President Obama described the horror of unemployment in remarks on unemployment benefits: Posted on 07/19/2010 9:36:06 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
President Obama described the horror of unemployment in remarks on unemployment benefits:
" We need to pass it for men like Jim Chukalas, who’s with me today, and who worked as a parts manager at a Honda dealership until about two years ago. Jim has posted resumes everywhere, and even gone door-to-door looking for jobs, but hasn’t gotten a single interview. He’s trying to be strong for his two young kids, but now that he’s exhausted his unemployment benefits, that’s getting harder to do...We need to pass it for all the Americans who haven’t been able to find work in an economy where there are five applicants for every opening; " Where are the jobs, Mr. President?
It is true – Americans don’t want hand-outs – the people want jobs. Unfortunately about the only people who get jobs are President Obama’s closest friends.
I understand that Sam Kass is cool and a brilliant chief, but America doesn’t need a Food Czar right now.
The only jobs the ObamaCare and the Financial Reform create are federal bureaucrat’s jobs. These laws also create an atmosphere of uncertainty since nobody really knows what follows from those massive 5000 pages of regulations.
The unemployed Americans are filing their 1000th on-line job resume while President Obama is passing more regulations on business... The person filing bankruptcy after waiting for the Stimulus, for the Stimulus II, for the Unemployment Summit to create a job is having hard time to believe that moratorium on off-shore drilling will do it.
Unemployment benefits do not create jobs – tax-cuts do.
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Yes - he did blame Bush:
“After years of championing policies that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, the same people who didn’t have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are now saying we shouldn’t offer relief to middle class Americans like Jim, or Leslie, or Denise, who really do need help.”
The script is here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-calls-republicans-end-obstruction-unemployment-benefits-urges-congr
Weird, Obama hasn’t been worried about unemployment for the private sector, til just months before the elections..
And his solution.....need to drill some more holes to let the water out.
Why do politicians still think that trotting out the Common Man Argument is anything other than idiotic?
Cloward and Piven's worst nightmare. It does no good to overwhelm the government with demands for purloined wealth that can no longer be found.
LLS
I recently had a job posted for a Project Manager for IT related projects. I had over 150 applicants. Of that number, at least half had enough experience to get the job.
Oh, the ole Clinton, I feel your pain.
Then takes another stab to your heart.
Ignorant voters.
22% and rising! Have we reached utopia yet?
At least you are able to post a job.
There are a few openings here, but I have not applied - too hard to be seen through the crowd. This winter will be no fun.
Not sure what’s worse:
Unemployment across America
or
Employment specifically at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Bad as it is, we’ve still got 4 people working who NEED to be unemployed:
BO
Plugs Biden
Nancy Pe-Lousy
Harry Reid
That picture is dusgusting. They trying to tell us this is his JFK moment? What a small little boy he is in that pic.
WITH A COLOSSAL SMILE ON HIS MARXIST KENYAN UGLY PUSS!!!!
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