Dateline Sep. 4, 2009: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that in August, the number of unemployed persons increased by 466,000 to 14.9 million, and the unemployment rate rose by 0.3 percentage points to 9.7 percent. Bloomberg reports that 5 million have been out of work for more than 6 months, and that the underemployment rate is a record 16.8%. The Labor Bureau reported that 9.1 million workers have had their hours cut and are employed only part-time. 2.3 million unemployed were not counted because they gave up looking for work, and the number of discouraged workers has doubled over the past 12 months.

        6,158,000 workers were employed in Construction in Aug 2009; whereas only 707,000 were employed in mining and logging. Oil and gas extraction employed only 164,700. As for the high-tech jobs that were supposed to replace dirty jobs, 1,127,100 were employed out of 300,000,000 who require healthcare. Textile mills employed a meager 122,100 employees; in 1995, 1,600,000 were employed in that industry which was more than the auto and aircraft industries combined.[1] So next time you hear a politician talk about taxing oil and coal, next time you hear them claim that we need green jobs, tell them you want the jobs back that the EPA and the IRS have destroyed.

        The U.S. economy has lost 6.5 millions jobs since Obama stepped into the oval office. All those who are unemployed need healthcare, need money for rent or mortgage, and food, so this administration gives them stimulus, but what they really need are jobs. That government can never give. It can only take away, and it has!

        There will be kneejerk negative reaction to returning to the spewing of smoke from the stakes of industry, especially from the younger brainwashed generation. Call me crazy, but since we need jobs here, and China is doing all the polluting there, let Americans work in the oil fields of America. Let them once again work in the steel mills of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Youngstown, Ohio, and Garry Indiana, or in the car factories of Detroit, and Lancing. Let them work in the manufacturing plants that once were in Yonkers, New York. Open the doors again of Anaconda Copper Company in Montana, and the coal mines in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania and in West Virginia.

        Let the free-market create jobs. “Oakland boomed between 1900 and 1930, nearly quadrupling its population (from 67,000 to 284,000) and adding tens of thousands of jobs to its industrial base.” [2] and it did so without a stimulus package from Washington D.C. Capitalism has not failed; it was neutered by the well meaning, and by the socialists. We have not had a free market since FDR. America does not need more new deals. America needs more economic freedom.