After Election 2010, President Obama Has Learned Its’ About Unemployment and Jobs

[DimplesinMI]

Source: Reach Out Job Search

The elections’ of November 2, 2010 is complete. Most of the ballots have been counted, except for Alaska, Washington State and Colorado; where races are too close to call or counting continue to take place though-out the week.

Millions of unemployed Americans are wondering the next steps to President Obama’s policies for creating jobs and return positive job growth back our the nations’ economy.

It is estimated that up to 30 million Americans are either unemployed or underemployed. The nations’ jobless rate has stood at 9.6 percent or near the double digits, for the last two years.

Developing a conclusion that the takeover by the Republican party of the United States House and the gain of six seats in the Democratic controlled Senate; was about the lack of employment opportunities available, would be the right progress to take from the results.

Read more: http://www.reachoutjobsearch.com/2010/11/after-election-2010-president-obama-has.html

[liberal N proud]

1. And voters thought that electing republicans would create jobs?

The delusions are wild.

The GOP is never about JOBs for the masses. They are only about profit for their rich friends.


Way to pull the plug on an already listing vessel.

[PinkFloyd]

6. Out of the frying pan and into the fire...

For people who don't know much about politics they see a Democratic majority that didn't deliver and they really believe the GOP will. It's so stupid it's nearly comical see the unemployed or struggling person who voted GOP this cycle who actually believes Speaker Bohener will do things to help someone like them. Comical of course, until you realize how Bohener might effect you.

[JDPriestly]

15. They think that the two parties are pretty much the same, that they

are alike, that it is just a difference in personalities. That's the political view of the average person. And of course, Obama does nothing to disprove that belief. He tries to act like we can all be buddies if we just try a little harder. No, Mr. President, the Republicans are waging a sort of non-violent (for the most part) war on the rest of us. If you haven't discovered that yet, you are about to.

You cannot compromise with sociopaths, and that is what enough of the Republicans are to cause the problem.

The nation's only hope is that a few Republicans, maybe of the Olympia Snowe class will recognize that the Rand Paul's are crazy and side with Obama. But there aren't many of those so-called "moderate" Republicans left. I can hardly think of any. Can you?

[defendandprotect]

25. Thank you .... +1000% -- We now have a right wing party and a radical right wing party -- !!

[defendandprotect]

23. Well, neither Obama, nor Dems told them any differently, really .....

Finally, some one in an article TODAY is commenting on the fact that Obama/Dems

NEVER called out Democrats to demonstrate/rally for MEDICARE FOR ALL --

How simple that would have been!!

Repugs have to PAY for their demonstrators -- !!

Democrats try to hide liberal/progressives -- !!

76%+ of Americans wanted single-payer/government run health care --

PLUS, Catholics by 73% and 83% wanted the same -- including coverage for

reproductive health care -- condoms, HIV, sex education, medically necessary abortions ---

by large majorities . . . . supported abortion CHOICE by 51% -- !!!

What US Catholic Bishops and their attempted pressuring of Speaker Nancy Pelosi are really

all about is their attempt to regain control over their own parishioners by exerting their

influence on our government!!!

Shameful!!

[defendandprotect]

21. Which voters ... T-baggers .... ?

[mike_c]

2. stop the wars immediately and start investing a billion dollars a day...

...in the U.S., rebuilding infrastructure, restoring education budgets, cleaning up the environment, eradicating poverty, and developing clean energy sources. Create free or low wireless broadband. Etc.

Or just keep letting the MIC run the economy. They're doing such an excellent job!

[JDPriestly]

17. They could still keep their wars going if they would just close some bases overseas.

Chalmers Johnson has stated that while there are 192 nations in the U.N., we have at least 740 bases overseas. Just close a third of them, and think of the money we could save. We have to pay other countries for the privilege of having bases in them. Chalmers Johnson is particularly focused on shutting down Okinawa. The Japanese do not really want us there.

Sounds good to me. In this day and age, we do not need over 740 bases overseas. It's a ridiculous waste of money.

[ProudDad]

30. USAmerica doesn't need a bloody war machine that's bigger than the rest of the

world's combined...

Or do they.

I guess when you're ripping off 25% of the Earth's resources for 4% of the people, you need a big honkin' war machine...

To keep your victims in line...

[JDPriestly]

34. I'm not using that much of the world's resources. How is that figured.

I've lived in some other countries. We really don't live that much better than folks in Europe do -- maybe not as well.

I think that much of that 25% of the Earth's resources goes to our military, not to our consumers.

[ProudDad]

37. That's because the Europeans live better not bigger

and indeed they don't have the insane war machine...

They also all have Universal, Comprehensive (mostly single-payer) Health care, much smaller houses/apartments, much more efficient cities (built around mass transit instead of cars), etc. etc. etc.

And even they use a disproportionate amount of the Earth's resources. They are culpable too.

But, most of that 25% the USAmerican Empire rips off goes to the mindless consumerism that passes for "quality of life" in this benighted country...

But over 55% of discretionary USAmerican government spending goes to the war machine... But that's only about $1.2 - 1.3 trillion...

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But the dirty little elephant in the living room, the REALLY inconvenient truth is that the Earth is overpopulated by at least 5 billion persons... So even though 4 billion of them live lives of misery (because, duh, most of their resources go support the 2 billion at the top - including you) we're still overdrawing the Earth's resource account by over 50%, that is, we are using up and polluting our resource base, our food chain and our environment 50% faster than the Earth can heal from the damage we are doing.


PS: As a USAmerican with (presumably) a high speed internet account, computer, home(rented or owned?), a couple of cars, a couple of TV sets, plenty of food and drink...you as a middle class USAmerican individual are actually using up more than 25% of your SHARE of the Earth's resources -- as am I...

[defendandprotect]

24. We're building a new HALF BILLION $$$$ addition to our embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan!!!

BUT WE CAN'T AFFORD MEDICARE FOR ALL !!!

What absolutely BS -- this is simply all about PRESERVING PRIVATIZED health

care for benefit of corporations/Big Pharma!!

[bc3000]

3. Maybe it's about a base that sees many unfulfilled campaign promises?

Things that might have turned out more progressive voters:

* Ending the war in Iraq
* Closing Guantanimo
* Ending don't ask don't tell

These were promises he made during his campaign, weren't they?

[rayofreason]

4. BO made lots of promises...

...but making and keeping are 2 different things.

[midnight]

12. Nancy Pelosi said something like that when she was trying to get a public option

on the table.....

[ArcticFox]

5. About that base

Maybe they didn't come out to vote for democrats because of the distinct rightward shift the democrats made in the past couple years.

[cottonseed]

36. The "base" had nothing to do with this election.

As they do with most elections.

[Drale]

7. The thing about campaign promises on both sides

is that you don't know what you can and can not do until you actually have the power. The tea baggers think they are going to be able to control government but they can't. They will be delegated to basically sweeping the halls, and getting the senior senators coffee.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. But we do

That's what gets me.

[defendandprotect]

20. The thing is that when Repugs are minority they have the power ....

and when Dems are the majority, Repugs STILL have the power--!!!

In the 1980's I watched as Majority leader Sen. George Mitchell turned the

US Senate over to Sen. Bob Dole -- !!!

It's all Wiz of Oz -- for the benefit of corporations -- wealthy elites!

[Bitwit1234]

9. Bonehead already said his priority is dismantling Obama's

agenda for the last two years, jobs etc will wait. Cause they don't have any idea on how to create any.

[tomm2thumbs]

10. I will assume that unemployment benefits will now officially dry up - perhaps foodstamps?

the Tea Baggers have a lot of boxes checked off - let's see how they fly in public with actual consequences...

[DimplesinMI]

11. That is a real possibly......

Sad, sorry times ahead.

[defendandprotect]

16. How many Americans even know that Repugs held up unemployment benefits for so long???

[tomm2thumbs]

26. hopefully they'll know now - although too late to do anything about it

[defendandprotect]

32. Well, hopefully Dems will find a way to keep the payments moving...!!!

[unkachuck]

13. two years ago....

....the pukes crashed the economy costing trillions of dollars and millions of jobs. And we couldn't make the pukes suffer any significant political loss or punishment? And the pukes made us suffer their political loss instead?

....jobs may be part of it but the main problem is weak, inadequate and vacillating corporate Dem leadership....

[JDPriestly]

14. Had Max Baucus moved the Health Care Reform bill through

his Senate committee faster, Obama could have passed a good jobs bill, and he would be viewed as having lost some seats but having weathered the storm.

I hope that Obama places the blame for this squarely where it belongs -- on Max Baucus.

The delay and scene that Max Baucus made over the health care initiative gave the Tea Baggers their opportunity and their momentum.

No other Democrat, neither in Congress nor on the blogs nor on television, not even Evan Bayh, did as much harm to our Party as Max Baucus. I just want to remind everyone of that. Max Baucus worked hand in hand with the insurance companies to set this up. Whether he did that intentionally, or just fell into a trap, I do not know. But that is my opinion. That is how I see it.

[defendandprotect]

19. Wait ... Obama also worked back room deals with Big Pharma and

PRIVATE health care industry .....

Both Obama and Baucus were two of the most heavily financed candidates by health

care industry!


NYTimes 8/5/09 -- reposted on DU September 2010 --

WASHINGTON — Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 billion.

Drug industry lobbyists reacted with alarm this week to a House health care overhaul measure that would allow the government to negotiate drug prices and demand additional rebates from drug manufacturers.

In response,the industry successfully demanded that the White House explicitly acknowledge for the first time that it had committed to protect drug makers from bearing further costs in the overhaul. The Obama administration had never spelled out the details of the agreement.



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/health/policy/06insure.html


AND ....


Rahm .... crowing about preserving "private health care industry" ... business s/b grateful!Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:03 AM


Here is the quote: ”In a Thursday interview, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel argued that rather than recoiling against Obama, business leaders should be grateful for his support on at least a half-dozen counts: his advocacy of greater international trade and education reform open markets despite union skepticism; his rejection of calls from some quarters to nationalize banks during the financial meltdown; the rescue of the automobile industry;

the fact that the overhaul of health care preserved the private delivery system;

the fact that billions in the stimulus package benefited business with lucrative new contracts, and that financial regulation reform will take away the uncertainty that existed with a broken, pre-crash regulatory apparatus.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=B2F85DDF-18...

[ProudDad]

31. RIGHT! And I'll bet the deal was struck before Obama took the oath

during the "transition" - you know, that time when he sold us out...

[defendandprotect]

33. Date NY Times reported was '09 ....

reposted on DU September 2010 ....

[ProudDad]

29. Obama could have gotten Baucus on board with a phone call...

Just like Lyndon Johnson did with Medicare...

"Why, Bubba, ya' know that bridge you wanted in your district...we'll you scratch mine and I'll scratch yours ... or you just might have a real lean time until you try to get re-elected." That's how it's done...

[Mikeystyle]

18. Obama promises to bend time and space, invent cold fusion and walk on water–but not tell a

President Barack Obama responded to Tuesday’s mid-term election losses by promising to bend time and space, invent a cold fusion reactor and walk on water at least twice a week in an effort to appease his base—but also indicated he would keep the American people in the dark about what he’s accomplished.

“My administration steered through Congress the largest legislative agenda since FDR and The New Deal, but polls indicate most Americans don’t even know about it. For example, the stimulus bill included a tax cut for 95 percent of American families, one-third of it was tax cuts, yet most Americans don’t realize their taxes were reduced,” Obama said. “This lack of communication has been a hallmark of my first two years and I intend to keep that going.”

Obama noted the administration also passed financial reform, health care reform, expanded kids’ health insurance, passed the fair pay act, signed a nuclear reduction treaty with Russia and enacted the largest investment in infrastructure since the Eisenhower administration. Most Americans are completely unaware of this, which Obama called “a perfect score” in his lack of communication.

(continued….)

http://www.thechicagodope.com/2010/11/03/obama-vows-to-keep-accomplishments-to-himself/

[truthisfreedom]

22. Umm... What kind of news service is this???

Reachoutjobsomethingorother?

[defendandprotect]

27. K&R

[ProudDad]

28. My blue-dog's race is still not decided...

and I'm still DAMN glad I didn't vote for her!

[Javaman]

35. Now he gets it? Wasn't he the same guy that was able to play 4th dimensional chess?

While doing the Sunday Times crossword in pen at the same time reciting King Lear back wards in French?