As of January 2010 I will no longer be employed by this company.
This company I have been trying to leave for some time. (if you’ve read the older posts, you’d see)
And I’m pretty fine with it. I wish I had more than a couple months to find employment, and I wish people were hiring.
Perhaps what I need to do is go to my government and look up all the thousand of jobs they’re creating because as far as I’ve seen, there is nothing that will provide the kind of income I need for a family.
Everyone is looking for part-time and no benefits.
Is it time to start pushing for Congress to act? People (Conservatives) are up in arms against this Health Care Reform but I’d like to hear them and what they have to say if they ever lose their coverage or are unable to afford it.
And the truth is, over the past ten months, I’ve often had to report distressing news during what has been a difficult time for our country.
I wonder why he had to add, “and the truth is”. It almost makes it seem as if most of the other stuff he’s talking about isn’t the truth.
It’s like when someone says, “I’ll be honest with you … ” Like what they’ve already said isn’t them being honest.
We learned that the economy grew for the first time in more than a year and faster than at any point in the previous two years.
This is good news right?
It is easy to forget that it was only several months ago that the economy was shrinking rapidly and many economists feared another Great Depression.
You yourself continually used that phrase, Mr. President – you and your team were/are alarmists like every other politician.
Now, economic growth is no substitute for job growth.
That, my friends, is truth in it’s purest form.
And we will likely see further job losses in the coming days, a fact that is both troubling for our economy and heartbreaking for the men and women who suddenly find themselves out of work.
Like me; I will be out of a job come January 2010.
Based on reports coming in from across America – as shovels break ground, as needed public servants are rehired, and as factories whir to life – it is clear that the Recovery Act has now created and saved more than one million jobs.
That’s why the Recovery Act was designed to help small businesses expand and create jobs.
Is that why most of the money went to large banks and Wall Street? Seems to me that the Recovery Act was designed to bail out the greedy lawless CEOs and major corporations.
I also announced that we’ll be taking additional steps through our Financial Stability plan to make more credit available to the small local and community banks that so many small businesses depend on
So small businesses may be under his control as well?
I see this administration sticking its finger into places where it shouldn’t. There are some aspects of life that the federal government should stay away from. It doesn’t need to own everything.
I have a feeling that President Obama’s team may take the credit for the success of the latest scare movie, Paranormal Activity and how it owns Hollywood.
Over and over again. We’re hearing the same mumbo-jumbo from a different President. The difference: Bush was war on terror; Obama is war on health care. All these Presidents do is repeat and repeat and repeat.
What’s that saying if you say something loud enough and long enough, you’ll start to believe it?
When I took office eight months ago, our nation was in the midst of an economic crisis unlike any we’d seen in generations.
The President cannot shake this anti-Bush mentality. This is your administration mucking things up now sir. Don’t give us this trash about what you inherited eight years ago. We’re sick of hearing you bemoan President Bush.
But yesterday’s report on September job losses was a sobering reminder that progress comes in fits and starts, and that we will need to grind out this recovery step by step.
Backpedaling after promising the people that recovery would happen quickly once your plan was in place. This is the second thing we’re sick of hearing repeated.
And I won’t let up until those who seek jobs can find them; until businesses that seek capital and credit can thrive; and until all responsible homeowners can stay in their homes.
This is different, he used to say he wouldn’t rest until the jobs come back. And yet he has time to play Oliver and beg the Olympic Commission to send them to Chicago. (Which failed horribly) But I saw that trial as our President attempting to bring in the big bucks which ties into him finding the resources.
Rising health care costs are undermining our businesses, exploding our deficits, and costing our nation more jobs with each passing month.
Once this reform passes through Congress (and we all know it will) what will be the next thing that is undermining this country that President Obama will save us from? I can guarantee there will be something we will “have to be afraid of”.
This has become the administration of the 21st Century – Pop Culture edition.
The first meeting of the G-20 nations in April came at the height of the global financial crisis – a crisis that required unprecedented international cooperation to jumpstart the world’s economies and help break the downward spiral that enveloped all our nations.
Jumpstart the largest banks and Wall Street – the main culprits of this fiasco.
in effect, a five-month checkup to review the steps each nation has taken – separately and together – to break the back of this economic crisis.
So there will be a lot of accusations flying around about who isn’t doing enough.
In February, we enacted a Recovery Act, providing relief to Americans who need it, preventing layoffs, and putting Americans back to work.
From my view, the only Americans who were provided relief were the ones who caused this mess. And as far as putting Americans back to work, I’m losing my job!
And we’ve challenged other nations to join us
Like China; we’ve asked them to pretty much own our sorry excuse for a federal government.
we can now say that we have stopped our economic freefall.
Yet unemployment is at an all-time high and spending is out of this world.
Not surprisingly, lobbyists for big Wall Street banks are hard at work trying to stop reforms that would hold them accountable and they want to keep things just the way they are.
Yet you bend over backwards to give them the money they never should have gotten in the first place.
Yesterday, we received a report showing that job losses have slowed dramatically compared to just a few months ago.
And yet the jobless rate is the highest it has ever been. How do those two numbers rectify?
and that many of the banks that borrowed money at the height of the financial crisis are now returning it to taxpayers with interest.
Oh really? I’m afraid I haven’t seen any returns. Sounds like President Obama is channeling President Bush with this Pie-in-the-sky pep talk…
That’s why it is so important that we remain focused on speeding our economic recovery.
And what is the President’s definition of “speeding our economic recovery”? Is there a measurable limit?
we certainly cannot go back to an economy based on inflated profits and maxed-out credit cards; the cycles of speculative booms and painful busts; a system that put the interests of the short-term ahead of the needs of long-term.
Dare I think to even write out the “S” word?
We have to revive this economy and rebuild it stronger than before.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the million-dollar economy. Actually it’s more like multi-trillion dollar, right?
I’ve been moaning and complaining about this job ever since I began this blog. I was hoping I would have moved on by now – both physically and emotionally.
But here I am; in the same location, doing the same thing. But here’s the catch! They’re cutting my hours and salary in half and wanting me to do the same amount of work.
I want out of this place!
I thought I would be working with a new company and new faces…I don’t get it.
To top it off, my spouse’s job is going away. Well that’s not exactly true – they’re taking away the salary.
So here we are Mr. President Obama. You promised us recovery! You promised jobs! You promised a better America and all that you have to show for your promises is higher debt and higher unemployment.
Can you imagine what the outcry would’ve been like if this had happened under President Bush?!?! As it is, we’re seeing your approval ratings plummet. You’re finally seeing how people cannot stomach promises that aren’t kept.
You’re dragging this country under with your recovery plan and you actually think things are getting better.
You’re insulting to the American people – correction, the American people who are wise enough to see a fraud.
Harsh words for a President? Maybe but until I see the results you promised, I’ll be on your back like a crack cocaine monkey. When those results do come in, I’ll be more than happy to eat crow and spend however long apologizing.
Here we go with another Weekly Address that you can read here.
Today, I’d like to talk with you about a subject that I know is on everyone’s mind, and that’s the state of our economy.
As opposed to every other weekly address right?
The report showed that in the first few months of this year, the recession we faced when I took office was even deeper than anyone thought at the time.
He’s setting himself up as the savior of the recession…here it comes…
the economy has done measurably better than expected. And many economists suggest that part of this progress is directly attributable to the Recovery Act.
Tada! Our hero.
putting people back to work rebuilding and renovating roads, bridges, schools, and hospitals.
I may be wrong, but I haven’t seen anyone doing this kind of work in my state.
when we receive our monthly job report next week, it is likely to show that we are continuing to lose far too many jobs in this country.
What? Does this mean your plan has failed? You were supposed to save our jobs.
And I won’t rest until every American who wants a job can find one.
There’s your quote. President Obama will not get any sleep for the four to eight years he is in office.
eventually, businesses will start growing and hiring again.
After promoting the “great work” he did oversees, President Obama says,
my thoughts are on the state of our economy at home. And that’s what I want to talk to you about today.
Hasn’t the majority of these addresses been about your thoughts on our economy here at home?
At the time, we were losing, on average 700,000 jobs a month.
You know the problems with averages is they are skewed to serve the one speaking about them.
We also passed the largest and most sweeping economic recovery plan in our nation’s history.
Please read this as, “Largest debt in the nation’s history”.
The Recovery Act wasn’t designed to restore the economy to full health on its own
Please read this as, “So don’t blame me that things haven’t picked up like I promised they would”.
And it’s led to new jobs building roads, bridges and other infrastructure projects, thousands of which are only beginning now. In the months to come, thousands more projects will begin, leading to additional jobs.
Then why is it that the national unemployment rate is going up? Where are these new jobs? What is the basis of the NUR? And a few months? In a few months people will be out of everything.
I realize that when we passed this Recovery Act, there were those who felt that doing nothing was somehow an answer.
I don’t remember anyone saying they felt doing nothing was the answer; I do remember people saying your plan was not the answer. They wanted to act, just not in such an extreme way.
Today, some of those same critics are already judging the effort a failure although they have yet to offer a plausible alternative.
Which is what the Democrats did when the Republicans were in power. It’s always a give and take with the two parties. You blame the other for the tricks you did in the past yourselves.
And the rest of the address is more of the same old blather we’ve heard ever since President Obama took office so I won’t dive into it.
Below is our take on the address President Obama gave this past weekend. You can read it here.
I want to take a moment today to reflect on what I believe is the meaning of this distinctly American holiday.
Here we go. Are you ready to read what he believes the meaning of July 4th is for The United States?
That is the spirit we are called to show once more. We are facing an array of challenges on a scale unseen in our time. We are waging two wars. We are battling a deep recession. And our economy – and our nation itself – are endangered by festering problems we have kicked down the road for far too long: spiraling health care costs; inadequate schools; and a dependence on foreign oil.
He is basically calling our challenges today similar to those the founders faced. How pathetic! And let me say this here and now: the economic troubles are now the fault of The Obama Administration. Too long his team has pointed the finger to the past and said, “They’re the reason we’re like this”. Well we’ve approved of your so-called recovery plan and where has it taken us so far? I’ve seen the unemployment number JUMP! We’re going in the wrong direction and spending more money doing it. Stop blaming the past Mr. President! We’re sick of hearing it from your mouth!
Now is the time to lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity. Now is the time to revamp our education system, demand more from teachers, parents, and students alike, and build schools that prepare every child in America to outcompete any worker in the world.
Translation: I have nothing new to say. I have no new agenda, no words of wisdom so I’ll continue to be like President Bush and repeat myself until I get all of you to believe it.
No more talk. No more delay.
He said it. Right there. The man who only knows how to talk just laid down the gauntlet. Take the pill of your own advice, sir.
I must be in a bad mood because I have nothing but criticism for our President today. Start giving us the results you promised or your job will be over come 2012!
