[DBCJR]

Obama brags about lowering unemployment. Now the rest of the story.... We are at an historic low of able bodied people that are willing to work, who have not given up on a job search. Factoring in these who have dropped out, our unemployment rate is 17-20%.

[Vaduz]

Unemployment rate is 17-20% and it isn’t going to improve with Obama.
Only 10% of the jobs in the USA are manufacturing and he hasen’t created one job,his numberes are 100%BS.

[Chewbarkah]

It’s past time for people to demand that both Presidents and candidates talk gross numbers of real jobs and real total payroll, not meaningless rates.
He/she who provides sensible answers to the following, and a plan to get the job done, MIGHT deserve to be president.

1. How many people need paying jobs, making what, to resurrect the US economy? Now, break that down by categories, industries, etc.
2. What is stopping this from happening?
3. How do we stop preventing employment?

Hint: more government, dependency, employer/insurance mandates, and wealth transfer are not the answer.

[familyop]

Lay off local regulators. They’re not doing anything now but taking their high incomes and benefits from high property taxes. There are virtually no new single family houses built in most locales.

Eliminate planning and building regulations. Buyers hire private inspectors anyway.

Eliminate zoning regulations against new, tiny manufacturing starts in sparsely populated rural areas.

[Mike Darancette]

They are applying for disability in record numbers.