Jobless rate hit 14% in Nevada, highest in the country. We were the 3rd for awhile. Are still the highest mortgage collapse in the US. The jobless numbers are for those still able to collect unemployemnt ONLY. The few people I know who were collecting, they're payments stopped during the last 7 weeks. Just where do they think people are going to get $, or work? They started when this mess started, back in Sept 08 when we had a different President for 8 years, nice goodbye gift.
2 nights ago, another company laid off over 250 people. Last month, a poorly planned new place laid off 350. Greed, poor planning and poor state representation. Thanks Senator. It's a dam good thing you got kicked out of the primaries, yea, we wanted more of your parties wheeling dealing.

It is rough, a new deal few saw coming,, I think things are changing DRASTICALLY nearly overnight too

first it was the change requiring people to have COLLEGE education to make decent money,, now they are saying employers actually are TURNING down unemployed people,,,,,,it pretty much sucks,, but the silver lining is maybe more people will become entrepreneurial and maybe greed will backfire by forcing people to live with less and learn to appreciate what they have,,,,

well. I've always lived by less, by choice. It is a scary thing, yet people are nicer to each other, as noted before in another thread. We are in so deep with the feds, poor planning, I really would be surprised if S. Nevada makes that much of a comeback. Which isn't such a bad idea, the way it was.

Yep. Obama's " plan " is working to perfection.

I think you may have misspoke. Employers aren't turning down unemployed people. They are turning down college educated people because they expect higher pay.

Obabma's " plan " of taxing the " rich " ( mostly small business owners ) is not going to help the problem and will, in fact, exacerbate it.

The more taxes a company has to pay, the less they are going to want to pay for workers.

As usual, the Dems want to punish those who succeed.

Start a successful business....they'll tax you out of business.

Graduate college...you won't be able to find a job because companies can't AFFORD to pay well.

What a great " plan ".

no, Nevada was on a down before Obama took office,, from 7.1 to 9.1 in just the the last three months of 2008 and continued to fall until the end of the BUSH Administrations budget in the fall of 2009,,,

the rate has slowed since the new budget, but we are still hurting

as to the unemployed not being employable,, I didnt misspeak at all,,,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/04/disturbing-job-ads-the-un_n_600665.html#

'Hope' and 'Change' ... right ... Words. Have. Meanings. in the same way that Elections. Have. Consequences.

Yeah, the unemployment, the economy, let's blame it on Obama. Bush had zero to do with it.

well damn...so much for me moving to Vegas to be a stripper

outsourcing hasn`t helped. this is soooo depressing, what will people do? move? settle for low-paying jobs that lead nowhere?

Ladylid, u crack me up

I think their selling The USA, and taking payments

lol,, actually thats still a pretty secure job,,,lol...


Im thinking about running a full time kissing booth myself,, if the circus can get away with it,,,,,

I did that in my front yard last summer....I broke even

HAAAAAAAAAA,,, good for you,,,awesome even,,,lol

I agree with Ms. H. You just have to be here. I run a meal program for the destitute and give out emergency food boxes to those who run short. We have over 30 food banks in LOst Wages. Our shelves are becoming empty, so we only give out to families with small children and seniors. It was the republicans who did this before Mr. Obama came to presidency, and started a couple of years before. Hopefully thy're out.

Oh. please.

I live in Michigan. Ya know....the state that was THE worst in the country as far as unemployment until you folks decided to take over from us.

Do you REALLY think it was the Republicans that got us into this mess??

It wasn't.

It wasn't the Democrats either.

It was our corrupt, inept, and idiotic government for the last 30 years or so. PERIOD.

Blaming this one or that one is just ridiculous.

I bring up Obama's name because he assured us during the campaign that he had a " plan " to make this country more prosperous.

That " plan " is failing miserably at this point.

So what do they do???

They blame someone else rather than saying " Hey, ya know what, I am not sure how to get us out of this hole either. "

It's Bush's fault...it's Clinton's fault...it's Obama's fault....it's George Bush 1's fault too.

They ALL do or did nothing more than what is good for the people who line their pockets and don't give a rat's azz ( and please don't say Obama is any different because he isn't ) about the population as a whole.

I point out that Obama's " plan " ( what exactly was that plan again??? I don't remember him saying anything of any substance during the entire campaign. Oh yeah!! I know!! " Hope and CHANGE " right??? ) is failing because it IS failing.

He said recently that the economy is " growing at a good clip "...well..maybe.

Just a shame that his taxes on the " rich " folks will put a ceiling on how high the economy will actually grow.

I think your country has also bumped Chernobyl off the number one on the list for global impact man-made environmental disasters...

yep..we have

I will wait for the actual experts to compare disasters,,,,,

In actuality, this time the company BP remains English owned, not American owned......and as far as our government.....well pumping there was approved and instituted under Bush when oil prices increased and the American people were upset over gas prices.......we complain they did its everyone involved fault.......that you can blame Bush for.......but either Bush, Obama or any other president only act to accomplish a goal, placate the American people, or cover a need.......we cannot rely on the governmeent to fix all the problems.......we as people have become too complacent

Wanna know WHY they had to drill a few miles down??

The environuts.

That's right friends and neighbors.

Had the enviornazis not been so anal and thrown such a hissy fit about drilling for oil ( which, by the way, no matter HOW MUCH they don't like it is STILL a necessity ) in shallower waters, where, by the way, a spill or leak would have been MUCH easier to control orcap, we would have NEVER had this big of a problem go on for as long as it has.

So go ahead and piss and moan about the environmental impact.

The fact is, the ones who are now doing all the pissing and moaning are, in fact, the people that had a big hand in CAUSING the damn problem in the first place.

But, hey, that's not what everyone wants to hear now is it??

Of course not. Let's not put any blame on the folks who FORCED BP and other companies to drill deeper than they have ever had to before.

I do not absolve BP. There should have been contingency plans in place, equipment on hand, etc to be prepared.

However. Since everyone seems to want to assign blame...let's make sure that ALL the people/groups who had a hand in causing it get their fair share.