I’m not worried, Bush wanted to privatize Social Security for current & future generations benefits. Can you imagine? The Republican answer. Take the blame GOP, it was your mess without a doubt. Twist it, turn it, no matter what you say. Your party created this mess and the wars, like Bush’s old man created Somalia just before a Dem President took over, then you try to shift the blame to the Dems. This Prez at least has the mental capability to do good things, if he can get past the cleanup after the GOP. Rule of thumb, never follow an elephant, you will need more than a shovel to clean the mess.

All the bailouts and giveaways were a sham and have not fixed anything. The Democratic party cannot lead. Obama is not qualified to be president of the United States. Any blue collar person can tell you this country is in a lot worse trouble than any politician or news reporter can see, and it’s not going to get better.

When the “At Will” clause is abolished and employee rights are reformed and re-instated, unemployment can be fixed. Employers have abused this clause, particularly the large corporations, it is one of the main reasons unemployment is high and the economy is slow to recover. Wall Street gets large blame also, but if it is made more difficult to improve a profit margin by reducing the payroll without consequence, why should an employer care? Not the answer, but another direction which can help to repair the economy and healthcare.

When is the last time your government told you the
“truth” about anything? I’m 64 and I’ll be damned if I
can remember.

The recession is over for the “ownership society”.

Wall $treet.

And yet bernanke says the recession is over and who knows better than he that is is or isn’t, besides the almost DOUBLE figures unemployed?

Eternal vigilance out the window, we deserve what we got.

The time has come for Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress to dust off FDR’s playbook from our last Depression(we are definately in a Depression) and begin bringing back the banking regulations and The WPA that saved our country from the same destructive situation we are experiencing now.

bojan1 you are a racist asshole.

The BLS needs to change how they calculate the “unemployment rate” so that they can be more honest.
“The real unemployment rate? Try 15.6%
The official US jobless rate, now 8.5%, excludes millions of people—among them those who have given up on finding work and those forced into working fewer hours than they’d like. (also, those suckered into “private contracting”—that part mine)

By Catherine Holahan
MSN Money
An 8.5% unemployment rate is unmistakably bad. It’s the highest rate since 1983—a year that saw double-digit unemployment, nearly 30 commercial bank failures and more than 15% of Americans living below the poverty line.

But the real national unemployment rate is far worse than the U.S. Department of Labor’s March figure, announced today, shows. That’s because the official rate doesn’t include the 3.7 million-plus people who are reluctantly working only part time because of the poor labor market. And it doesn’t include the workers who have given up scouring want ads for seemingly nonexistent jobs.

When those folks are added to the numbers, the unemployment rate rises to 15.6%. In March 2008, that number was 9.3%”

So, the Dem excuse is, “we’re getting worse more slowly”...