Jun 8th, 2009
Take this job & keep it
Good news for a change on the unemployment front: U.S. job losses for May were 175,000 fewer than analysts had forecasted, with 375,000 jobs eliminated. As a comparison, America lost 650,00 jobs in March and another 500,000 in April.
While the unemployment rate is the highest it’s been since 1983 with 9.4% Americans without employment, a glimmer of hope for recovery has shown itself given the slowing rate of job elimination.
As a comparison, the unemployment rate during the Great Depression climbed to 30%. So while financial analysts agree that America still has a long way to go toward recovery, hey – it could be worse.
While it’s rare that one finds the answers to life’s more difficult questions at the bottom of a bottle, the above T-shirt did make us wonder. And so…
Are you kidding? Since when is only loosing 375,000 jobs a “glimmer of hope?” 5 years ago, losing 20,000 jobs created headlines that said that we were entering a recession. Until the One shows me where he got his numbers and proves that he saved jobs, I’m going to chalk it up as he pulled them out of his posterior.
What a joke! If Bush were still President and we lost 375,000 jobs, we would never here the end of it from the liberal media and the like! This business about claiming to have “saved jobs” is impossible to measure. Face it, with the out of control spending path we are on, we are headed towards disaster!
Being one of the many millions of American’s who have lost their job, I feel fortunate to have been able to get another job. I now find myself working on some Saturdays and Sundays. America is in a deep recession, but regardless of current events, we each have to keep grinding to get out of it. When I wake up and go to work each day, I put my blinders on, like a race horse before going into the gate. If we let too much interfere with our logic and spirit, we open ourselves to unhappiness and a sense of failure. I would encourage all Americans to stay focused and think positive. United We Stand.