Comments on: Workers Not Confident In U.S. Job Market

Survey Finds One-Third Of Americans Say They Don't Earn Enough To Make Ends Meet

[missingamerica]

...outsourcing to India. I also lost my job last week, but they actually created a new position for me. I was one of the lucky ones I guess. Loved the job I had...

Posted by azure11 at 12:24 PM : Aug 28, 2008

The great thing? Your company got a tax break for outsourcing your job, and likely is taking another for your "retraining" expenses...

lollll...

[thickredhair]

thickredhair.....no my neighbor is doing rather well and saving money.lol she lives within her means wich more people should try

Posted by mawskrat at 09:56 AM : Aug 28, 2008


I can''t help but notice, u didn''t respond to her job security, hmmm

[missingamerica]

Many older people (Baby-Boomers included) will become wards-of-the-state, thanks to Republican greed.

That''s the GOP future waiting for you.

Posted by mascarponi at 12:19 PM : Aug 28, 2008

I have this vision of really old folks with canes robbing banks...a win-win for them; either they get away with the money, or they get caught and receive three meals a day, housing, and guaranteed health care...

lollll...

[ddaryl1]

History will continue to show Bush as by far the worst president ever.

Carter actually had great ideas. Bush has had none

[missingamerica]

the 3.3% 2nd Q growth....gee, I wonder why? Perhaps it does not fit the ajenda of the Dems. There is no recession, never was. It is all a perception planted by the media to get you little liberalsheeple all in an uproar, so you would have something to rally behind.

Baaaa,baaaaa. [sic - apparently the cry of a chickenhawk]

Posted by bretster7 at 12:03 PM : Aug 28, 2008

Maybe because that 3.3% figure is published by the Commerce Department, which is firmly controlled by an Administration famous for changing and censoring data to ensure that it is "on-message" and has also been know to lie outright (WMDs, "no political bias in DOJ", etc. etc. ad nauseum)?

And those numbers CONVENIENTLY come out just when a Republican Presidential candidate must face the burden of being the apologist for the malfeasance of this Administration?

Ya think that is why nobody is too thrilled about those "numbers"?

[ddaryl1]

as long as there is a epublican in the white house there is less that a 0% chance of worker confidence.

The republicans haved done nothing to help the ocuntry, and they only pander to the welathy.

The 1st thing Bush did was give corps and the welathy tax breaks, that were supposed to help the economy and ccreate scores of new high paying jobs..

Where are those jobs.. if anything things have gotten worse in the last 8 years.


trickle down economics doesn''t not and will never work. You must get the money down low so all of the workers have it to spend, and then it all trickles back up to the top.

we cannot afford 4 more years of being screwed by republicans... that is fact

[screan_name]

History will treat GWB well after all we have a free and democratic Iraq.. Even though Harry Reid Democratic leader said we couldn''''t win and that the surge was a failure before it even started...


Posted by Gilprice at 12:05 PM : Aug 28, 2008
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Democracy? Bush turned a secular state into an Islamic state run by Sharia law.

Brilliant.


lol!

[screan_name]

Don''t worry America. The trickle in the Bush/McCain trickle down economic plan is going reach you any minute now.

If, when the trickle finally reaches you, it looks and smells like urine, that''s because it is.

On the bright side McCain has seven mansions.

Thanks for voting Republican.




lol!

[screan_name]

Don''t worry America Bush has said he''s going to create 500 thousand new jobs before he leaves office.


Unfortunately their all in the Iraqi military and you get to pay their salaries with your taxes.


Thanks for voting Republican and enjoy your time off.



lol!

[bretster7]

Funny how there is no mention on cBS or any of the por Obama MSM outlets of the 3.3% 2nd Q growth....gee, I wonder why? Perhaps it does not fit the ajenda of the Dems. There is no recession, never was. It is all a perception planted by the media to get you little liberalsheeple all in an uproar, so you would have something to rally behind.
Oil is down, the surge that all the "invest in defeat" libs said would fail, has and is working...
Remember the democrat motto "Whats good for America is bad for the party comrade"

Baaaa,baaaaa.

[sly_64]

It''s easy, if you''re lazy, you won''t keep your job or get a job.

[luvny-2009]

Unemployment rate for Texas
listed as #18 and #1 being the least. TEXAS 4.4% hummm under the 5.7% average, interesting!

[luvny-2009]

Can''t blame me I didn''t vote for that ***! Too bad it didn''t trickle down to just those that voted for him but most were the rich and they still are!

[slim1h2o]

I would like to know what percentage of job loss is in Texas, I bet that state has been covered to survive for years

Posted by starleo14672 at 11:33 AM : Aug 28, 2008

Well seems that Texas is heavily into oil, (we know how Bush likes his oil), you know that Texas is well taken care of.

[marcpcbs]

"Workers Not Confident In U.S. Job Market"


Lets see now,

The price of everything just doubled, that%u2019s the same as cutting most peoples incomes in half, and massive layoffs all across the country.

Do you think these things could be causing a drop in the publics confidense?

[slim1h2o]

Listen up Teenagers, if there is any reading these posts.



Do yourself a favor,do not, repeat, do not work for anyone but yourself.

I don''t care what it is, weather it''s working on computers, mowing lawns, building furnature in your parents garage, I don''t care what it is. Just as long it''s a viable trade, or service. If you follow my advice, you will be rewarded. Yes it will take some extra work, and yes, you might not make as much money in the begining, (later you will make much more than your peers) but at the end, you''ll be much more happier.

Spoken from a man that knows.

[starleo146]

Just heard a radio spot in the car this morning: "Are you tired of barely making it in a humdrum, dead-end job that''''s burning you out? These days, 50-80-100,000 a year will guarantee you one thing...survival! So put your sales skills to work at blah-blah-blah..."

I *** near drove off the road. Who makes up this schmidt? Who makes that kind of money? Where did I go wrong?

I''''ll tell you where...I''''m guilty of too many birthdays (over 60 of ''''em) and I live in NE Ohio, where the economy is like it''''s 1938...if you''''re a white, male, white-collar boomer, you''''ll be lucky to have anyone seriously about a job at all, after they''''ve interviewed 300 other folks for that job paying 10 bucks an hour and no bennies. Part time.
Can you say call center? keep smilin'''' while you''''re dialin''''.

Shoot me now.

Posted by Grizzster at 10:53 AM : Aug 28, 200

Your reward for voting for Bush in 2004. It was a design by them to force out the unions, lower the wage, to an all time low, and send more jobs overseas. He did it in Michigan, Pennsylvania, I would like to know what percentage of job loss is in Texas, I bet that state has been covered to survive for years

[credibility2]

The job market in the Chicago-area is hideous. Unemployment is over 7.5%. It doesn''t matter if you have experience or education. Businesses are sitting on resumes for well over a month. Many are skittish about doing any hiring because of the upcoming election. Having one''s own business isn''t the answer either, because it costs money to promote it and markets to market it to, and if those markets are suffering, like most are, the prospects of selling them one''s goods or services is remote. I''d consider fast food or even retail, but have enough physical problems to limit doing this type of work, and not enough physical problems to be considered disabled. The temp market is also hurting and companies aren''t hiring temps because of the cost factor.

[jamesetling]

No question most people''s standard of living is gradually decreasing. And most people don''t want to accept that it won''t be going back to what it may have been 10 years ago. Two suggestions for young people who are not sure how to proceed. First, don''t have any kids at all. Get yourself fixed. Second, lower your expectations about retirement. Nothing wrong with planning to have a simple home paid off by retirement age. OK to live a simple life there. Learn how to grow your own veggies, so you won''t starve. All this stuff about having two homes and travelling around as a retiree. Forget it.

[anitaymoore]

I''m 40, and I work in the airline industry...in order to KEEP my decent paying job with decent benefits (I''m fortunate, I know) I''ve had to constantly update my skills. I don''t just mean occasionally either, I have to stay on the cutting edge, those who don''t in this industry (and I''m not talking the guys/gals in the unions who actually work on the planes)...go by the wayside quickly, because there is ALWAYS someone who wants to take your place.

It''s so sad how competitive the job market has become today, highly skilled people have to fight to keep a job because they can easily be replaced by someone who NEEDS a job and would most likely work for less...and employers KNOW IT.