Job outlook hits worst-ever level

Market Watch ^ | 9/8/09

[FromLori]

Employers' hiring plans for the upcoming fourth quarter dropped to their lowest level in the history of Manpower's Employment Outlook Survey, which started in 1962.

A net -3% of employers said they'll hire in the fourth quarter, down from -2% in the third quarter, on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the Milwaukee-based firm's survey of more than 28,000 employers. Before this year, the survey's previous low point was a net 1% hiring outlook for the third quarter of 1982.

[MNDude]

can’t be true. the recession ended a month ago.

[Achilles Heel]

I’m confused-—I just read where some govt agency (Fed?) said recession coming to end. No jobs - doesn’t mean that.

[Kartographer]

[jessduntno]

So, this is a perfect time to spend a couple TRILLION dollars to insure a few million illegal aliens and assorted ACORN fruitcakes, am I right?

[muawiyah]

All those folks without jobs will soon discover that Max Baucus intends to whack them with a $3,800 fine for not having health insurance.

[A message]

Thank Gaia the stimulus plan -8bama and his henchmen passed in such a hurry they couldn’t even read the bill has saved or created 50,000,000,000 jobs.

Whew, or wee, wee’d be up in really bad shape.

/S

[Buckeye McFrog]

Jobs will not come back until the Obama agenda becomes a dead-letter in Congress. Till then no business feels safe making any plans.

[AD from SpringBay]

The Christmas retail season is going to hurt. Just like the old saying, “The depression wasn’t too bad, as long as you had a job.”

[staytrue]

Jobs will not come back until the Obama agenda becomes a dead-letter in Congress. Till then no business feels safe making any plans.

Exactly right.

[dsrtsage]

Hope for Spare Change

[SoldierDad]

But, but, but, Biden stated that they had saved/created a million jobs and the stimulus is working better than they had hoped for (I’m betting that the results of the stimulus is working just the way they had hoped for - they want our economy to collapse).

[DoughtyOne]

It's a wonder Obama has any children, if his understanding of the word stimulus is this f..... screwed up.

[ex-snook]

As long as the stimulus holds out the job outlook is pretty good in Asia. Will continue to be bleak here until we make more of what we consume.

MAKE HERE - MAKE NOW

[genghis]

emphasis on the fruitcakes
sheeezzz

[jessduntno]

“The depression wasn’t too bad, as long as you had a job.”

Or the other old saying...”You aren’t gonna drown...the fall is gonna kill you!”

[mulligan]

Every action, every program, and every word spoken by the Obama administration is a job killer. Until that changes there will be no jobs and this Nation is headed for bankruptcy.

[nascarnation]

creator of jobs: small business

future of small business:

increased min wage
cap n tax
repeal Bush tax cuts
mandatory medical benefits tax
more regulation from scores of czars

small business runs scared

are the Baraqqis really that friggin stupid?

[TwelveOfTwenty]

I agree with the need to make here again, but what's the point if consumers won't buy the products made here? Both have to happen.

As for saving money by buying cheaper foreign made goods over higher priced American goods, I don't think the cost of rising unemployment, taxes being spent on the unemployed, loans falling into default, etc are made up by saving $.50 on pens and binders.

[mowowie]

Thank god I have free rent for the next 3 1/2 years.
Oh wait, thats not me it’s hussein.