8.5% really- that sounds Good to a Michigander. Hell folks you ain’t seen nothing yet- Stop whining until your numbers get up to double digits for years (decades).Want to see the ‘benefits’ of Trickle Down- Let me show you around Detroit and Flint. How long has the Term ‘Rust Belt’ been around?
Let me know when the ‘Red States’ hit 12%- I’ll throw a fucking party!

Living in Michigan - with unemployment higher than anywhere, we know that the middle class is really losing ground fast…and Obama’s election hasn’t had any effect on the blood letting for the working class. I propose we start putting the spotlight on the companies that are sending our jobs off shore….just found this tidbit about another US company, PORCH LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT, Los Angeles, California,(founders are Bruce Johnson & William Baumann) outsourcing to China off the Xiang Chinese Media site:
“Special Report: Global Financial Crisis
  CANNES, France, April 3 (Xinhua)—China has made a record high worth of deals at this year’s MIPTV, the world’s largest audiovisual market, amid the ongoing global economic downturn.
  The five-day MIPTV trade fair ended its 46th edition on Friday, where China had its largest delegation ever, with more than 40 companies striving to break into the European and American market for television programs.
  China scored 6.49 million U.S. dollars of deals at MIPTV, the highest since it began participating in the fair in 1990, CITVC senior marketing director Cheng Chunli told Xinhua.
  CCTV Animation announced an agreement with U.S. Porch Light Entertainment to develop and co-produce a pre-school animation series.
  The deal marks the first collaboration on a long-format television animation series between the Chinese public broadcaster and a U.S. company.”
Porch Light also operates under the names PorchLight, Ocean Park Pictures/Ocean Park Home Entertainment and PorchLight Inspire.
Why don’t we start shining a Spotlight on companies and their owners that are sending our jobs off to China and anywhere else cheap labor can be found. I’m not a protectionist - if US companies sent jobs overseas and insisted that overseas employees were paid living wages, allowed to organize, had breaks, lunch, maternity leave, etcetera…we could be creating a viable middle class around the world - instead of destroying the middle class in America!
Any ideas about how we get the word out?

Here’s the real news: Our new president is not doing a single thing to put Americans back to work. He’s too busy promoting the next world war…..

Actually the unemployment rate is more like 15%——many people aren’t counted.  But not to worry, pretty soon all those foreign companies will be out-sourcing positions back to the USA——of course it would help if you could speak gujarati.

At this rate, what’s to stop the US unemployment rate from hitting 12.1 percent by yearend, GM and Chrysler going bankrupt, many trillions more taxpayer dollars for Wall Street bonuses? The looting of the treasury by the bankers, their politicians, and corporate TV media continues (they laugh among themselves and live lavishly), and the people get laid off, so sad!