the Georgia Courts are backed up with cases, but there aren’t enough administrative judges, clerks to process paperwork. Groegians get what thay voted for.
The same in college sports. The money from the state has supporting education has been cut not to the bone, but through the bone. that’s why college football is about to get crazy, all these states cutting money and the schools trying to make it up with TV and merchandising contracts from sports.
This has nothing to do with President Obama, this is all Governor Deal. We got a Bum Deal when he was elected.

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Yeah, things were really crappy when Bush was president…..4.6 unemployment & $1.86 for a gallon of gas

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Soon I will release my plan for jobs.
First, I have to write it.

Hope and Change 2012.

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Lets see folks we have a Republican control state from the governor to the state congress they hold ever important office in the state we have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation and since they know they are doing a really bad job rather than admit they can’t do it and quit the blame it on Washington,10 1 unemployment here lets look at other state north Dakota , 4.1 percent unemployment lowest in the nation? why you might say we cause its not run by republicans and they know how to work for the people there funny they have a democratic Governor and the state house and senate is controlled by democrats so yo decided 10.1 or 4.1 2012 lets change GA back to a blue moderate state and watch real jobs get created just a false promise and tax your tax money and get nothing for it think i am making this up go look for-yourselves

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To: “Down and Out” You’re statement is just racist.

The truth is that when blacks came to power in these cities, whites refused to work to keep the city prosperious. The withes took their money and went to private schools, moved to the Suburbs and they continuously vote to starve those cites of the money they need to do the basic jobs of cleaning, policing, firefighting, educating, and growing. It the old adage of if I ain’t in charge I’m not going to work with you. Does that sound famililar, maybe a little Tea Partyish… It all the same, just different names, but same attitudes. Conservative Whites with an my way of the highway mentality.

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Truth @ 7:47,

Get a clue.

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The same people telling us that austerity measures will cure a recession are the same people telling us that the earth is only ten thousand years old and that people and dinasours coexisted.

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By the way, for the record, Pres. Bush had zero net job growth in eight years after the largest multiple tax cuts in modern times. The promise then was, “let’s give back the surplus to the Job Creators.” I’d like to know two things, do you have a surplus now? And, do you see all those jobs. I guess it wasn’t such a great idea. The Dems had pledged to use that surplus to fully fund SS and Medicare for future generations, now the Republicans want to do away with both because there isn’t enough money in ‘their’ budget for either.

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Glad you could join us Nancy Pelosi, your liberal congressional district in San Fransisco is booming, in fact your district outperforms all the Republican districts in Georgia, COMBINED!!!

Nancy, why are you hogging all the good paying jobs?

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I am a firm believer that this joke of a President has downgraded the office which he holds. I didn’t vote for the fool, and he has turned us into a nation of government dependent bed wetters. The food stamp President blames the evil rich folks, but who else is paying for the 50% of Americans that don’t pay taxes ? I Hope there is enough Change to put gas in my car !! The community organizer is the WORST President we have ever had, but keep blaming Bush. The tree hugging left controled Congress from 2006 on, notice our dramitic increase in spending from then till now. Just keep printing money Obama, it will get better !!!!(yeah right). The people who voted for him couldn’t name one thing he had done while in office,just that he was black. Sad, that we have fallen so far, so fast. Maybe I’ll just kick back and let the government take care of me, seems to work for half the country. The Plantation mentality which the left seems to subscribe to seems to work. Hope and Change, What a joke !!! Obama is nothing but a used car salesman.

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If all those Kia Workers in that Kia Plant that Georgia taxpayers built for them actually lived in Georgia and not in Alabama, the unemployment figures would be better —- but, they choose to live in Alabama!!! And, Kia looks for them, not for Georgians, to work!!!

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“24,500 jobs lost in government and education, business services lost 2,200, while construction lost 1,800. Overall, the number of jobs declined seven-tenths of a percentage point from a year ago.

On the positive side, manufacturing gained 1,400 jobs — the first July increase in manufacturing in 18 years, the labor department said.”

Meanwhile somewhere in the alternate universe the Tea Party says keep cutting and watch jobs magically appear.

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Of course the real unemployment is more like 20%. There are thousands that have become stay-at-home parents because once you’re out of a job in this country there is a 50% chance you;ll never work again (based on previous stories and my real live experience). I HAD nearly 20 yrs experience in IT. Down-sized and was forced to take a 100% commission job in mortgage financing just oto pay the bills. That company closed – and because I was commission, was not eligible for unemployment. Hard to pay for college with no income. 2 yrs later, still unemployed, broke, and can’t even get a call back for a bronze-level Work-Ready job. Sure could have used some of that billion dollars that BofA received – or some of that new sidewalk-where-nobody-lives construction money. That you Mr President for your misguided stimulus spending….

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Ga unem goes along with rampant crime, poor education by crooked leaders(APS) high existing poverty of young (ajc8/17 570,000 ) one of worst overbuilt housing in nation, proliferation of huge amounts of uneducated blacks and illegal aliens many on food stamps and 2nd and 3rd generation
permanent welfare class. Contrast these dismal facts with the states with best /lowest unemployment They do not have all of the above facts pulling them down.!!!!

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Again, why is Texas adding jobs? Why is high tax california adding jobs?

Why is Georgia failing so bad.

Does Obama like California and Texas, but hate Georgia?

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Let’s Be Reasonable: “Meanwhile somewhere in the alternate universe the Tea Party says keep cutting and watch jobs magically appear.

OK, LBR, and what EXACTLY has your (half-irish) President done to create jobs? I know he spent $3B on something, but it certainly wasn’t job creation. I know he flew air force 1 to NYC for a dinner and broadway show one night and currently is touring farm country in a new $1M bus, like that creates any jobs. He’s been to China and spends a lot of time in MArtha’s Vineyard playing golf. He recently toured Ireland (…finally disclosed his white side…) and rang up a few environmental fines in the process.

It would appear to me that all he has done is spend tax dollars to travel the world.

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@Kanarstead.
When W left the Texas governor’s job, oil was $25 a barrel.
It got up to $147 a barrel and seldom has been below $80/barrel.
The states that have oil are doing better than those that are without.
Also new technology has helped Texas get production from old wells too.
California has really had to cut government services so they do not sound like they are any better off than Georgia. They have huge budget fights every year.

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Georgia’s housing industry was crushed by the housing bubble.
We have too much supply and not nearly enough jobs to provide buyers.
Lots of jobs in housing wiped out that will be very slow to come back.
Foreclosures depress prices too.
Obama is not the answer but the housing bubble was on W’s watch.
Oil bubble too.

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Another Republican seems to have a lot of excuses.

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Fellow independent.
HD had a slump where the new stores of Lowes were getting the best of them.
HD got a new CEO (after crummy Nardeli), new stores and better locations and now are getting the best of Lowes.
I thought it was Steve Wynn who knocked Obama.
Langone did too but not as dramatically as Wynn.

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Comrade Obama is a nice guy but an Idiot who is a clueless “buffoon” when it comes to CREATING jobs and LEADERSHIP. Marxism will not work in America.

Comrade Barak Obama is the most UNQUALIFIED President in the History of the United States.

Are we really surprised?

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I agree with Warren Buffet, the super rich have been pampered too long. I admire him for stepping up & saying they, including himself, could bare to pay more tax. He is absolutely correct about them being able to take the burden off of the poor & us middle income tax payers. He openly said he paid 17%-18% on his taxable income, while I paid 26%. Stop blaming the president when it’s your congress persons fault (ours too for voting them in). Everyone knows George, & you who voted for him, did this to us.

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@Kanarstead.
I am not a Republican or Democrat though I have been both at one time.
Too much group thinking in both of them for me.

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Just a side note on taxing the super-rich. Theu are the people investing in triple-tax-free bonds that are building your highways and sewer systems,

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Oh yeah … I almost forgotted.

I got’s me a plan … yep that’s right!
I can’t release it now ’cause it’s super top secret!
It gonna make y’all some jobs…
it’s comin, I swear .. I was thinking ’bout it yesterday in the back of my super bus .. y’all should see it, it’s amazin’, i hear it cost like a trillion dollars or somethin’ can you believe it.. … I’m a waitin ’cause y’all don’t need jobs now …

Love Y’all!

Think Now is Scary!
Vote For Barry 2012

(I made that up myself!)

Your Comrad,

Barry O’

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Shrink the size of Federal & State Government and leave the money in local communities. Why? I know better how to handle my finances than someone else. Also, I can communicate with my local leaders at breakfast, lunch, dinner, ballgame, church, etc. This way the leaders can hear the feedback and have skin in the game.

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The reality is that Obama has worked for everything that is or would have been good for middle class Americans. And, I mean everything.

Those that cannot clearly see this are either simply dumb or have been brain washed by the evil machine (FOXnews, republicans, tea party).

Yeah, Yeah…. Arnold S. makes $5 million a year. Let’s NOT tax him. He shouldn’t pay his share of taxes. Let’s just tax the middle class. Yeah, the middle class. The rich need their money. Leave them alone.

Let the middle class get poorer and poorer. Yeah. Then, let’s take away any of those evil federal programs. When the middle class lose their jobs, they don’t need unemployment, or such. The old don’t need social security or medicare/medicaid. All of this is just government “waste”. After all, the most wealthy don’t need this stuff, so why does anyone else?

Also, let’s just give corporations anything they want. In fact, in Georgia, let’s pay THEM to come here. Yeah. Let’s use our tax dollars to pay the corporations. That sounds like a plan. Maybe we can hope that they will hire a hundred or so people.

The republicans are certainly something else!

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So… a slightly lower rate of unemployment in Texas is Gov. Perry’s “Texas miracle,” while higher unemployment in Georgia is Washington’s fault?

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I love that Warren Buffett – yes, the billionaire investment dude – admitted that he paid a lower tax rate than some of his employees that make under $50,000 a year. Finally, an honest man.

He also said that the rich SHOULD be paying their fair share of taxes instead of continuing this CRAZY tax cut they enjoy from the Bush era.

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What does the Left think of Obama’s continuing W’s war in Afghanistan with little improvement in results?

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@Jean.
I agree.
Both Texas presidents, LBJ and W, have been very dumb war presidents. (bad strategies)
How can a war end when the enemy just escapes across the border as we allowed in Vietnam and Afghanistan? In both wars, they can regroup and come back for more forever.
I do not want another Texan with a bogus economic miracle mostly die to the high price of oil.

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Truth – Obviously you have been brain washed by the evil machine. That is one of their special ‘tag line’ sayings that they repeat so often that you seem to have bought in to it.

The wealthy do not create jobs. It has been proven that the wealthy hold on to their money. Do you really think that even Warren Buffett walks around with magic dust and sprinkles it here and there and suddenly “pop” a job appears???? If not Warren, then maybe you think that Arnold does it? Give me a break!!

The economy itself creates jobs. It is a cycle that either spirals up or down. Get some education from a reliable source and stop watching FOXnews!

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Reality, your politics are blinding you and making you as ignorant as a “fox news” watcher. (That comment alone means you’re an Obama lover).

Your comment “Also, let’s just give corporations anything they want. In fact, in Georgia, let’s pay THEM to come here. Yeah. Let’s use our tax dollars to pay the corporations.” just shows how ignorant you really are when it comes to economics, employment and taxes. Are you a CRCT cheater??

When GA begs a company to build a manufacturing plant here, it is so that GA residents have a place to work. JOBS!!! That money is then spent on groceries, housing, movie tickets, etc. All that generates TAX dollars for the state and community.

But let’s incorporate your commie, leftist motivated policy of taxing corporations. Do you honestly think corporations will just blindly pay those taxes? NO! They will lay off workers and raise the price of their products to cover the cost. They will move to a lower tax state == unemployment. It just means higher prices and higher unemployment.

It’s called ECON-101. Turn off the Obama love and think for yourself. Time for you to go back to kindergarten.

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Reality:
I actually watch MSNBC because I like to study how you think. I actually find MSNBC very amusing.

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Truth – We have given the rich this tax cut for many years now. If, as you seem to think, the rich create jobs, why hasn’t the unemployment gone down? Can’t you see that you, the republicans, FOXnews, etc. are wrong?

And, corporations are CURRENTLY enjoying record PROFITS. However, the chose to hold on to this money and not re-invest it (which is the logical thing to do, right?). Instead, they are paying record salaries to their top managment.

If they were to re-invest it, that WOULD create jobs and help to expand the economy.

Instead, the Board of Directors are voting to given themselves bonuses and pay raises. And remember, they aren’t paying their far taxes on this money either.

Can’t you see that this is a re-distribution of wealth from the middle class to the most wealthy?

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Damn that Obama and Washington! Here we are with outstanding Republican Leadership and our unemployment rate is worse than it has been in 10 years or for those that can count since our outstanding Republicans took control from those pesky Dems. Of course these problems have nothing to do with…

-Our transportation woes and absolutely no plan to address them
-Leading the nation in banking failures
-No coherent water supply strategy for the main employment center of the state
-Our pitiful educational standing and no plan to address that either
-Drastic decreases in employment in education and other governmental functions so we can keep up the tax cutting for the “job creators”
-No plan what so ever to increase the skills of our workforce

Nah none of that matters at all…

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Very well put Reality @ 8:45.

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8:54.

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he’s only a leader if we choose to follow the son-of-a-bitch.

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An open idea for all those who think Washing know better how to handle your money than you do…. next year, when your IRS payment is due, send them some extra. Simple. No extra paperwork. No new 3,000 pages to tax code. Expected to pay $1000? Send them $2000 instead.

I’ll keep my money and continue looking for ways to become super rich on my own. God knows Washington sure isn’t going to do it for me.

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This just in:
“Seventy-one percent of Americans said they disapproved of Obama’s handling of the economy”

The other 29% must be posting on this board!

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The Tea Party nationwide, and pretty much every southern red state, are racists plain and simple. Their sphincters clinched up the second Obama was elected and haven’t let loose since. That’ll drive anybody crazy. They will completely destroy this country, leaving their grandchildren to be attacked by rape gangs in the newest third world country, the future USA, rather than see a black man succeed in the *White* House. Meanwhile, the filthy rich who were basically given the entire wealth of the country by Bush Jr. sit in their armed compounds, concentrating on making more money in China, India and South America. Then just before it hits the fan they will transfer what little bit of their wealth remains in US Dollars to other currencies and flee the country to live safely in a fortified mansion somewhere else, lamenting the fall of the US (which they caused) out of one side of their mouth, and laughing out of the other.

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The economy is a bipartisan disaster. I have no respect for our State Labor Commissioner for passing the buck to Washington. I could blame other people for problems in my job, too, but I know it is just an excuse to not try my hardest. Mr. Butler should never be voted into another public service job if he is going to look for scapegoats for problems which are his responsibility. I believe democrats and republicans alike can see through his bs. Someone with integrity should be in his position. I would dare say that there are many unemployed people out there that could do his job and be humble enough to accept downturns as their problems to fix.

You folks who are being partisan about our state problems should realise that the same people that are running the state were democrats twelve years ago. Most of them do not care about your problems as long as they can hang on to the power. Am I jaded-yes. Are they jaded-most definitely.

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How does Rick Perry get credit for job creation in Texas and Georgia wants to blame Washington for jobs lost here? Will Nathan Deal take responsibility for his states failures on his watch or does he just want credit when things look good?

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I agree with those above who assert that the Tea Baggers are racist to the core and need to be shown the door. Their political posturing at the expense of our country is their only way of demonstrating it without being cast outwardly as a bigot.

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Why is it that other states have a lower unemployment rate than Georgia?
If Washington was really the issue wouldn’t every state have similar unemployment rates?

If we keep electing the same Republicans for office, why would we expect different results?

Georgia voters have been duped by the Republican party.

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01HAWK can’t see the forest for the trees. When you consider that the repubs have said “NO” to almost everything, and purposely (admittedly) tried to destroy Obama, he has been relatively successful. Continue to drink your ignorant kool-aid. Did you vote for Obama because he was Black?? Dude, he was clearly the best candidate compared to McCain. You can’t possibly be this goofy. Let the repubs continue to make excuses for the failures of the state they run. As long as they have ‘chopper cottons’ like you to back them…we’ll stay in this hole.

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Other Gov took the stimuls money and put people back to work Mont, Wm, Co, Ks, Mn, shady Sonny took stimuls money and invest it in his private projects.
Oh but wait, its Obama fault because we have a bunch of stupid hicks who vote the same Rep in who steal our money and dont bring jobs here.

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So what is our Governor doing? He promised job growth. I don’t know why people automatically want to blame President Obama for this mess. Our governor is a Republican. He promised jobs….where are the jobs? It’s going to get worse because all of the seasonal employees that work at places like 6 Flags over Georgia are about to be laid off because they are seasonal workers. President Obama is doing all he can do, but it’s the Republicans that are fighting him tooth and nail. It’s also those idiotic ‘tea party’ people that are trying their best to make President Obama a 1 term President just so they can mess up the entire country! The devil is a lie and it won’t work. OBAMA 2012! I and millions upon millions of other people will re-elect him. OBAMA! We need to continue to make a POSITIVE CHANGE in this country!

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Samantha,

What is our governor doing? He’s not imposing federal government regulations that choke the life out of the economy.

Here’s an excerpt from Neal Boortz–if you’re interested in facts. But if you’re just one of those people clinging to Obama because he’s black, move on–nothing to see here.

Here’s what Obama has managed to do so far:

In the first six months of the 2011 fiscal year, 15 major regulations were issued, with annual costs exceeding $5.8 billion and one-time implementation costs approaching $6.5 billion. No major rulemaking actions were taken to reduce regulatory burdens during this period. Overall, the Obama Administration imposed 75 new major regulations from January 2009 to mid-FY 2011, with annual costs of $38 billion.

Here’s what we can expect in the future .. more regulation!

The spring 2011 Unified Agenda (also known as the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda) lists 2,785 rules (proposed and final) in the pipeline. Of those, 144 were classified as “economically significant.” With each of the 144 pending major rules expected to cost at least $100 million annually, they represent at least $14 billion in new burdens each year.

This is an increase of 15.2 percent in the number of economically significant rules in the agenda between spring 2010 and spring 2011

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Samantha,

Notwithstanding your knowledge of seasonal workers in the entertainment park industry, I think you should double-down on the idea that businesses don’t like uncertainty. If they can’t predict the future costs of their operations, they don’t expand. Bone up on the concept of using business case analysis to make decisions.

Here’s a short video of the CEO of several restaurant chains discussing the impact that uncertainty has on his operations. His company employs 70,000 people, so he has more credibility on the topic than, say, President Obama who has never hired a single employee in the private sector.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0S3xfheycU

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[...] news this morning as Georgia’s unemployment rate again crossed 10%, now standing at 10.1% of Georgians looking for work unable to find [...]

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“I think you should double-down on the idea that businesses don’t like uncertainty.”

Oh shut up about uncertainty. When in history has economic information been perfect and profits guaranteed? Running a business is inherently risky–always has been, always will be. I’m more inclined to agree with Warren Buffett’s outlook than some hack fast food chain CEO.

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This is all the fault of the tea party and rich republicans who have all that money. the government needs to raise taxes on all these rich billionaires and give it to people who can’t find jobs. The unemployment benefits need to be doubled—I can’t live on this chump change the state gives me.

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I still haven’t seen a job’s bill come out of either party of congress, The last time I checked they were responsible for legislation, not the president… people are so biased and pointing fingers and are too stupid to know where they need to be pointing, pick a phone up and call your congressman or woman and ask them what is their plan on job creation.

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RGB – Yes, a lot of new regulations were recently passed but you seem to be conviently forgeting why. Remember Lehman Brothers, the Banking Crash, Auto Industry Crash, Mortgage Company Crash. How many Billions did that cost the government and by default, me and you the average tax payer. Billions! So yes, I want these regulations in place so it doesn’t happen again because you know what you get when you don’t have then. Georgia with the weakest Bank regulation leading the nation in Bank closures. Each time one of those Banks close and the FDIC has to bail them out, guess who that cost. You got it, me and you, while the CEO’s of these institutions skip away with millions. I have seen very few companies that like regulations but at the same time, they will not act for the public good without them.

Oh, and companies are sitting on Trillions right now and not hiring. You know why not, because they don’t need to. It has nothing to do with Obama contrary to popular belief. They have gotten use to getting more from its workers for less and have no need at the moment. Their is always uncertainity in business but if you can make money I don’t know a person that will turn down the opportunity.

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For some of you who want to BASH me for saying I will not vote for OBAMA again. Look at my comments.

I stated that it is time to give someone else an opportunity to see if they can do a better job. Whether it is a DEM or a Rep, we need some new blood to see if someone else can make some things happen.

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I’m more inclined to agree with Warren Buffett’s outlook than some hack fast food chain CEO.

Well, you and the president agree on that point.

And both of you–and all of us–are living with the consequences.

BTW, the DJIA is down 500 points. I know, only the “evil rich” should be concerned about the stock market as it has nothing to do with small investors, pension funds, mutual funds, 401Ks, etc.

01HAWK,

You’re thinking is pretty well on target as far as I can tell. We need results not rhetoric. Traveling around on a bus and giving speeches does nothing to rebuild the economy. And it doesn’t matter what the party affiliation the individual holds–though the few sound ideas that are coming through aren’t from members of the Democrat party.

Osiris, these new regs won’t prevent disaster from happening. They just add to the regulatory burden. One Dodd-Frank provision appears to require 20% down payment for home purchases. I’m OK with that but experts say it would absolutely kill the housing and construction markets. Is that a good regulation?

Or the ObamaCare regulation that required all businesses who spent more than $1,000 with a particular vendor would have to fire paperwork with the IRS. Does that promote business expansion? No it does not.

Or the report today from the White House that states that they generally DO NOT consider both the costs and benefits of the regulations they put into place–in spite of Obama’s telling a farmer yesterday that they consider both costs and benefits.

Only about 16% of Obama’s cabinet have ever worked in the private sector–the lowest such figure in history. There’s no wonder they are bereft of ideas about restoring the economy.

We cannot tax–and we cannot regulate–our way out of a failed economy.

Oh, and Osiris, if you believe in regulating financial institutions, how can you defend the fact that Dodd-Frank left Fannie and Freddie untouched? They drain taxpayers of many, many billions annually because of mismanagement and malfeasance. But Fannie and Freddie are Democrat-protected entities.

Barney Frank won’t regulate his boyfriend’s employer. It’s that simple.

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“your”. Oops. I’m typing too fast.

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One more thing my Egyptian God-named friend,

You dismissed “business uncertainty” as unimportant.

But the CEO (with 70,000 employees) in the video I referenced said that he couldn’t predict his range of costs in certain areas within a 500% range–all because of these new government regulations. He expressed that he had not seen anything like this in the past.

Plus, the CEO said that ObamaCare will cost his company more than double the amount they spent on construction last year to expand their business. Double!

So if things such as facts and costs don’t matter to you (because business has “always dealt with uncertainty”), then nothing does. Because nobody except the government will open an operation when then they know that it’s likely they’ll fail.

Things are different now.

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RGB – I don’t dismiss business uncertainity, I only state tha it has always been around. With every new administration or changes of power in Congress their is uncertainity but why is that stopping companies from hiring. Like, I said because they don’t need to. Think about this, one of the main reason, I support tax cuts to small business but not large ones is that for the most part with large business it doesn’t promote hiring, just their bottom line. If company A moves it’s factory to Mexico, what it has to pay an American worker $20/hr for, it can pay them $20/day. This is because Cost of Living is lower their. You can cut taxes on that company to zero but the Labor cost will still not merit a move of the company back to America. It’s hard to compete with someone that can live off of $300/month. That will not pay my mortgage! I would also listen to Buffet before this CEO. Buffet has wisely steered his company for 30 or 40 years, probably before this guy was out of diapers.

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It is a well known and accepted fact that people who support the Tea Party drink lots of iced tea. When I’m at a restaurant I see all of you fellow supporters out there silently broadcasting your Tea Party support by ordering sweet tea. I know it, the servers know it , the managers know it, because they continue to make it available to you. McDonalds, is really supporting the Tea Party hard core with their huge iced tea for only $1. So enjoy your sweet tea today and every day and the Tea Party thanks you for your support.

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Unemployment in Monroe County, Alabama is right at 20%. That’s bad.

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unemployment rate MUST be high…. 150 + comments… no body working 9 to 5 any more ??

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YES we cannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I believe Nacy Pelosi… it must be the Tea Party…

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I think it is funny how most of the african americans voted blindly cause he was liberal and blakc and he is now causing them more harm then most groups of people.

Bottom line is 18 months of unemployment benefits, trillions in stimulus, bailing out unions, fighting to raise taxes and just making regular villifying comments against the jonbs creators is what has us in this mess.

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Georgian, I could not agree with you more! How about let’s start focusing on what we can do collectively to make a positive difference and stop this blame game. Why? Because blaming in and of itself puts focus on the past. We cannot do anything about the past but continue to give opinions about what happened. The fact is, it has happened, so what? What are you and we going to do about it? What creative solution can we come up with that will make a positive difference in our immediate environment? If everyone takes this approach the US and the planet would be a much better place to be.

Now, I suggest we implement an all hands on the US approach. The rich can do more, corporations can hire more, and citizens like you and I can work more, provided we can find jobs! Which is why we need the small, medium, and large businesses and the mega-large corporations to create jobs. By the way, the president does not create many jobs in the public sector, the job creators are in the private sector, amen.

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Listen redumblicans, manufacturing increased while government decreased. You got what you wanted, right?

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If we have this high unemployment why is Obama granting 300,000 work visa’s to illegal aliens instead of deporting them. I hope all of the people in line at the job fair gives him a big thank you. This man is shameless.

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The crash of the economy didnt happen overnight..it started in office with Clinton (that’s how he was able to bring down the deficit and have virtually no unemployment) with the de-regulation of the mortgages, energy, and financial institutions. It continued to magnify exponentially with “W”…and now Barack Obama is supposed to solve everyhting in one term? People, look at the writing on the wall….who gets the tax breaks? Who can afford medical coverage? Who has the majority of the WEALTH? If I owned a company, I am in business to make money. PERIOD. I”m gonna do everyhting I can to ensure that my company is profitable…that means lower salaries, no raises, have them pay for healthcare, longer hours, and if need be..hire illegals (don’t have to pay social security, etc.) and outsource as much as I can to another country. And the president thinks he can make me hire who?

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A ton of people have stopped looking for jobs—the actual unemployment rate is a lot higher than 10% but they will not disclose it—it will hurt reelection chances.

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this is all the fault of the tea party—the government should ban all these crooks and let obama do what he want to correct the economy.

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Actual unemployment–closer to 20%. Forget that BS you get from DC–total fiction–just for political / reelection purposes. Congrats — you’ve been conned!

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8/21/2011 cnn business report this morning profiles 5 Giant USA firms from a Fortune Magazine
article .These former bastions of US industry all are now growing their business to our new Master CHINA. Coca Cola 49,000 new jobs in China 0 in USA investing $5billion new plant and equipment there Caterpillar 8,500 new jobs in China 11000 in North America over last 18 months billions in new investment plant and equipment in China Merck Pharmaceutical -5000 jobs in US -13000 worldwide but opened 5,000 new positions in China Disney 0 new job in USA but investing $5billion in new Shanghai Disneyworld expected employment 40-50,000 when opens in 2014 Proctor and Gamble -3000 in USA adding 8,000 jobs in China net USA Jobs 3,000 new jobs in China 111,500 See article if all our big companies follow this trend USA middle class is doomed!!!!

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when will the hope and change think kick in and create at least a couple of jobs?

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