Jo's Cafe

Are jobs really being lost at $500 million a month as Nancy Pelosi says they are?

(Remember, there are only $303 million people in the United States)

Well, maybe not so much.  Could be a hiring freeze, or because businesses are failing weighted under heavily imposed Government business taxes.

Ed Morrissey via Hot Air blog has an idea:

We read plenty about large layoffs by firms in financial trouble in the economic crisis, but CNN’s Chris Isidore says we mostly miss the real problem in labor in this crisis.  Hiring has dropped to decade-long lows, and while that may sound redundant, Isidore says the subtle difference makes a difference in how we need to approach the problem:

But the real problem in the U.S. labor market today isn’t layoffs. It’s a hiring freeze that is gripping most work places – and has not gotten nearly as much attention as the job cuts.

Jobs are out there. Its who is looking and what they want is the problem. When we first moved here almost eight years ago, I was moving from one career to another and starting over in a new job market. Yes, I had offers for jobs, many in fact, but a lot were in the service industry and for hours I wasn’t comfortable working. But they were there. If you’re feeding your family and are being picky about how to do that, then you will be sitting on your ass drawing a government check and not doing right for your family.

On another note, to me the biggest problem in this country are unions. Look what they’ve done to the State of Michigan (in conjunction with their liberal Governor) and the automobile industry. Please tell me how other auto makers in this country can crank out car after car, that people buy, and they are not begging Washington for a bail out?

I’ll tell you – No Unions.

We need to push Washington and the Unions OUT OF OUR LIVES FOREVER!  But Dear Leader is ready to force all US based companies to only hire union workers if they bid on or receive a government contract.

Thank You Obamabots.  Change – you’re fixing to get a lot of it.

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