Obama Promises On Economy Fall Short - Few Private Sector Jobs Created In May
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the May unemployment numbers today, and they’re particularly disappointing. “Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, reflecting the hiring of 411,000 temporary employees to work on Census 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Private-sector employment changed little (+41,000).”
Take time to note the number of senior citizens helping to take the Census? I appreciate their willingness to work. However, few of them were or are looking for permanent employment. A majority of people needing real jobs are at home drawing unemployment rather than helping take the Census.Why, because unemployment plus other social benefits pays better. By November, the Obama administration might even attempt to count election officials and election poll workers as employed during November. The Obama administration's seeking continuation of unemployment benefits does not motivate anyone to get off their backside to seek work at a lower pay scale and in another part of the US. Just one example, there are a lot of real "chicken plucking job being done by foreign workers with temporary work permits that could be done by people who were "willing" workers.
Politico provides some context: “That’s less job growth than many expected, and will not provide a boost to the Obama administration, which has been struggling to demonstrate that its economic policies are helping to ease the nation's epic unemployment problem. The government said that 411,000 of the jobs created in May were temporary positions with the once-a-decade US Census, and not the kind of employment that can drive a sustained economic recovery. That meant that the overall private sector employment growth for the month was anemic – up by just 41,000.”
The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder isn’t encouraged either, noting that “it's quite possible that without all those Census jobs, collectively a mini stimulus program, that the numbers might well go in a different direction once people answer their doors . . . .”
Of course, this jobs report once again fails to live up to the promises made and the expectations set by the Obama administration. When President Obama was first selling his $862 billion stimulus bill (which, incidentally, was supposed to keep unemployment around 8%) he said during a press conference, “More than 90 percent of the jobs created by this plan will be in the private sector. They're not going to be make-work jobs, but jobs doing the work that America desperately needs done, jobs rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our dangerously deficient dams and levees so that we don't face another Katrina.” And last month, Reuters reported , “Vice President Joe Biden . . . predicted the upcoming May employment report would show a much larger number of jobs created than in the previous month, when 290,000 jobs were added. ‘It is going to be well beyond that this time,’ he told a Democratic Party fund-raising event in New York.”
Disappointed Senator Mitch McConnell responded from Kentucky today, saying, “The two things that are growing fastest in this Democrat economy are the size of the federal government and the crushing burden of the national debt. Americans are doing everything possible to work harder, produce more, and live with less, while Washington is saddling them with even more government and insurmountable debt for their efforts. When America truly begins creating jobs that help our economy grow, it will be despite our government, not because of it. Although Americans appreciate a job of any kind these days, temporary government Census jobs are not the kind of employment that will help kick-start and sustain our economy.”
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Take time to note the number of senior citizens helping to take the Census? I appreciate their willingness to work. However, few of them were or are looking for permanent employment. A majority of people needing real jobs are at home drawing unemployment rather than helping take the Census.Why, because unemployment plus other social benefits pays better. By November, the Obama administration might even attempt to count election officials and election poll workers as employed during November. The Obama administration's seeking continuation of unemployment benefits does not motivate anyone to get off their backside to seek work at a lower pay scale and in another part of the US. Just one example, there are a lot of real "chicken plucking job being done by foreign workers with temporary work permits that could be done by people who were "willing" workers.
Politico provides some context: “That’s less job growth than many expected, and will not provide a boost to the Obama administration, which has been struggling to demonstrate that its economic policies are helping to ease the nation's epic unemployment problem. The government said that 411,000 of the jobs created in May were temporary positions with the once-a-decade US Census, and not the kind of employment that can drive a sustained economic recovery. That meant that the overall private sector employment growth for the month was anemic – up by just 41,000.”
The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder isn’t encouraged either, noting that “it's quite possible that without all those Census jobs, collectively a mini stimulus program, that the numbers might well go in a different direction once people answer their doors . . . .”
Of course, this jobs report once again fails to live up to the promises made and the expectations set by the Obama administration. When President Obama was first selling his $862 billion stimulus bill (which, incidentally, was supposed to keep unemployment around 8%) he said during a press conference, “More than 90 percent of the jobs created by this plan will be in the private sector. They're not going to be make-work jobs, but jobs doing the work that America desperately needs done, jobs rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our dangerously deficient dams and levees so that we don't face another Katrina.” And last month, Reuters reported , “Vice President Joe Biden . . . predicted the upcoming May employment report would show a much larger number of jobs created than in the previous month, when 290,000 jobs were added. ‘It is going to be well beyond that this time,’ he told a Democratic Party fund-raising event in New York.”
Disappointed Senator Mitch McConnell responded from Kentucky today, saying, “The two things that are growing fastest in this Democrat economy are the size of the federal government and the crushing burden of the national debt. Americans are doing everything possible to work harder, produce more, and live with less, while Washington is saddling them with even more government and insurmountable debt for their efforts. When America truly begins creating jobs that help our economy grow, it will be despite our government, not because of it. Although Americans appreciate a job of any kind these days, temporary government Census jobs are not the kind of employment that will help kick-start and sustain our economy.”
Tags: Obama administration, jobs, lack of jobs, unemployment, the economy, To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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