Job creation is the lowest of any recovery,not even enough to absorb the growing labor force.
Because public sector job losses are offsetting private sector job gains.
What the hell did you people think was going to happen when your entire party platform consists of "shrinking government"?
Major companies have lots of money in the bank because they cannot invest it in new products and equipment because they cannot price those investments.
What?
Small companies are going out of business. Major investment has shifted to overseas, where there is a more stable legal system and economy.
There's a "more stable legal system in India, China and Singapore?
What have you been smoking exactly? I want some.
Investment has shifted overseas because corporations have no sense of patriotism, and are taking their jobs to countries where they can pay workers 20 cents an hour.
But even with all those jobs being sent overseas, there is still a net surplus in the private sector in the US, and has been for some time.
Austerity measures in the states, and a withdrawal of federal funding to the states, is offsetting those numbers.
Which is exactly the point the President was making.
Frankly this will go down as the biggest embarassment of Obama's administration. I liked Jindal's comment: Obama is so removed from the private sector he needs a passport to get there.
Perhaps to right-wingers, who are immersed in their own bubble world where "the private sector" means the same thing as "the economy".