For second straight month, unemployment remains at 8.2% (June's numbers)

[ailsagirl]

Just heard on the news. I have no additional info

[jberryhill]

1. How can "June unemployment" be steady for two months?

It felt like June was kind of long this year, but I didn't think it was that long.

[DCKit]

4. Too funny, too quick. I'll bet you'd be fun to hang out with. nt

[ailsagirl]

7. This is serious stuff nt

[jberryhill]

9. Expressing oneself clearly is always serious

[WI_DEM]

2. Not good news. We just aren't creating the jobs needed in this economy

thanks to the GOP. Now if Obama could convince the American people that GOP obstructionism has had a lot to do with these poor numbers.

[ailsagirl]

3. Jobs are being created...

but as you said, if the hateful repukes in congress would work with us, the UI numbers would go down so fast it would make our heads spin. Incompetent, spiteful imbeciles.

[Rosanna Lopez]

6. Where some of the responsibility lies

Unfortunately Obama and the Democrats are responsible for some of this. This all goes back to the loss of the House of Representatives in 2010, and how it is now causing the fallout. The Republicans are using their control of the House to slow down the economy which is part of their plan, but Obama and the Democrats are responsible for letting them hijack the debate in 2009 and 2010 and win back the House.

The House should have remained Democratic. If it had, Obama would probably been in a stronger position right now because the Jobs Bill and other legislation could be passed.

[flamingdem]

5. Mitt gained on this one

he wants to hammer on this and wipe out the ACA win

[ailsagirl]

8. Team Obama still has a ton

of heavy artillery to employ. This is NOT the death knell by a long shot!!

[flamingdem]

10. Imagine if the media was really on Obama's side

Mitt's ratings would be really in le toilette

[Cosmocat]

11. We absolutely ARE creating the jobs

they just are not being created at enough of a pace to off set the republican purge of public sector jobs - education in particular.

How about their scumbag tactic of forcing the USPS to fully fund its retirement program to put it underwater?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-23/u-s-postal-service-to-cut-4-9-of-jobs-by-closing-almost-half-of-plants.html

They know what they are going, and it has dual benefits - they get to surpress the economic and employment numbers to try to defeat President Obama AND they get to destroy public employment so that the people who run the party can raid the tax payer piggy bank.

What takes the place of the USPS?

Why, UPS, Fed Ex ... ect.