Even in fields like health care and education (the latter especially a crappy endeavor as districts all over the country are throwing unwanted teachers out in order to exploit the worsening economy of having hundreds of applicants for one or two jobs--with those jobs more often than not filled with nepotisms), it is very difficult for people to be hired.
And what about temporary work? There's none of that, since employers aren't hiring anybody, whether permanent, temporary, or using temp services. And they aren't hiring because many of the jobs have been outsourced to cheapo third world countries or else they aren't hiring because nobody is buying anything. And when nobody is buying anything, there can't be any jobs created.
But Obama has more important things to do than worry about job creation, which requires federal help to jumpstart the economy.
This person is one of millions:
In Milwaukee, Debbie Kransky has been without work since February, when she was laid off from a medical billing position — her second job loss in two years. She has exhausted her unemployment benefits, because her last job lasted for only a month.
Indeed, in a perverse quirk of the unemployment system, she would have qualified for continued benefits had she stayed jobless the whole two years, rather than taking a new position this year. But since her latest unemployment claim stemmed from a job that lasted mere weeks, she recently drew her final check of $340.
Ms. Kransky, 51, has run through her life savings of roughly $10,000. Her job search has garnered little besides anxiety.
“I’ve worked my entire life,” said Ms. Kransky, who lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment. “I’ve got October rent. After that, I don’t know. I’ve never lived month to month my entire life. I’m just so scared, I can’t even put it into words.”
I can. It's the shits, and I blame our elected officials for selling our country down the river.
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