CBS/NY Times Poll: The Best Jobs Are Behind Us?

By: Vaughn Ververs
Topics: Polls

Almost half of all Americans believe that the best years are in the past when it comes to good jobs according to a CBS News/New York Times poll being released today. Forty eight percent of adults surveyed said they believe the country's best years are in the past on the jobs front while 43 percent said the best times are still to come. But Americans are only slightly less optimistic as they were in 1996 when 44 percent said the best times for jobs was behind us and 46 percent said the best was to come.

When it comes to jobs, over half of adults said they were concerned about someone in their household losing a job, with 28 percent of them saying they are very concerned. Forty five percent said they were not concerned and those with incomes under $50,000 per year said they were more concerned than those earning more money.

The entire CBS News/New York Times poll will be released at 6:30pm ET this evening. Watch the CBS Evening News for the results and visit CBSNews.com to see the entire poll then.

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by giantrobot2 April 5, 2008 4:24 PM EDT: Romney has ZERO financial skills.

This guy couldnt even run a Lemonaide stand. He lost over $100 million dollars of American''s hard earn money spending lavishly. Sure if he knows how to SPEND money, but he sure can''t SAVE money.

Mike Huckabee on the other hand is extremelly smart. He spend only 1/10th of what Romney spent and he still got more delegates per dollar. Mike knows how to run a "Lean government", plus he has 10 years running a government which he left it with a $700 million surplus. Mike Huckabee is naturally gifted in Financial skills.

If I was the CEO of a company, there is no doubt in my mind that I would pick Mike Huckabee as my Financial advisor. Why in the world would I want to pick Romeny who lost $100 million and has little sales to go with it?

Any Havard or Yale CEO on Wall Street would pick Mike Huckabee for his financial skills. CEO''s and Wall Street is not in the bussiness of losing money, they know a smart Finacial advisor when they see one.

Mike Huckabee can turn around this economy in a heart beat. He can get the government to operate on 1/10th of what it''s running on now and still get things done. That''s using the tax payers money very wisely.; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 April 4, 2008 7:09 PM EDT: What are your qualifications young man?

Well, I got into Yale on a legacy acceptance.
I basically partied my way through school and continue to party until about age 40.
I was a pilot (in training) but never really finished my commitment to the air national guard. You know, the party thing%u2026they wanted to substance test me.
I ran a string of oil companies bankrupt.
I ran a baseball team for a while, made some great trades, and stole home base from some little land owners to build a shiny new stadium.
I was the Governor of the great state of Texas! Thanks to my Father, Karl Rove and Tom Delay.

Is there anything else you need to know?

No, I think you%u2019ll do just fine Mr. Bush.; Reply to this comment


by mudrose-2009 April 4, 2008 6:06 PM EDT: Posted by forthepeopl1

Pimping poverty and victimization is the responsible thing to do that it takes the Fed to have to bailout a bank for it''s irresponsible practices and borrowers who have no common sense not to see a freight train coming at them because they are equally irresponsible - so the rest of the nation has to pick up the tab for predators - borrowing and lending. Because of such irresponsibility it jeapardized the credit market because people started defaulting on their credit cards. It was necessary. But hey, let''s have B. Hussen Obama take a crack at our free markets. He''d be a great president. It
would be like applying for a job in the private sector. What are your qualifications young man - I have none, but I want to be CEO. Gee that sounds just like you.; Reply to this comment


by forthepeopl1 April 4, 2008 5:57 PM EDT: I WANT HIS JOB,

US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
Has Already Received His PERSONAL BAIL-OUT

Under Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson%u2019s .. Former leadership at
Goldman Sachs, the company has been instrumental to its penetration of Western
capital and other markets. - - Henry Paulson was vastly effective in Communist
China%u2019s .. Interests and enabling their access to Western economic assistance
and high technology

In late January 2006, Goldman Sachs purchased a stake in the Industrial and
Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China%u2019s biggest bank, for $2.58 billion
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson''''''''s .. Personal stake .. In this transaction
was $25 million

A PERSONAL BAIL OUT for : Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and His
Criminal Friends

(Mar 27, 2008 (ruters.com) BBC) ... White House Resists Pleas for .. Mortgage Bailout
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As clamor rises for federal help for homeowners
who face losing their homes .. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson .. Seems
to be digging in heels against the effort.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson sounded a tougher note than ever against any
possibility of bailout for individual mortgage holders, singling out the growing number
going "under water" as their loans exceed the diminishing value of their properties.; Reply to this comment


by forthepeopl1 April 4, 2008 5:56 PM EDT: US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
Has Already Received His PERSONAL BAIL-OUT

Under Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson%u2019s .. Former leadership at
Goldman Sachs, the company has been instrumental to its penetration of Western
capital and other markets. - - Henry Paulson was vastly effective in Communist
China%u2019s .. Interests and enabling their access to Western economic assistance
and high technology

In late January 2006, Goldman Sachs purchased a stake in the Industrial and
Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China%u2019s biggest bank, for $2.58 billion
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson''''''''s .. Personal stake .. In this transaction
was $25 million

A PERSONAL BAIL OUT for : Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and His
Criminal Friends

(Mar 27, 2008 (ruters.com) BBC) ... White House Resists Pleas for .. Mortgage Bailout
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As clamor rises for federal help for homeowners
who face losing their homes .. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson .. Seems
to be digging in heels against the effort.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson sounded a tougher note than ever against any
possibility of bailout for individual mortgage holders, singling out the growing number
going "under water" as their loans exceed the diminishing value of their properties.; Reply to this comment


by jcstras April 4, 2008 5:27 PM EDT: You bet, the best jobs are behind us...as long as Corporate America keeps putting their CEO''s ahead of their employees! One example..American Airlines..That blood sucking *** Gerard Arpy expected everyone to make all of those horrendous sacrifices..giving up pay raises, vacation, sick leave, etc, and than he takes his 65.5 milion dollar bonus! Some sacrifice he has made, right? He is just one example. THis goes on in every company. And they say it is because of the insight and wisdom, right! My kid could run most of these companies the way those idiots work. I am just quoting Mr. Lee Iacocca, who just happans to be one of the best CEO'' to ever have lived. The Problem boils down to Corporate Greed. We need some some Corporate Generosity for a change. I can''t help but feel that if the employee is put first...where he belongs..things would return to where they belong.
By the way...I do hope some CEO''s have read this and are highly offended.. than maybe you will know what it feels like to be offended..you ***!!!; Reply to this comment


by mudrose-2009 April 4, 2008 5:27 PM EDT: Mudrose:

There is no free market. And the Republicans want to expand the powers of the FED, which has been destroying the free market for years.

And if you have been a prudent saver, living within your means and putting away for retirement, the Fed has been steadily sabotaging you by making every dollar in your bank account worth less and less.

It doesn''''t matter if the Democrats win because the Republicans are as anti-free market as the Democrats.

Are you so very sure you don''''t WANT the government controlling your every move...? Because most people really are too fearful to vote for LIBERTY!
Posted by carolm62

Your last sentence is the most damning and quite frankly misleading. You can thank the Democrats for dumbing down education, opportunity, giving us nothing but regulation and more regulation. You can also thank the Democrats for pimping victimization and poverty. After all the government programs that have been instituted in this country in my lifetime, there never seems to be any solution or end, just and endless stream of more poverty and hence, victimization. The Democrats have had their way for 40 years - liberty isn''t an issue. The people simply don''t care because they have been taught not to care and are complaisant.; Reply to this comment


by conspiracygirl April 4, 2008 4:19 PM EDT: Mudrose:

There is no free market. And the Republicans want to expand the powers of the FED, which has been destroying the free market for years.

And if you have been a prudent saver, living within your means and putting away for retirement, the Fed has been steadily sabotaging you by making every dollar in your bank account worth less and less.

It doesn''t matter if the Democrats win because the Republicans are as anti-free market as the Democrats.

Are you so very sure you don''t WANT the government controlling your every move...? Because most people really are too fearful to vote for LIBERTY!; Reply to this comment


by mudrose-2009 April 4, 2008 1:56 PM EDT: Well, I don''t think so. Now consider this. If the Democrats take the White House, the people will be given Government Worker Programs after Government takes control of the free market. People will have security in their jobs with no opportunity to ever rise about their status. Education will merely be an indoctrination process since Government will take over the schools and people will live and die by Government mandate. Choices will no longer be given and people will no longer expect them. So why are you complaining the best is yet to come.; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 April 4, 2008 1:48 PM EDT: Wow I don''''t think I have ever seen a more ridiculous set of ignorant comments in my life. Don''''t tell me. Most of you are arts students stuck working at Starbucks.
Posted by cthulhu73 at 06:42 PM : Apr 03, 2008

Ignorant is as ignorant does, my mamma always used to say...

was that a viente?; Reply to this comment