If we personally have jobs, we may rejoice and be able to handle many challenges that may come our way. But if we don't have a job, or a prospect of getting one, real hardship and anxiety may be upon us.
It is alarming that the January jobless rate in Tennessee was a painful 10.7 percent.
In some of our neighboring states, the problems were even worse. North Carolina had 11.1 percent unemployment, South Carolina 12.6 percent, Florida 11.9 percent. Georgia was just a little better off with 10.4 percent jobless.
It's hard to realize that January joblessness was only 4.2 percent -- the lowest in the nation -- in North Dakota. Two nearby states -- Nebraska and South Dakota -- had only 4.5 percent and 4.8 percent unemployment respectively, despite their harsh winter weather.
But if it's "my" job that is lost, it feels as though unemployment were "100 percent."
There is no magic prospect for quick recovery. But surely, there should be realization that we long have been doing too many wrong things economically, resulting in our current unemployment pain. We'd better stop doing the wrong things and encourage more of the right things, to produce needed goods and services, at costs that attract eager customers -- to create more jobs.
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There is no magic prospect for quick recovery. But surely, there should be realization that we long have been doing too many wrong things economically, resulting in our current unemployment pain. We'd better stop doing the wrong things and encourage more of the right things, to produce needed goods and services, at costs that attract eager customers -- to create more jobs.
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How many people here in the Tennessee Valley remember what the conditions were during the "great depression" of 1929? There have been many changes here in the SE US since that period. What happened to all of the manufcturing jobs that were in the area, like "Combustion Engineers"? Now the same equipment is shipped from South Korea or other low wage countries. You are correct in saying, "We'd better stop doing the wrong things and encourage more of the right things, to produce needed goods and services, at costs that attract eager customers -- to create more jobs." You need to stress the main point of "more jobs here in the US." The creation of these jobs has come down to the question, of who has the responsibility to create these jobs when it was the global private free markets causing our losses by following the lowest wage labor for having their goods manufactured and we as the consumers have been buying these imported goods being shipped into the US over a long period. The buying of these global corporations' has caused large record trade deficits for years and the change from the US being an industrial base economy to a service, debt based economy.
No, there is not a "quick fix" as all of the anti Obama people are complaining about, since he has not corrected this jobs problem in his one year in office.
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