TEN POINT TWO PERCENT

10.2% Unemployment



This is the statistical figure that has just been released by the Obama Administration informing the nation that as of October just over 1 in 10 of our fellow Americans is out of work, unemployed, lost his/her job and has sought federal/state/local welfare.



10.2% Unemployment



This is the United States unemployment figure that the White House acknowledges. In reality it is well over 17% and could be much closed to 20% if the Federal government would elect to be honest in its calculations. Not included in the said unemployment figure are our fellow citizens who no longer draw unemployment benefits; who, even though they lost their jobs, never applied for unemployment benefits; or who are only part-time employees while seeking full-time jobs.



10.2% Unemployment



This is a clear sign of the failure of the Obama Administration. It has failed to implement even one program that can be rationally described as seeking to cure the growing national curse that is unemployment. The recent PR efforts by the White House in boasting over the number of jobs it has helped create has already been exposed as false data. Increased Federal government spending on public projects, which projects will only be implemented in the coming years, has in fact only been more deficit spending which has increased our financial obligations to foreign nations, primarily Communist China and now left-leaning Japan.



10.2% Unemployment

Barely acknowledged by Obama is the data that shows the number of actual hours being worked weekly by Americans who have "full-time" jobs. This past month if you were among the employed you averaged 33 hours per week of paid time. On a standard 40 hour week, this calculates to being "on the job" only 82.5 % of the "normal" work week. It would seem logical that the currently employed, on a national average, would have to receive an 18% increase in their number of work hours before any new jobs would be filled.

10.2% Unemployment

Cold eyed political commentators have opined that Obama and his advocates have no desire at all to lower the number of out-of-work Americans until much closed to the November 2010 elections and then again as the November 2012 Presidential election approaches. The purpose is clear and selfish. Sitting in the White House and in other government jobs, the rational of these "public servants" is to label the unemployment as a Bush-Republican malady and then be able to point to an increase in jobs as an accomplishment of Obama and his far-left allies. All of this not to assist Americans as much as to position themselves for reelection.

10.2% Unemployment

This sensed, but not yet published reality, put conservatives into the Virginia and the New Jersey Governor mansions. This same conservative sweep will occur again in 2010 and then reach the 2012 goal of retiring B.H.O.