Job openings drop for second straight month

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Job openings drop for second straight month

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer Christopher S. Rugaber, Ap Economics Writer – 2 hrs 15 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Job openings dropped sharply in September, a sign that hiring is likely to remain weak over the next several months.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that employers advertised 2.9 million jobs at the end of September. That's a drop of 163,000, or 5.3 percent, from the previous month.

The figures come after the department issued a modestly positive employment report on Friday. That report found that employers added a net total of 151,000 jobs in October, more than most economists expected.

But Tuesday's report, known as the Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey, or JOLTS, signals that employers still aren't willing to hire in large numbers. The economy needs to add at least 100,000 jobs per month just to keep up with population growth. The unemployment rate was unchanged in October, at 9.6 percent.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101109/ap_on_bi_ge/us_job_openings


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We need our president and our Congress to be creating jobs and running the economic

show -- NOT the FED ....

These are POLITICAL DECISIONS .... and they should be made by our president and Congress --

NOT the unelected FED --

[county worker]

1. The new House will not create jobs.

All they say is trickle down will create jobs which Reagan's economics guy said was voodoo economics.

I'm afraid the government does not care about the unemployed. The plan is to shrink the economy and let the wealthy and those with jobs create the demand. The rest can please die "and decrease the excess population."






---from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens


'They are. Still,' returned the gentleman,' I wish I could say they were not.'

'The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?' said Scrooge.

'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.'

'Are there no prisons?"

'Plenty of prisons,' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
'And the Union workhouses.' demanded Scrooge. 'Are they still in operation?'


'Both very busy, sir.'

'Oh. I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,' said Scrooge. 'I'm very glad to hear it.'

'Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,' returned the gentleman, 'a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?'

'Nothing!' Scrooge replied.

'You wish to be anonymous?'

'I wish to be left alone,' said Scrooge. 'Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned-they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there.'

'Many can't go there; and many would rather die.'

'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

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2. That is the plan, as long as they have control of government ... didn't we vote for Democrats to

change that?

Obviously, this time around, voting for a Democratic president hasn't been

much help in getting change?

Now what?

[county worker]

3. I look for more poverty and homelessness. We have become a nation that doesn't care.

Not all of us don't care but the majority has been taught to not care because we need to shrink the government and cut taxes. That meme only serves to increase the gap in wealth and poverty yet the multitudes are ignorant of that fact. They think their vote is self serving but in reality it is not.

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5. Understand that feeling....but the '08 vote is evidence against it --

AND the obvious disillusionment with Obama is with his corporate agenda and

his purposeful failure on MEDICARE FOR ALL which 76% of the nation -- and more --

wanted.

Don't kid yourself that a large part of the campaign by elites doesn't have a lot

to do with demoralizing the public and making them think they might as well give up!

The nation supported the NEW DEAL -- it was elites who have looked to overturn it from

the very beginning.

Capitalism isn't about competition -- it's about "killing the competition" -- look at

how many companies thrived during the NEW DEAL years and how many prominent companies

have been knocked out since the dismantling of rules and regulations which controlled

predatory capitalism.

Many small businesses understand they are only a few steps from being knocked out by

large corporations.

Of course, it's not the same kind of fear that is felt by those threatened with foreclosure

or poverty staring them in the face -- but they know.


And, btw, so was the 2000 vote and the 2004 vote -- stolen elections which give evidence

to the need of the right wing to keep at it because no one is willingly electing them!

That's also why we have such a strong presence of right wing control over our "free press."

Any bit of truth is a threat to their myth making and propaganda. It's like a pebble hitting

and shattering a mirror. Keep tossin' those pebbles! :)

[county worker]

7. I would like to believe that I am wrong but I haven't seen anything lately to change my mind.

I go into despair sometimes. I even have to stop thinking about it for a time to keep from going into a depression all the time.

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8. Agree ... don't think we'll see more stimulus... and the first one was only 25% of what was needed-!

Evidently, economists were telling Obama he needed a stimulous four times

bigger than what he settled for!!

[SDuderstadt]

4. As in many other things...

D&P has absolutely no idea what the Federal Reserve actually does.

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6. kick --