Anyone ever been hired by a POOR person? No? Din't think so ... Since 'The UN' is doin' his damnedest to make everyone in our nation EQUALLY POOR, it's gonna be quite a while before jobs start gettin' created again - if ever. But don't worry - he'll get his buds and psychophant suckups in Congress to pass y'all some more 99 weeks of unemployment ... how's THAT for 'hope' 'n 'change' ... ? Stay frosty, folks - y' might get another job in this lifetime before you die ... but don't count on it. Remember to say 'Thanks, Obama' as you exit, okay ... ?

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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/barack-obama--the-great-jobs-killer-97758294.html

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Barack Obama: The great jobs killer

As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, "Obama, there you go again."

The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0 -- a blowout.

Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This "community organizer" knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.

It's time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes -- rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners -- Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI's Most Wanted List.

Meanwhile, he has kept the union workers of GM and Chrysler employed (with taxpayer money). He has made sure that most government employee union members got their annual raises for sleeping on the job (with taxpayer money). He made sure that his voters got handouts mislabeled as "tax cuts" even though they never paid taxes (with taxpayer money). And he made sure that major campaign contributors collected billions off government stimulus (with taxpayer money).

As far as the taxpayers -- the people who actually take risks with our own money to create small businesses and jobs and pay most of the taxes -- we require protection under the Endangered Species Act.

You won't find proof of the damage Obama is doing on Wall Street, but rather on Main Street. My friends are all part of the economic engine of America: Small business. Small business creates 75 percent of new jobs (and a majority of all jobs). I called one friend who was a wealthy restaurant owner. He says business is off by 60 percent. He's drowning in debt. He won't last much longer. His wealth is gone.

I called another friend in the business of home improvement. He says business is off 90 percent from two years ago. My contractor just filed personal bankruptcy. She won't be building any more homes. The hair salon where I've had my hair cut for years closed earlier this year. Bankrupt. But here's the clincher -- ESPN Zone just closed all their restaurants across the country. If they can't make it selling cheap food and overpriced beer with 100 big screens blaring every sporting event on the planet to a sports-crazed society, we are all in deep, deep trouble.

I've polled all my friends who own small businesses -- many of them in the Internet and high-tech fields. They all agree that in this new Obama world of high business taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, and workers compensation taxes, the key to success is to avoid employees. The only way to survive as a business owner today is by keeping the payroll very low and by hiring only independent contractors or part-time employees provided by temp agencies.

The days of jobs in the private sector with big salaries, full benefits, and pensions are over. We've all seen where those kinds of jobs get you as a business owner -- in Bankruptcy Court or surviving on government welfare like GM and Chrysler. Or in the case of government itself -- completely insolvent, but surviving by ripping off taxpayers and fraudulently running printing presses at the Fed all day and night to print money by the trillions.

Unfortunately, small businesses don't have the power to impose taxes or print money. So unlike government, we'll just have to cut employees and run lean and mean.

It has now become clear that, outside of the burgeoning field of Census takers, there will be no major increase in new jobs for years to come. Outside government, Obama has created a wasteland of economic ruin and depression that looks much like the landscape of Mel Gibson's first movie "Mad Max." Without a printing press in Obama's world, you're just plain out of luck.

The days of believing the Obama propaganda about a jobs recovery are over. The trillion-dollar corporate handouts (neatly named "stimulus") may have kept big business in the money for the past 18 months, and artificially propped up the stock market, but small business is the real canary in the coal mine.

My small business-owning friends aren't creating one job. Not one. They are shedding jobs. They are learning to do more with fewer employees. They are creating high-tech businesses that don't need employees. And many business owners are making plans to leave the country. In a high-tech world where businesses can be run from anywhere, Obama has a problem. His one-trick pony -- raise taxes, raise taxes, raising taxes -- is chasing away the business owners he desperately needs to pay his bills.

So who is going to pay Obama's taxes? Not his voters. They want government to pay them. Who is going to create Obama's jobs? Not his voters -- they've never created a job in their lives.

So what is Obama going to do? Maybe he can get Pamela Anderson on the line.

Come-on dude, give it up.
Government doesn't kill jobs.
Business kills jobs by poor management and exporting family supporting jobs overseas.

More Kool-Aid® ... ?

Just a tall glass of common sense.

Something that seems to be lacking in certain political outlooks.

Want a mirror to check that statement ... ?

Government absolutely CAN and DOES " kill jobs ".

When business owners are heavily taxed, they won't hire anyone, or they will hire fewer people at lower wages, because of the increased tax burden.

THAT is " common sense " and very VERY basic economics.

Of course, economic principals don't matter at all to the Democrats and Lefties.

about the author:

Wayne Allyn Root
Wayne Allyn Root, the 2008 vice presidential candidate on the Libertarian ticket, is a Fox News regular guest and the author of, "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts." He writes from Henderson.

http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/root.html

I'm afraid you are partially wrong. Since you do not hire and have to deal with the associated paperwork of having employees let me illuminate you.

Taxation. Paying for Worker's Compensation insurance. Tax Matching for SSI. Overbearing Environmental standards. And FEES FEES FEES!

You do know for every dollar a worker pays into SSI the employer has to match it Dollar for Dollar?

A minimum wage employee actually costs (bear in mind that the current minimum wage is $8.25 an hr.) is actually about 15 to 16 an hour once you add the cost of taxation to the wages.

On top of that the government fines the crap out of small businesses for ANYTHING they can find wrong no matter how small the infraction is!

Big businesses skate along paying less taxes, less fines, and less oversight.

Nuff said!

Government definitely kills jobs. Read Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard (not to mention "Meltdown" by Dr Thomas Woods) to understand why.

Business is setting the stage for November, they want the dumbocRATS out and the redumblicans in office because they will give business whatever business wants with no questions asked and criminal entrants will still flood our borders regardless what party is in office.

There's probably truth in that, but the Dems have done plenty of robbing from the workers to give to corporations themselves.

what was the jobless rate BEFORE he went in to office?

ADRID - Spain's jobless rate topped 20 per cent in the first quarter, official data showed Friday, fuelling fears over the country's public finances which have rattled global financial markets.

The number of unemployed jumped by 280,200 to 4.61 million, more than in Germany which has nearly twice Spain's population, for a jobless rate of 20.05 per cent, said national statistics institute INE.

The unemployment rate rose from 18.83 per cent in the fourth quarter.

The last time it topped 20 per cent in Spain was in the fourth quarter of 1997 when it hit 20.11 per cent.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Spain+unemployment+rate+tops+cent/2971839/story.html#ixzz0spY6Jafa


i guess thats obama's fault too...

(Reuters) - The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to 10.2 percent last month, a 26-1/2-year high, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.

The Labor Department said on Friday that employers cut 190,000 jobs in October, more than the 175,000 markets had expected but fewer than the 219,000 jobs lost in September.

Job losses for August and September were revised to show 91,000 fewer jobs were lost than previously reported, taking some of the sting out of the report.


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maybe your right, but i think its a world thing going on...

The world's economic problems are nothing new, though. The EU (especially Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain) is long past bankrupt and headed for hyperinflation.

Gee. You coulda found this out for yourself ... laziness is SO lame ...

dont ya love numbers and how they can be picked and prodded to point out just about anything?


800,000 jobs lost the month he took office,,
675,000 the month before that
750,000 the month before that
575,000 the month before that

jump to

750,000 the month AFTER he took office
775,000 the month AFTER that
600,000 the month AFTER that
350,000 the month AFTER that
30,000 in January 2010 (one year after taking office)

Gee. For someone who's always insisting that everyone provide a SOURCE for their documentation, I don't see you doing what you ask others to do ... without sourcing, these are just made up numbers ...

She says something about numbers being able to say whatever you want them to....

And completely disregards the fact that Obama's " Laser like focus " on creating jobs has done nothing but make it more and more difficult for jobs to be created.

Taxing the life out of small business owners ( which by the way provide the vast majority of jobs in this country ) is NOT a way to make them hire people.

It completely amazes me how the Lefties and Obama apologists can manage to convince themselves that what he's doing is a good thing when basic economics flat out shows how wrong and misguided his ideas about job growth are.

And he killed a distinguished military career also.