The "underlying problem" is you Progressives don't have a fucking clue how to create jobs or stimulate the economy! Here's a bit of "perspective" for you, Joey...those unemployed people wouldn't BE unemployed if we had a President who grasped basic economic concepts. Barack Obama has overseen the worst recovery from a recession SINCE FDR and he's just been going through the motions since his "stimulus" failed four YEARS ago!
Well, if he got the stimulus that he asked for and not the one that was about a third tax cuts (which are always fucking useless) maybe that would have stimulated jobs.
Of course, when you sign free trade treaties that make it easy to send the jobs to third world shitholes, and then you wonder why no one has a job.
Oh, by the way. After 2008, your side doesn't get to argue it knows how to create jobs.
Gee, Joe...while you were in "college" getting your "history degree"...maybe you should have taken some economics classes so you'd know that tax cuts have been used to stimulate job creation by liberal Presidents like JFK as well as conservative ones like Reagan.
As for who knows how to create jobs? It's been six YEARS and Barry still hasn't got a clue about how that takes place! What's really pathetic is that he doesn't even seem to care at this point...he's going through the motions while doing next to nothing.