I need a freakin' job!

[saywhatkid]

From Yahoo News
Thu May 13, 3:52 pm ET

"I need a freakin' job." That's the message President Obama saw as he arrived in Buffalo, N.Y., this afternoon for an event talking up the administration's success in creating new jobs. He also pitched Congress on approving a $30 billion credit for small-business growth.

Yet critics say Obama has been focusing his recovery efforts too narrowly and hasn't done enough to help people find work. After all, the latest job figures show 9.9 percent of the country still out of work. That inspired a group of unemployed Buffalo residents — who also have a website called INAFJ.org — to appeal to the president in the form of a billboard along the route his motorcade took into town.

Here is a photo of the billboard:

Yet jobs aren't a huge priority for either party heading into the midterm campaigns, as Politics Daily's Jill Lawrence notes. That might be because other issues have taken precedence. A new Gallup poll finds that for the first time in two months, the issue of "jobs" has fallen to No. 2 on the list of issues Americans are most concerned about. The new No. 1 issue: The economy in general. White House officials defend their efforts on jobs, saying the president has been focused as much on creating new jobs as on "saving" current positions.

But here's a sign the job seekers' message to the administration may be getting through: The White House just announced Obama will travel next Tuesday to Youngstown, Ohio — where unemployment hit 15.1 percent last month, the city's highest jobless rate in more than 15 years. The focus of Obama's visit: "jobs and the economy," according to the White House.

And a more direct sign still: Obama press aide Bill Burton was asked about the billboard in today's press gaggle. His reply was, "The President is here to talk about jobs, what his administration has done to create jobs, what we need to do in order to create an environment where small businesses can create jobs. So the answer is, we're on the path to creating more jobs, and we've got a lot more work to do."

—Holly Bailey is the senior politics writer for Yahoo! News.

 

[kokonut]

What good is it when you have the coming health care requirement that will hurt many, many small businesses, enough so to even put them out of business?

http://www.uschamber.com/NR/rdonlyr...lgd3h/110509SenateBillBadforSmallBusiness.pdf

That "freakin' job" won't happen once this health care thing takes off.

 

[Jiro]

What good is it when you have the coming health care requirement that will hurt many, many small businesses, enough so to even put them out of business?

http://www.uschamber.com/NR/rdonlyr...lgd3h/110509SenateBillBadforSmallBusiness.pdf

That "freakin' job" won't happen once this health care thing takes off.

many small businesses are exempted from it

 

[Foxrac]

many small businesses are exempted from it

Yup, that's right. :roll:

 

[kokonut]

“Small businesses unhappy with health care law, insurance costs. … Allison Blackmer is co-owner of a small computer software business in Appleton and has eight employees. She’s expecting a premium increase of up to 20 percent. … But the more Blackmer learns about the new health care insurance law, the more she gets angry. ‘I am so sick of hearing that word transparent. This health care bill was not transparent,’ Blackmer blasted at Congressman Steve Kagen during a gathering of small business owners designed to highlight the benefits of the law. ‘Premiums are going up this year you didn't fix a thing,’ she told the Congressman. In meeting with small business owners Kagen is finding some resistance to the new law.”

Small businesses unhappy with health care law, insurance costs

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today released a letter signed by more than 130 economists to the White House explaining how the Democrats’ health care legislation is a job-killer.- http://gopleader.gov/UploadedFiles/Economists_Letter_to_Obama_and_Congress_March.pdf

Dear President Obama and Congress:

As early as this week, the House of Representatives will vote on the Senate-passed health care bill as well as a reconciliation package making changes to the bill. While Speaker Pelosi asserts that health care reform will create four million jobs, we disagree. In our view, the health care bill contains a number of provisions that will eliminate jobs, reduce hours and wages, and limit future job creation.

New Taxes. The bill raises taxes by almost $500 billion over ten years. A significant portion of these tax increases will fall on small business owners, reducing capital and limiting economic growth and hiring.

New and Increased Medicare Taxes. An increase in the Medicare payroll tax included in the bill will affect small businesses employing millions of Americans. Over time, higher payroll taxes will decrease wages for these employees. And a new Medicare tax on investment income such as interest, dividends, and capital gains proposed by President Obama and likely included in the bill will threaten jobs and decrease economic growth.

Employer Mandate. The bill will impose a tax of $2,000 per employee on employers with more than 50 employees that do not provide health insurance. The bill will also tax employers that offer health coverage deemed “unaffordable” by the government. These new taxes on employers will reduce employment or be passed on to workers in the form of lower wages or reduced hours.

In addition to constricting economic growth and reducing employment, the health care bill will increase spending on health care and will increase the cost of health coverage. The new and higher taxes on America’s small businesses and workers included in the bill are detrimental to job creation and economic growth, especially now given the fragile state of the economy. The Congress should instead enact a health care bill that will reduce spending on health care, reduce the cost of health coverage for every American, and that does not harm the economy or cost jobs.

Looks like you're way off the mark, and wrong, too.

 

[Jiro]

eh we've been thru this already. You lost.

 

[saywhatkid]

My personal experience is this: the job market has improved slightly, but it is still brutal to find work. All I know is that I certainly preferred the Clinton years to the Obama years.

 

[Jiro]

I think job market is not as bad as you think. I'm sure there are many jobs around but problem is - handful of people do not want it.

 

[Foxrac]

Small businesses unhappy with health care law, insurance costs

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today released a letter signed by more than 130 economists to the White House explaining how the Democrats’ health care legislation is a job-killer.- http://gopleader.gov/UploadedFiles/Economists_Letter_to_Obama_and_Congress_March.pdf



Looks like you're way off the mark, and wrong, too.

You think that you are always right, troll.

 

[rockin'robin]

Seems to be, or is it's just my observation, that a lot of young people are now "working under the table"??....Restaurants, construction, even some offices.....

 

[jillio]

Small businesses unhappy with health care law, insurance costs

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today released a letter signed by more than 130 economists to the White House explaining how the Democrats’ health care legislation is a job-killer.- http://gopleader.gov/UploadedFiles/Economists_Letter_to_Obama_and_Congress_March.pdf



Looks like you're way off the mark, and wrong, too.

Someone is off the mark, but it isn't the people you are referring to.:roll: Why is it that you think you can wait a couple of days, and then post the same old crap that has been debunked, and get someone to believe it this time around?