This is great. Thank you Mr. President. Good luck in November. Where are the jobs?

[CleanLucre]

God forbid the Court and process orchestrated this news for this particular time. People are hurting. People need health care. People need JOBS.

So, this announcement is bittersweet... to American people who once had jobs, paid for health insurance coverage, which they may not have been able to afford to actually USE ... and that's gone. Health issues don't go away when the job and insurance does.

Unemployment benefits are gone. COBRA is gone. Hope is gone. Cities are going bankrupt. The nation is waiting for the plug to be pulled on the debt held by other countries.

Too Little Too Late and Lesser of Evils aren't working. People are dying. The nation is dying.

This is seen by some as a great achievement for the administration and party and by others as a benefit to private insurers ... and a tax on poor people.

The discouragement is understandable!!

Congratulations. Can we now have a JOBS PROGRAM? How about a TAX ON ALL CORPORATIONS. Those who choose to employ American citizens on American shores will receive an exemption. The funds collected by government can go toward a NATIONAL JOBS PROGRAM that will provide infrastructure and community aid. How about GARDENS IN THE SCHOOLS that can EMPLOY AND FEED AND EDUCATE PEOPLE AND KEEP THEM HEALTHY.

Feeding corporate profits doesn't do that.

[cynatnite]

1. You do know that the repukes shot down the job bills President Obama tried to get? n/t

[Swede]

3. This guy is jonesing for pizza.

nt

[cynatnite]

8. Yeah, it seems so. n/t

[CleanLucre]

16. That's very nice

If everyone here is employed and needs met and no worries, that's great

[dionysus]

64. you should be aware that there are a plethora of jobs bilsl that the republican house refuses to

even bring to a vote...

[SidDithers]

23. +1...nt

Sid

[freshwest]

79. More TEOTWAWKI. Yes, GOP/Reaganomics is dying. Didn't work.

[Blue_Tires]

9. +1

[BeyondGeography]

2. Stuck in the House

Wake up.

[Spazito]

4. Huh....

Interesting OP.

[obamanut2012]

42. .....

Agreed.

[WilliamPitt]

5. Ask the House of Representatives

[freshwest]

76. Oh, don't, he's on a roll...

[Hippo_Tron]

90. The Germans?

[freshwest]

92. Which Germans? I missed that part. Wait, here they are:

[WI_DEM]

6. Do you pay any attention? Do you know that the GOP has shot down everything

since they came into power that Obama has tried to do on jobs. Where is your contempt for them?

[CleanLucre]

17. Yes

Almost included a line about how Repubs have made sure nothing got done so they can claim nothing got done, but this got done, so ...

Actually hoped someone would see the positive and the LOGIC applied to same sort of Opt Out Tax on corporations to improve the nations health.

[jillan]

7. Jobs are sitting on Boehner's desk, waiting to be passed while he wastes time on a

fake scandal, and try to overturn the Supreme Court.

[CleanLucre]

19. Let's call Congress Right NOW!!

[LynneSin]

35. Don't forget to save the fetuses - they have higher priority than jobs

[zappaman]

10. Thank you for letting POTUS enjoy 3 seconds of victory before criticizing him once again. n/t

[CleanLucre]

14. Bittersweet

That's why the timing was mentioned. This issue hinges on INCOME

[BlueCaliDem]

26. There is an agreement between both Chambers about the Transportation Bill

that they will vote on before the weekend. This will create 3 MILLION jobs. You didn't hear that?

[obamanut2012]

45. Selective hearing

methinks.

[Schema Thing]

11. They are in your ass.

[CleanLucre]

24. oh no

[maddezmom]

12. yeah and it's all Obama's fault

[BumRushDaShow]

13. The Transportation bill is due for a vote by Saturday

and if that passes and is signed, many many construction jobs come with that.

[CleanLucre]

15. thank you for one comment

that gets it

[WI_DEM]

18. and I'm sure if the GOP blocks it you will consider that Obama's fault too?

[CleanLucre]

36. I congratulated the President. Don't try that $%&@

Let's talk about income so people can benefit from this decision and opt in to health care.

[lillypaddle]

65. hmmmmm ...

You remind me of someone. Name escapes me, though.

[Harmony Blue]

28. This will be a very important vote

and the Republicans are now on the defensive.

[BlueCaliDem]

30. According to Luke Russert, it will positively pass

opening up 3 million jobs. He was positive about it. I believe he said as much on Martin Bashir's show yesterday.

[uponit7771]

20. You do recognize there's a congress in the US government right?

[CleanLucre]

21. you mean the one

owned by lobbyists?

[Pathwalker]

22. No one hires basement dwellers - you have to go LOOK for the jobs.

And don't bother telling me they're not out there - my husband WAS unem[loyed for 14 months. Now, he's got a job - with benefits.

[CleanLucre]

25. that's great

for you. Are you paying attention to the community around you? The country? All right.

[Pathwalker]

29. Yes. I live in the country, surrounded by retirees, who all

have medicare. I can now get insurance, since they can no longer deny the MILLIONS of us with pre-existing conditions. Thank you for your 'concern'.

[CleanLucre]

31. that's great

for you. And you don't need to worry about jobs now.

[emulatorloo]

27. Ask the Republicans. They block Jobs Bills and are busy Sabotaging the economy.

[CleanLucre]

32. How about that corporate tax idea?

[SalviaBlue]

81. How about holding the republiCONS responsible...

not the President.

[LynneSin]

33. President has offered half a dozen different programs to create jobs but...

the house controlled by the GOP won't even bother putting them to a vote.

[progree]

34. I hope Romney will return us to the good 'ol Bush days

{Sarcasm Alert} Look at the pathetic job growth under "Oblamer".

* Under "Obuhmuh" there has been only 27 straight months of private sector job growth.

* Only 2.5 million payroll jobs have been created under Obama since June 2009 (that's when the recession ended according to the NBER, and only 5 months since Obama took office) (thru May 2012 with April and May preliminary) . Bush created 1.1 million payroll jobs in his entire 8 year presidency

* Only 3.1 million private sector jobs were created under Obama since June 2009 (contrast that to 0.7 million private sector jobs lost during the Bush presidency)

As for Bush's record, again, of course, he was doing everything he could to reverse Jimmy Carter's ruinous policies, but them there "Demtards" in Congress were keeping him from doing it. I'm sure Romney will get that straightened out, after all he had the 47th best job creation record as governor of Massachusetts (proving that its possible to do worse, he wasn't 50th you know).

Oh, and the business community is paralyzed by uncertainty about what the next Kenyan socialist edict will befall them. When Bush left office and Obama took office, the S&P 500 was 850. As of noon ET 6/28/12, it is 1315, up a pathetic 55%, and it took over 3 years of "Obummer" policies to make even that small pathetic gain. (That used to be the criteria for a roaring secular bull market, but that was then, this is now, doncha know). Now its true, Bush inherited an S&P 500 of 1343, and left office with it at 850 -- a 37% decline. But that was not for lack of business and investor confidence with Bush, but rather the effects of Carter's Community Reinvestment Act.

S&P 500: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EGSPC+Historical+Prices
Payroll Jobs: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001
Private Sector Employment: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001

[CleanLucre]

38. Good statistics

A job fair this week had a line of hundreds of people waiting to get in all day. They didn't hear this great news.

[progree]

40. Excellent statistics I think, considering Congress has been blocking everything he's trying to do.

You are expecting "Obuhmuh" to reverse 8 years of ruinous Republican policies in just 3 1/2 years with no Republican cooperation? Good luck.

[CleanLucre]

47. wrong

it's 30 years of ruinous Republican policies and WRONG no such expectation was mentioned

[SalviaBlue]

83. "Thank you Mr. President. Good luck in November. Where are the jobs?"

You may want to reword your OP... it indicates that you are asking Mr. President where the jobs are.

Maybe its a grammatical error.

[CleanLucre]

85. That's possible

The OP addressed him at a moment of leadership as figurehead for more reform, not a whipping boy. Sorry too many choose to take it that way. And ignore what needs to be done to get those jobs bills moving.

[progree]

60. There would be a lot more people in the job fair line if 4.3 million jobs had not been created

A job fair this week had a line of hundreds of people waiting to get in all day. They didn't hear this great news.

There would be a lot more people in the job fair line if 4.3 million jobs had not been created in the last 27 months.

{#} Job Loss and Creation - Payroll Jobs

# Payroll Jobs: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001
# Monthly change of above: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
# . . Hint: to see both of the above two together on the same page, go to http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001 and click on the "More Formatting Options" link in the upper right and check the "Original Data Value" and the "1-Month Net Change" checkboxes and click the "Retrieve Data" button halfway down the page on the left
# Private Sector Payroll Employment: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001
# Monthly change of above: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001?output_view=net_1mth
# . . Hint: to see both of the above two together on the same page, go to http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001
and click on the "More Formatting Options" link in the upper right and check the "Original Data Value" and the "1-Month Net Change" checkboxes and click the "Retrieve Data" button halfway down the page on the left

Factoids:
# Under Obama there have been 27 straight months of private sector job growth, totaling 4.3 million jobs (thru May 2012 with April and May preliminary)
# The economy Bush handed to Obama was losing 760,000 jobs a month (the average of the last 3 months of the Bush presidency)
# 2.5 million payroll jobs have been created under Obama since June 2009 (that's when the recession ended according to the NBER (nber.org, the official arbiter of when the economic turning points occur), and only 5 months since Obama took office) (thru May 2012 with April and May preliminary) . Bush only created 1.1 million payroll jobs in his entire 8 year presidency
# 3.0 million private sector jobs were created under Obama since June 2009 (thru May 2012 with April and May preliminary) (contrast that to Bush destroying 0.7 million private sector jobs during his presidency)
# Bush's record: created 1.1 million payroll jobs - by creating 1.8 million government jobs and destroying 0.7 million private sector jobs. ( the actual numbers are, in thousands: 1,080, 1,753, 0,673 ). Yes, it is ironic that a supposed "small government conservative" ended up creating government jobs and destroying private sector jobs.
# The Clinton economy created 22.7 million payroll jobs of which 20.8 million were in the private sector

[klook]

37. Yeah, I know!!

How come the president, with all his Kenyan Messiah superpowers, hasn't just gone barging into Congress and overturned the money-changers' tables?

[MatthewStLouis]

39. Holy flying ****! Our partisan congress has done nothing but OBSTRUCT!

It's easy to try to blame everything on one man. It takes a thinking brain to remember that congress has been no help whatsoever in passing a decent jobs plan. All they want is Obama to fail, at the expense of the economy.

Any economist worth his salt will tell you; we need massive infrastructure spending yesterday!

[CleanLucre]

43. Who said anything about "blame everything on one man"?

That's stupid.

Yes "Our partisan congress has done nothing but OBSTRUCT!" what can we do about it?

[Ikonoklast]

41. Enjoy your stay.

Somehow I get the feeling you don't give two shits about the unemployed seeking jobs.

Like the Newt Gingrich idea about employing school kids as gardeners, though.

Maybe they can mow the lawn and shovel snow to pay their keep, too, huh?

[CleanLucre]

46. BS

don't trip on your assumptions. And FYI there is a lot of community support and benefit for such urban gardening programs including in the schools and BY THE FIRST LADY.

I won't make assumptions about you. Your smugness speaks for itself.

[Ikonoklast]

48. The kids aren't to be employed under Let's Move.

It is a volunteer effort with public subsidies and support, not employees.

Get it right before you blabber on so.

Tick, tock.

[CleanLucre]

50. That's not what I said

quit pitching your BS please

[cliffordu]

44. Got an itch, do ya??

[HangOnKids]

58. Yes indeed it appears the OP does

I love FOX outrage in the morning.

[freshwest]

77. Yes, we do have a few faithful reporters...

[treestar]

49. This will help the economy

Creating a demand for healthcare, which people did not have before.

And help with health care for people who don't have jobs.

[CleanLucre]

51. We'll see if it does

It will help the corporate insurance industry. And potentially more Americans. Here's hoping.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=869779

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=868469

[BBGC]

52. FYI - there was more good job news today, buried under the SCOTUS headlines

The employment situation is getting better, however, the president can not fix the disaster of 8 years of bush in just 4 years. Bush did more damage to the economy than any president has dreamed of in the past several decades.

I am incredibly impressed at the progress the president has made considering how much the republicans and their corporate friends are doing in order to sabotage him.

[CleanLucre]

55. great talking points

[DCBob]

53. The House Rethugs will never pass a jobs bill.

We have to regain the majority in Nov then we can do something substantial.

[CleanLucre]

56. ok

[ecstatic]

54. Replace the teabaggers in congress nt

[tabatha]

57. More jobs have been created under Obama in 3 years than Bush in 8.

[progree]

59. Lots of Job statistics with official sources

{#} Job Loss and Creation - Payroll Jobs

# Payroll Jobs: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001
# Monthly change of above: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
# . . Hint: to see both of the above two together on the same page, go to http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001 and click on the "More Formatting Options" link in the upper right and check the "Original Data Value" and the "1-Month Net Change" checkboxes and click the "Retrieve Data" button halfway down the page on the left
# Private Sector Payroll Employment: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001
# Monthly change of above: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001?output_view=net_1mth
# . . Hint: to see both of the above two together on the same page, go to http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001
and click on the "More Formatting Options" link in the upper right and check the "Original Data Value" and the "1-Month Net Change" checkboxes and click the "Retrieve Data" button halfway down the page on the left

Factoids:
# Under Obama there have been 27 straight months of private sector job growth, totaling 4.3 million jobs (thru May 2012 with April and May preliminary)
# The economy Bush handed to Obama was losing 760,000 jobs a month (the average of the last 3 months of the Bush presidency)
# 2.5 million payroll jobs have been created under Obama since June 2009 (that's when the recession ended according to the NBER, and only 5 months since Obama took office) (thru May 2012 with April and May preliminary) . Bush only created 1.1 million payroll jobs in his entire 8 year presidency
# 3.0 million private sector jobs were created under Obama since June 2009 (thru May 2012 with April and May preliminary) (contrast that to Bush destroying 0.7 million private sector jobs during his presidency)
# Bush's record: created 1.1 million payroll jobs - by creating 1.8 million government jobs and destroying 0.7 million private sector jobs. ( the actual numbers are, in thousands: 1,080, 1,753, 0,673 ). Yes, it is ironic that a supposed "small government conservative" ended up creating government jobs and destroying private sector jobs.
# The Clinton economy created 22.7 million payroll jobs of which 20.8 million were in the private sector

{#} Job Loss and Creation - Unemployment Rate, Labor Force Participation Rate

# Unemployment Rate, from 1948 on: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
# Labor Force Participation Rate from 1948 on: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
(on both of the above, you can change the "From" and "To" dates to whatever you want at the top center pulldown boxes)

# Unemployment rate, seas adjusted
(All values are January unemployment rates, specifically Jan 1989, Jan 1993, Jan 2001, Jan 2009), with the exception of the current unemployment rate under Obama. You don't want to show the Obama unemployment rate when arguing with a greed-banger).
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] Bush I: 5.4% to 7.3%, Change= + 1.9%
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] Clinton: 7.3% to 4.2%, Change= - 3.1%
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] Bush II: 4.2% to 7.7%, Change= + 3.5%
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] Obama: 7.7% to 8.2%, Change= + 0.5% (the last is the May unemployment rate)
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] beg.6/09: 9.5% to 8.2%, Change= - 1.3% (beginning June 2009)
[div style="display:inline; font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] (June 2009, just 5 months after Obama took office, is when the recession ended)

# Under Bush II, the unemployment rate rose by 3.5 pp (percentage points) while the Civilian Labor Force Participation rate fell 1.5 pp: from 67.2% to 65.7% (had the participation rate stayed the same, the unemployment rate would have risen even further). Contrast that to Clinton, where the unemployment rate dropped 3.1 pp while the Civilian Labor Force Participation rate rose by 1.0 pp. Secret information: Under Obama through May 2012 the unemployment rate rose 0.5 pp while the civilian labor force participation rate fell 1.9 pp, from 65.7% to 63.8%

{#} Job Loss and Creation - Unemployment Insurance Claims

# Unemployment insurance initial claims: http://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims.asp

# It peaked at 667,000 initial claims 3/28/09 (2 months after Obama took office) and since then it has shown a steady improvement.

# Myth: those who have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits are not counted as unemployed. If they were counted, the official unemployment rate would be much higher (you often hear this claim from the RepubliCONS when a Democratic president is in the White House, and vice versa).

# Fact: the count of the unemployed and the unemployment rate is not a count of those receiving unemployment benefits, nor is unemployment benefit receiver status factored at all into any of the official unemployment rate statistics (U3, U4, U5, U6, etc.). Rather, the unemployment rate is based on a a survey of 60,000 households chosen at random. See: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm or Google: "Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey"

[Tarheel_Dem]

82. I don't think this particular poster's interested in "statistics". They don't fit the script!

[Skidmore]

61. Why not ask that question of this slacker Republican Congress?

Teabagger Republicans in conjunction with the firmly entrenched bought and paid for old guard, like McConnell, have firmly obstructed any attempts to move legislation forward in that area. Hope is gone, my ass. Change Congress in November.

[spanone]

62. why don't you ask the fucking republicans in congress, that's how they stole the house in 2010

[dionysus]

63. you mean those tons of job programs bills the house won't even bring to a vote? try again...

[CleanLucre]

66. How do we GET ALL THOSE JOBS BILLS MOVING?

Thank you for the great comments. So what next? What would it take to MAKE our side of the aisle get those things done? Bragging about them "sitting there" doesnt help

[progree]

67. Maybe you should try answering your own question. We'd love to know n/t

[CleanLucre]

68. maybe we could collect

all the snotty comments and send a big bag of goo to grease the wheels of gubmint

[progree]

69. Wasn't a snotty comment. We're all wondering what you propose to do besides waste people's time

whining and bashing Obama for not creating more than 4.3 million jobs in the last 27 months (as if he didn't try to do more). And be sure to include all your snotty comments in that big bag of goo.

[CleanLucre]

70. "we're all"

"And be sure to include all your snotty comments in that big bag of goo."
you need a mirror


No one "bashed" Obama. Don't be so ______up.

[progree]

72. You desperately need a mirror. And your OP is one big bashfest and whinefest about Obama.

"And be sure to include all your snotty comments in that big bag of goo."
you need a mirror
No one "bashed" Obama. Don't be so ______up.

[CleanLucre]

74. No it's not

[progree]

91. Sure seems so, and judging from the many other comments, they took it that way too....

"Where's the jobs, Mr. President" is what I read on comments by right-wingers to news articles at places like news.yahoo.com so I get a little upset reading that **** here.

Thank you Mr. President. Good luck in November. Where are the jobs?

Too Little Too Late and Lesser of Evils aren't working.

Congratulations. Can we now have a JOBS PROGRAM?

[progree]

73. Still waiting for your suggestion. And waiting... and waiting...

Title: How do we GET ALL THOSE JOBS BILLS MOVING?

Thank you for the great comments. So what next? What would it take to MAKE our side of the aisle get those things done? Bragging about them "sitting there" doesnt help

and nobody is "bragging" about them sitting there.

Don't be so tardy.

[CleanLucre]

75. no you're not

you're just stirring

[progree]

89. No, just wondering why you posted the OP whinefest / bashfest in the first place.

no you're not.
you're just stirring

What do you expect Obama to do, given that he is president, not a King? (By now you've been informed that the House is in Republican hands and the Senate is far short of a filibuster proof majority).

[B Calm]

71. You should be asking Boner, after all

they did say before the last election to vote for republicans because new jobs was their number 1 priority and they would focus on it like a lazer.

[demwing]

78. One day

that's all you gave one of the most historic victories of any modern President...

What the hell do you think an HCR loss would have done to Obama's chances at re-election?

What the hell would a Mitt Romney presidency done to promote any of the progressive or populist issues you included in you post?

What the hell were you doing while Obama put forward a comprehensive jobs bill, which the House killed?

[SalviaBlue]

80. Where are the jobs? Ask your republiCON representatives.

Really, get a clue.

[glowing]

84. You do understand Pres Obama has been trying to get the Republican Congress to pass

a job's package for a long while now, don't you? They refuse to even consider a vote on a job's package. If the economy sucks, they believe they can win the White House back... They refuse to put the country above politics. Since Pres. Obama won in 2008, the Republicans have been doing everything in their power to stop the President from succeeding... In spite of their evil ways, the economy is sluggishly improving. Despite all the TeaBagging governors and state politicians laying off massive amounts of local and state workers because of budget shortfalls, the private sector seems to be improving in some areas.

With the health care initiative in place, states are going to get some extra help with medicaid funding and will have to hire people to implement the state's plans to comply with the ACA. If we can get a Democratic Congress and Senate again in 2012, we could get a jobs package passed and start building up our infrastructure, investing in technology (green especially), give the younger generation a chance of leaving college without huge sums of loans strapped to their backs, hopefully a progressive tax structure with the richest Americans paying more of their millions and billions back into the system to shore up the debts incurred by the Bush admin reign of terror, have a chance to pass another stimulus bill that would help the state governments fill in their budget shortfalls so that we don't have to lose more teachers, firemen, and police to lay offs. The last stimulus is done spending, and in order to get it passed, 1/2 of the stimulus ended up being tax deductions which isn't the best way to stimulate anything.

If you stick around long enough, you may learn a few things. Then you won't sound like a Fox News talking point.

[CleanLucre]

88. Maybe you're right

it sounds too simple minded to worry thinking of paying a tax and being exempted for being able to afford buying insurance, to those who have no income and not a lot of hope left for the near future.

The nasty voices here all seem pretty comfortable. Thank you for your comment.

[blogslut]

86. uh huh

yeah. sure.

Why does this song sound so familiar?

[Sheepshank]

87. FILTHY LUCRE (is your name a play on this old jabber?)

Not letting your selective memories, harsh my mellow.

[bluestateguy]

93. Satisfied now?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/02/june-jobs-report_n_7712682.html