OMG its going to take time. There is not a quick fix to what the past, beginning with Regan, administrations have done.

The deployment of the stimulus package to those who caused the problem was done by the Bush administration.

I don't have a problem with that at all. What I have a problem with was the assurance made by everybody from Obama on down that if the stimulus were enacted we'd never see unemployment go above, what? 8 percent? To many people, that looks like a lie, whether fair or not. And they (Obama and the Obamanauts) just won't admit they're wrong, much as Dubya and his gang never admitted wrong for just about anything. However, when the mighty, mighty O and his gang refuse to admit error, we see everybody left of center applauding. Now, that's not an economic issue (most people aren't stupid, after all, and can accept that projections made are subject to forces greater than the assumptions originally made to craft the projection), but it IS an issue now of obstinacy that Obama et al seems to be demonstrating in spades. Much as Bush and coterie did.

T.

republicans in congress, and those here (with the exception of art), don't understand that gains in employment lag behind other benchmarks of economic improvement. for example, you'll note that worker productivity grew at an annualized 10%, announced the same day that unemployment crossed 10%, which is to be expected as businesses lean out.

but once businesses have leaned out as much as they can, they'll hire again when they see consumer confidence growing, and their own inventories depleting. this, assuming their lines of credit are again expanding, which is much more likely to happen because of the reid/pelosi socialist takeover of the banks.

in six, or nine, months, if we aren't adding jobs, then you can sing the republican doomsday song. but if we're adding 100,000 jobs a month by mid-2010, i expect the righties here will fall silent on that issue, and we'll be back on obama's birth certificate.