Those people who have been unemployed for over a year are not counted. Many have given up looking for a job because there are none to be had. Alot of these people unemployment benefits have ran out.
I have talked to many new college graduates, many who are engineers that can't find any employment. It is very sad.
I can't help to think that if the stimulus bill that was passed was really a stimulus bill that we would have been seeing a strong turn in the right direction on unemployment. Unfortunately that stimulus bill was anything but a stimulus. It was nothing more than a pork barrel spending bill. Had the feds just limited their outrageous spending did across the board tax cuts, you would be seeing job growth by now and not job losses.
One thing that made me sick in my own state of Colorado was that they are going to spend 5 million from this stimulus bill to re-pave a BIKE trail that runs along a highway out in Denver. This will temorarily employ 6- 10 men. They were proud of this number when they announced their plan, it's ridiculous. THAT MEANS THAT EACH OF THESE TEMPORARY JOBS COST $500,000 of tax payer dollars. It won't stimulate anything and it certainly does not create a long term employment situation for anybody. Besides that, we don't need that trail re-paved, it's a bike trail for crimany sakes. Ride on the dirt!!!!!.
The liberal democrats are now in full control of this country and it's policies, they even have enough senators to block a filibuster. It's a sad thing, spending is totally out of control Common sense does not prevail.
The good news, they have enough rope that they will hang themselves, there is no one else to blame, then we turn hard right, first in the 2010 elections and then the 2012. In 2012 Obama will be toast and so burnt that your local ice cream man will be able to run against him and win.
I have talked to many new college graduates, many who are engineers that can't find any employment. It is very sad.
I can't help to think that if the stimulus bill that was passed was really a stimulus bill that we would have been seeing a strong turn in the right direction on unemployment. Unfortunately that stimulus bill was anything but a stimulus. It was nothing more than a pork barrel spending bill. Had the feds just limited their outrageous spending did across the board tax cuts, you would be seeing job growth by now and not job losses.
One thing that made me sick in my own state of Colorado was that they are going to spend 5 million from this stimulus bill to re-pave a BIKE trail that runs along a highway out in Denver. This will temorarily employ 6- 10 men. They were proud of this number when they announced their plan, it's ridiculous. THAT MEANS THAT EACH OF THESE TEMPORARY JOBS COST $500,000 of tax payer dollars. It won't stimulate anything and it certainly does not create a long term employment situation for anybody. Besides that, we don't need that trail re-paved, it's a bike trail for crimany sakes. Ride on the dirt!!!!!.
The liberal democrats are now in full control of this country and it's policies, they even have enough senators to block a filibuster. It's a sad thing, spending is totally out of control Common sense does not prevail.
The good news, they have enough rope that they will hang themselves, there is no one else to blame, then we turn hard right, first in the 2010 elections and then the 2012. In 2012 Obama will be toast and so burnt that your local ice cream man will be able to run against him and win.