It's the Jobs, Stupid

It appears far more jobs were lost in September than were created, as if this is any great surprise.

Here is another take on our worsening unemployment situation.

And another one:

For millions of unemployed people, the change merely confirmed something many have come to grasp intimately, through the discouraging process of seeking work.

“There’s nothing out there,” said Jerry Lamirande, a technology systems engineer in Amarillo, Tex., who has been out of work since April 2008.

During the technology boom of the late 1990s, Mr. Lamirande, now 62, worked for I.B.M. and made about $130,000 a year. After a layoff seven years ago, he has been paid about $70,000 a year as a consultant working under temporary contracts.

Since his last job, he and his wife have lived on her salary as a public school teacher and on hardship withdrawals from his retirement account. He has searched nationwide for his next contract, willing to relocate for work.

“I have no choice,” he said. “I’ve got to go where the opportunities are. The problem is, there aren’t many opportunities.”

Meanwhile Robert Reich agrees with me that there needs to be job creation programs in this country to get the economy going again.

That and reverse all of this outsourcing crap which has forced this country to be indebted further to other countries.