Comments on: Unemployment On The Rise In 3-County Area

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:17:24 +0000

I voted for President Obama and I am proud of it!! He is doing a great job, government doesn’t make jobs, too bad Gov. Scott didn’t know that!!

By: Kay

Kay — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:29:59 +0000

Jane, Dgh, and BPD said it all.

I saw yesterday one of the incumbents up at the bait shop.
Good to know.

Won’t be voting for them either…….

By: t

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:37:41 +0000

Obviously there is a large structional change in the economy that will probably last a long time. We may never see low unemployment for a long time.

Businesses will not hire with fianancial and regulatory uncertainty. The continue increase in the national debt and the tremers in Europe will keep businesses on the sidelines and they will take the cash positions they are building to use for emergencies. Europe is heading for a financial collapse and we are also headed there. The solution of solving a debt problem is not to add more debt like the idiots in europe are doing. You must reduce the debt and bankrupsy/default is teh only way to correct the problem. Kicking the can down the road and growing Europes debt will make the collapse much worse.

Demand has not increased significantly and thus businesses do not need to hire

Health care bill provided huge cost uncertainties to the small businesses who do much of the nation hiring.

By: huh

huh — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:33:49 +0000

Thats an easy fix, the Republicans will just cut back unemployment benefits so they don’t have to mark more people as unemployed!

If only our previous president had not spent trillions of dollars on a useless war we wouldn’t have these problems. Why was no one out raged at war spending?

By: BarrineauParkDad

BarrineauParkDad — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:43:32 +0000

The jobs are there, but the jobs which pay good money, require either hard work which most are not willing to do or an education and skills that most don’t have. The days of getting a good paycheck to sit on a stool and put one screw in one hole for eight hours are long gone. To make it today, you have to have an education and be able to flex some brain muscles.

By: dad

dad — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:02:18 +0000

Thanks dgh. You said what I was thinking.
What short memories some people have.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:43:50 +0000

Cut UCC benefits to twelve weeks and watch this problem start to go away. I still have a problem with people that take advantage of this for one hundred weeks. Many are taking the benefits and working for cash on the side. Offer most a job and they will quickly tell you it will mess up the UCC they are drawing. Stop those benefits at twelve weeks and make it mandatory to not reapply for six months and see what happens.

By: mom

mom — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:31:17 +0000

I didn’t either!!

By: dgh

dgh — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:26:19 +0000

On politics, if that crazy Bachmann gets the nomination you better believe I’ll vote Obama for the country can’t handle economic crisis, an unstable world climate and an anti-intellectual who is prejudice in the White House.

By: dgh

dgh — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:23:42 +0000

Sam: seriously? The middle class has been in decline since the early 80’s, the recession started prior to this administration, and is one of the worst we have endured and knew the road to recovery would not be fast, but now it is entirely the President’s fault? I’m afraid I smell the taint of politics. Obama has not done everything right, but when it comes to jobs, neither party is helping, and unfortunately the GOP is currently more out there than the Dems. Maintaining subsidies to large corporations (ag and oil for two) does not create jobs or protect them. Globalization has taken them overseas for the pure form of ‘free market economics’ tells us to make products in the cheapest markets for consumers have been taught the only important thing is the cheapest price; not good jobs, quality of life, etc. Funny thing is we don’t get the ‘cheapest price’ but we get poorer quality and our jobs overseas. Walmart selling a TV cheaper than a local company is usually selling a TV that has less quality inside the cabinet and just looks the same, thus those tidy profits they continue to rake in.

Job creation is another matter that should have policy that promotes the segment that creates the most jobs; small business start ups.