[SeekAndFind]

[Frantzie]

Atlas shrugged in November 2008 on election night. Unless the GOP wins in a blowout then demands proof on eligibility then removes - it is over.

The idiots are controlled by TV and ball games. As long as the sheep can hold the clicker - they will accept serfdom.

[reagan_fanatic]

[Erik Latranyi]

Expect a push by Obama and this congress to go after company’s undistributed earnings just like FDR did when faced with the same reluctance to spend.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Libs I know (those who are working) tell me that there are jobs out there -- but Americans refuse to do them.

I don't know why the sidewalks aren't littered with Libs nursing busted lips.

[YankeeReb]

This sounds like so much fuzzy math. Sure, maybe it's true that companies are not expecting to layoff as much. They've reached a point where they've cut as many as they dare. It's like the bogus statistic the MSM likes to throw around, "The number of first time jobless claims fell to its lowest level blah blah blah.....". After awhile you get to a point where you only have a skeleton staff so you can't layoff any more. The real statistic should include those who exhausted their benefits along with the avg # of employees in a firm. When the number of jobs increases, then and only then is it a recovery.
Until then...
FUBO

[DManA]

“Want” is an inoperative word. Management has a fiduciary duty to the owners and they apparently find it imprudent to hire at this time. We all know why.

[highlander_UW]

It’s not that businesses don’t want to hire people...they are afraid to hire people because the associated costs are not clear. Businesses can’t take the risk that government policies will massively increase the cost of employees.

[July4]

Businesses don't want to hire anyone? True. We'll be lucky if we can pay the rent and keep the doors open with our present staff. We are caught in the jaws of a cruel vise: punitive taxes and heavy-handed government control on one side and inflation and slowing customer payments on the other.

Our Dear Leader is, no doubt, amused. He would like nothing better than to see every independent business in America fail.

[TomGuy]

Obama is giving a speech now on passage of the extended benefits bill.

He is whining that people need the extended benefits, as they are unable to find employment.

[To Clueless Obama: Why aren’t you developing the jobs you promised the various stimulus packages would develop? Then, the extended benefits bill would be unnecessary.]

[bert]

In my view this article is balderdash.....trash journalism.

It deals completely in the abstract, gross, or maybe macro levels.

The piece assumes with no justification a homogeneous economy. That is of course not the case. There can be some growth here while there is some contraction there. The change is not uniform and although when averaged can be spread across the whole.

There can be some hiring where business is improving but that improvement is specific for specific reasons. To generalize is to misunderstand.

[catnipman]

I don't know why everyone is whining so much about non-existent hiring by business. This is just so easy to fix. All the Rats have to do is pass a bill that requires all new businesses to hire 10% more people than currently on their payrolls, or otherwise they must pay a penalty of twice the average salary of existing employees for each person not hired. You know, just apply the Rat's new model for Obamacare: each person pays a penalty for not buying health insurance. Actually, when you think about it, the federal government's power becomes unlimited with this wonderfully new and creative ability to penalize for failure to act in a way the government demands, so what's the big deal with ordering businesses to hire the amount of employees the government demands, anyway?