Listen to the people who still need jobs, Mr. President.

[deminks]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

The unemployment rate edged down to 10.0 percent in November, and nonfarm
payroll employment was essentially unchanged (-11,000), the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics reported today. In the prior 3 months, payroll job losses
had averaged 135,000 a month. In November, employment fell in construction,
manufacturing, and information, while temporary help services and health care
added jobs.

(snip)

The number of people working part time for economic reasons (sometimes re-
ferred to as involuntary part-time workers) was little changed in November
at 9.2 million. These individuals were working part time because their hours
had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job. (See
table A-5.)

About 2.3 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force in
November, an increase of 376,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not sea-
sonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and
were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12
months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched
for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. (See table A-13.)

Among the marginally attached, there were 861,000 discouraged workers in
November, up from 608,000 a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally ad-
justed.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work be-
cause they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.5 mil-
lion persons marginally attached to the labor force had not searched for
work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attend-
ance or family responsibilities.

(snip)

Manufacturing employment fell by 41,000 in November. The average monthly
decline for the past 5 months (-46,000) was much lower than the average
monthly job loss for the first half of this year (-171,000). About 2.1 mil-
lion manufacturing jobs have been lost since December 2007; the majority of
this decline has occurred in durable goods manufacturing (-1.6 million).

(snip)

Employment in professional and business services rose by 86,000 in November.
Temporary help services accounted for the majority of the increase, adding
52,000 jobs. Since July, temporary help services employment has risen by
117,000.

(end snip)

My point is, it seems that millions have given up looking for work and are not even counted because they haven't looked for work in the last 4 weeks. It also seems that we continue to bleed manufacturing jobs - we don't make anything anymore. And it would seem that part time and temporary jobs have increased, with a decreased sense of job security, and most importantly- no benefits.

These are the people that you need to listen to, not the big biznuts who ship our jobs overseas so they can buy a bigger yacht. And although working on bridges and roads will put money in our pockets ( if a 55 year old can put on an orange vest and slop road goo), it is seasonal and temporary and won't fix the real problems.

This is what Smirk the First started in his 8 year reign of horror. Make it stop. 1 in 8 now on food stamps, Mr. President. Do something. Stop the wars and find the funds that way. Big Biznuts and their fundie spiritualists are just not going to help. Period.