housing boom!!

[fatman]

Hey, the upside is that of all those Jobs the Chosen One was bragging about, 75% of those were created at......Walmart!
(ouch) second was like Home Depot and third Mcdonalds.. 90% were part time.......not really how we build a nation
hey, do we still blame Bush? Or can we start blaming Reagan?

why are you 'blaming' anyone? It's not like anyone(read: Congress) has approved any Federally funded jobs. There are a lot of higher paying jobs going begging, also(I can testify to that.....I get around 10 recruiters a week for my profession, just in the MidAtlantic region, and they ain't minimum wage, nor part time). All in all, any economist will tell you that we've had pretty much the expected trajectory recovering from the type of recession(financial bubble) we had. So what?
Part of what you observe, above, is the nature of the economy we've been creating for 30 years or so, Have and Have-Not. I've been trying to tell you all that for over a decade here, and now that it comes closer you want to blame someone other that yourself(and fellow voters)? Sheesh!

Just a q Slick how many of these recruiters will take someone pretty much fresh college or are they the usual wont even look at you with out 5-10 years experiance

[Pudfark]

Well Fats...while yer waiting on Slick's response?
Lot's of those folks with the 5-10 years experience?
They've been unemployed for a couple or more years, meaning?
They've been or are going through foreclosure on their homes and their credit rating makes them unemployable by any reputable company, to include Federal Government employment.

Though, thank goodness, so many part time, low wage jobs are available and ObamaCare is just around the corner for them, to include the "new" $750.00 a year (TAX) penalty for taxing the poor.

Life is good for Slick, while he's "cleaning up" in the stock market and lecturing the ignorant here.
I hope this keeps you informed and entertained, until Slick answers you.

[callmeslick]

once again, my point wasn't about my success, but more about what has happened to the labor market. It isn't about a political solution, it's about the fact that far too much of our workforce is unprepared for the current economy. Would they take people with my type of skills right out of school? You bet, and they'd love to pay them a bit less than my rate to do it. Now some jobs(such as the consultant gig I took) require a bit of maturity, but most of them don't. The key thing is that chronic unemployment, while it gets blamed by those who like to do so rather than address a problem, was going to happen in the US economy anyway. Did some employers use the recession as an excuse to pare back further? Sure, but the bottom line is that efficiency has grown, less workers are needed for traditional employers, and not enough voters care enough to push the government into the sorts of projects that fueled past efficiency jumps and technological breakthroughs. Few people wish to spend the money needed to radically retrain our workforce. One large group insists we should slash government spending drastically, when exactly that sort of spending brought us computers, the internet, microprocessing, high speed communications, biotechnology and much of what built the US economy over the past 30 years or so. Many of you campaign for that very thing, so please, don't whine when the fruits of the first decade of that push have started to yield bitter fruit. Trust me, there will be more to come.

[Pudfark]

once again, my point wasn't about my success, but more about what has happened to the labor market. It isn't about a political solution, it's about the fact that far too much of our workforce is unprepared for the current economy. Would they take people with my type of skills right out of school? You bet, and they'd love to pay them a bit less than my rate to do it. Now some jobs(such as the consultant gig I took) require a bit of maturity, but most of them don't. The key thing is that chronic unemployment, while it gets blamed by those who like to do so rather than address a problem, was going to happen in the US economy anyway. Did some employers use the recession as an excuse to pare back further? Sure, but the bottom line is that efficiency has grown, less workers are needed for traditional employers, and not enough voters care enough to push the government into the sorts of projects that fueled past efficiency jumps and technological breakthroughs. Few people wish to spend the money needed to radically retrain our workforce. One large group insists we should slash government spending drastically, when exactly that sort of spending brought us computers, the internet, microprocessing, high speed communications, biotechnology and much of what built the US economy over the past 30 years or so. Many of you campaign for that very thing, so please, don't whine when the fruits of the first decade of that push have started to yield bitter fruit. Trust me, there will be more to come.

Your party controlled the Presidency, Senate and Congress for two years and did nothing about this.
It was a slam-dunk for yours. Now, you point the finger elsewhere. It seems, SHAME don't apply to you, solely in your opinion. There's a whole country out there Slick, not just you and your mirror.

[callmeslick]

um, Pud, 'my party' did not have a filibuster proof Senate majority. Hence, quite a few problems, and a huge chunk of the administration to attack issues on the executive level, went unaddressed.
Still, I see a lot of finger-pointing and no postive ideas. Guess we'll all have to wait for something of positive substance, huh?

[Pudfark]

um, Pud, 'my party' did not have a filibuster proof Senate majority. Hence, quite a few problems, and a huge chunk of the administration to attack issues on the executive level, went unaddressed.
Still, I see a lot of finger-pointing and no postive ideas. Guess we'll all have to wait for something of positive substance, huh?

So, how did that there excuse of yours relate to passing ObamaCare?

How's about you "structuring" Obama's positive ideas for us?
In terms of cost, return and doable amortization.
Ya know...like "blue prints".

[callmeslick]

um, that decidedly affected the limits put on healthcare reform, and no, I won't repeat the positives I've given for 5 years. If you can read, you can find them here, it's that simple. I note, however, that you still offer not ONE single plan for any major issue. Not a single thing? So easy to whine, isn't it, little fellow, but rather hard to man up and produce your own ideas, or even put forth ideas from others that you support to address real issues?

[Barfly]

You can't repeat something you never did in the first place slick. Or should we just call you bait; that's kinda slippery.