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- Those that think that unions are destroying jobs and costing too much money for the corporations should learn the facts. There is almost a direct correlation of the drop in union jobs and the amount of national income that goes to the middle class. ALL of us have suffered as a result of the loss of unions.
So now you know that is is just exactly the opposite of what you have been claiming. - Reply to this comment
- The private sector has failed miserably in America. Even after massive corporate welfare and tax entitlements for the Top 1%, they have continued to conspire for American workers and families to fail. Most of them must be Republicons.
Anyway, that is why OUR government that used to be selected by We the 99%, must stand up for us. And if they won't we need to do it ourselves. The 99% run 70% of the economy and we can shut it down if and when we want. I guess it has to get somewhat worse first. Maybe after Wall Street appoints Mitler. - Reply to this comment
- Good lord, has the Rush/Fox contingent totally lost touch with how things work?
People who sell stuff couldn't give two hoots whether your paycheck comes from the private sector or the public sector; they want to know whether you're going to buy their stuff...whether that stuff is groceries or hardware or personal care products or dry cleaning or health care or legal services. If you can't buy stuff cuz you're laid off, you're equally useless to the people who sell stuff no matter whether the private sector or the public sector laid you off.
The point Obama -- and O'Malley -- were making is that the private sector has been adding jobs for more than two years, but the public sector, thanks to GOP intransigence, has been subtracting jobs for most of that time. That's bad in terms of what we SHOULD be investing in education and public safety and other critical forms of public investment, but it's ALSO bad in terms of the people who sell stuff, because they have fewer customers to sell stuff to.
It's simple economics: when there isn't enough DEMAND, capital won't invest to produce more SUPPLY. And until there IS enough DEMAND, the economy won't "take off." - Reply to this comment
- There is not one viable reason for an economy based on public sector job growth. The whole argument is for the naive and illformed populace to digest. Anyone else will just laugh at the silliness of a public sector employment growth concept!
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- The problem with the public sector is congress! 20% to 30% of federal employees could be laid off without a significant impact on quantity of work *IF* congress changed the laws on who gets laid off. Currently, seniority plays too big a part in deciding who is laid off first. The law should be changed mandating employees who only have a 'satisfactory' (ie, 2.0) rating are the first to be laid off regardless how many years of seniority they have. Any federal employee can get a 2.0 rating so long as they show up at the office. Good ones get more than a 2.0 rating.
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- O'malley and the Illinois Governor are two Democrat Governors
who Have and are Are Raising Tax's on Taxpayers BIG TIME.
What a shock that he thinks Government Needs More Government Workers for us to pay for - forever and forever.
-How Much More in Benefits, Pensions and Pay do they Make ore than us -- 25% to 50%. - Reply to this comment
- Public unions are a drag on taxpayers and the economy.
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- Many in the private sector used to have defined benefit pensions, now they do not. Now they want to take that away from public workers. Do you notice a trend here? We ALL used to have a good standard of living and now it is the wealthiest 10% that do. Just project that out a few more years and you start to see the picture.
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- Get a clue lefties, It's Obama and the Democrats dragging the private sector down and the entire country.
No spin or other left or Dem BS can change the facts.
The Dems and left have to talk themselves into believing their nonsense. Their BS definitely isn't working on the majority of Americans from the mood of the country. - Reply to this comment
- While "doing fine" is in the eye of the beholder, Obama was correct that the job picture in the private sector is brighter than in the public sector. Since the recession officially ended in June 2009, private companies have added 4.2 million jobs or 27 straight months job growth; corporate profits have risen 58% since 2009; and the stock market has increased from 6,700 low to 12,500 point today. In contract, we're losing job in public sector due to GOP congress eliminate $100 billion aid from the president stimulus package to states, and that's why you see job lost in teacher, police officers, firefighter, etc. at the state and local level, which slash 601,000 jobs.
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