I was told that I would not have to pay for rent or gas if Obama won. Obama also told me my taxes would not be raised. He also promised me a job.

I don't understand why unemployment is at 10% and my taxes have been raised. I also still have to pay for rent and gas.

North Korea is firing missles and Iran is getting the bomb.

auto companies, band bailout's etc all Bush's fault as he turned a blind eye to all that stuff

You know the libs are hurting when they have no facts or unable to respond.

Who's hurting here??? Poster gave a good truthful response, unfortunately reps are in complete denial and don't care to hear the truth. Trying to blame Obama for Bush incompetence and his cronies is getting old!

"Trying to blame Obama for Bush incompetence and his cronies is getting old!"

What's getting old is the Obama administration trying to take credit for anything positive that happens, and trying to blame anything negative on Bush. That's both disingenuous and very very old. And fewer and fewer people are falling for it every day, as is evidenced by Obama's skyrocketing disapproval ratings.

Why are the libs up at 4:29 am? Libs don't work because Obama is in office. Libs usually have no moralsso they should be able to sleep. Why are they up at 4:29 am in the morning? Aee they worried that they were lied to back in 2008 by Obama? Are they upset that the Hope and Change was a lie?

cant disguise your "troll" posts. Case in point was the one you posted 4 minutes before this one. Really getting old.

Why can you admit Obama lies!!!!!!

Fewer and fewer people are listening every day.

what a piece of work he is

leading the country is not about theatrics

leading the country is not about blaming someone else



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama on Thursday called the nation's latest unemployment figures sobering, but said the economic recession is slowing.

In a Rose Garden appearance with chief executives of clean-energy companies, (also known as job killers)Obama noted the average number of job losses in the current fiscal quarter has been 400,000 a month, compared with a monthly average of 700,000 in the previous quarter.

"It took years for us to get into this mess, and it'll take more than a few months to get out," Obama said. (the buck stops with George Bush?)

A government report Thursday showed a net loss of 467,000 jobs in June, compared with a revised loss of 322,000 jobs in May. It was the first time in four months that the number of jobs lost rose from the prior month.

The June job losses also were far worse than the forecast of a loss of 365,000 jobs by economists surveyed by Briefing.com.

The unemployment rate rose for the ninth straight month, climbing to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent, and hitting another 26-year high. Economists had been expecting the unemployment rate to hit 9.6 percent.

The only good news reported by the Labor Department on Thursday was that the number of workers filing initial jobless claims fell to 614,000 last week from 630,000 the week before. That was roughly in line with forecasts.

Also Thursday, a new national poll indicated that nearly half of all Americans think the economy has stabilized, but only one in eight think a recovery has started.

At the same time, the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey found that about 40 percent of respondents think the downturn is continuing.

"The prevailing view? We're in a stall," said Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst.

Still, one in five questioned said the economic conditions in the country today are good, up 9 points from March.

Obama has said recovery will take time, predicting the unemployment rate will climb above 10 percent before reversing. He insists that the economic stimulus package his administration pushed through Congress earlier this year has lessened the harm of the recession. (most real economists think it made things worse, and will continue to be a drag on the economy as projects kick in and drain the money needed for recovery)

"I'm absolutely confident ... we're not only going to recover from this recession in the short term, but we're going to prosper in the long term," Obama said Thursday, touting his push for a clean-energy economy to position the United States for global economic leadership in the 21st century.

The U.S. House last week passed its version of a new energy bill that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change and promote renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures. (man made global warming is a hoax)

Obama said the bill "holds the promise of millions of new jobs ... that can't be outsourced."

"We know we're going to have to change how we use energy," he said. "We are not folks who are scared of the future and look backwards." (where does he come up with this stuff??????)

The latest job figures show job creation is necessary. Overall, nearly 3.4 million jobs have been lost during the first half of 2009, exceeding the 3.1 million lost in all of 2008.

"It's not the catastrophic numbers we saw earlier this year, but they're still pretty ... lousy," said Keith Hembre, chief economist with First American Funds.

The job losses don't tell the full picture of the labor market's pain. The average hourly work week fell to 33 hours from 33.1 hours in May, a record low in readings that date back to 1964. Average hourly wages were unchanged, so the shorter week shaved $1.85, or 0.3 percent, off of the average weekly paycheck.

The so-called underemployment rate, which counts those who are working part-time jobs because they can't find a full-time position, as well as discouraged job seekers who have stopped looking for work, rose to a record high 16.5 percent.

Those who have been out of work for six months or more, and thus have run out of unemployment benefits, climbed to nearly 4.4 million, also a record high. (these are important statistics and are not tracked in the 9.5% rate, hence it's really worse than the 9.5% indicates)

Tig Gilliam, chief executive officer of Adecco Group North America, a unit of the world's largest employment staffing firm, said continued sluggish spending by consumers is delaying the chances for an economic recovery.
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"The 90.5 percent who have jobs aren't spending," Gilliam said. (no, we are hording because of the inflation that the administration is creating)

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted Friday through Sunday, with 1,026 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

"Obama said the bill "holds the promise of millions of new jobs ... that can't be outsourced."

Yo Barack, it's not the new "green" jobs people are concerned about, it's how many non-green jobs we lose for every green job we add. Nobody seems to want to talk about that. I wonder why?

Obama's overall has negative approval according to Rasmussen's latest surveys.

IMHO, i think that Obama truely believes what he is spewing. america DID want change. just not the change that he is bringing. the disconnect is he thinks that IS what the American people want. the Dems, with a ton of help from the media, went on a campaign to destroy Bush and were very effective. nothing he did was right, even if it WAS good. the feel good points were that Bush was an idiot and we shouldn'd be in Iraq. that message cought fire and, in my opinion, that is the change that everyone wanted...NO Bush and NO war. it is telling that you have more and more Obama voters speaking out now against him. once he really screws up and the media goes after him, like they did Bush and Clinton, it will really be bad for him and the Dems. the sad thing is, everyone will jump on that bandwagon and vote all the Dems out, again, and put the Republicans back in power and we will be back where were are now. Dems and Reps are the same disease to this contry, they just have different symptoms to recognize. now would be a good time for a new party to start organizing. Dems need to go but, so do the Reps. Washington needs a good house cleaning and some new tenents. just my opinion. Happy 4th America!! be safe