Little reason for celebration

The official unemployment rate of the U.S. economy remains at 9.7%,  and the underemployment rate increased to 16.9%.  These numbers represent a real tragedy for many Americans.

While the White House tries to celebrate the creation of 162,000 new jobs last month, at least 48,000 of these new jobs are government jobs, specifically temporary census workers, who are doing unproductive work and are being paid with taxes collected from the rest of the private economy.

Employment also increased in temporary help services and healthcare, but continued to decline in financial activities and in information, which is interesting given the recent comments by President Obama that the government takeover of the student loan program tucked into the health care bill “took $68 billion from banks and financial institutions.”(Obama’s  April 1 remarks)  That’s a lot of jobs, Mr. President.

Seems like there is more concrete evidence that, rather than creating jobs, the President’s policies are costing the economy jobs.

by Sherry Jarrell

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