Washington, We Have a Problem; Obama’s State of the Union Address Ignores Current Unemployment Fixes & Outsourcing of Manufacturing JOBS Abroad:

Washington, We Have a Problem; Obama’s State of the Union Address Ignores Current Unemployment Fixes & Outsourcing of Manufacturing JOBS Abroad:

By Marc Chamot

Jobs Dilemma: Washington, we have a problem. We've got too many unemployed Americans and so far no solutions. The presidential State of the Union Address showed our nation is in deep, deep, political trouble.

President Obama in his speech the other day, ignored the real problem, the current unemployment disaster that has befallen upon our nation.

USA Today came out with an article, about Americas unemployed. In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll “of unemployed Americans, most of those surveyed have lost any optimism they will find a job soon or end up with work they really want to do. Two-thirds struggle to pay their bills. Nearly half have had to deal with such major personal problems as moving to cheaper housing or fighting depression. 

The Great Recession has swelled an unhappy clan of Americans: the unemployed.  That's what his audience wants to hear. Americans name unemployment as the most important problem facing the nation; the economy in general ranked second.

There have always been people looking for work, but not since the government began to keep records have there been so many jobless, and never before have they been out of work for such extended periods of time. The unemployment crisis entering its third year has hit Americans in every age group, at every education level and in every region of the country.

Unemployment benefits provide only a modest safety net. In the survey, 21% say they receive benefits, and 11% say they received them in the past. The other two-thirds haven't received any jobless benefits, either because they didn't apply or weren't eligible. "We're all scared," says Alice Fisher of Peru, Ind., who was called in the poll. "I know I'm scared."

She lost her job at a local manufacturing firm when it moved most of its production facilities to Mexico. At 59, she has enrolled in a college in hopes of improving her job prospects by learning computer skills, though the first week of classes left her feeling discouraged and overwhelmed.

Who is America’s unemployed?

♦81% are actively looking for a job
♦62% haven’t received unemployment benefits
♦60% predict they’ll have to settle for a job they don’t want
♦49% predict they won’t find a job in the next four weeks
♦40% manage to pay their bills, but with difficulty
♦25% most recently worked in the service sector
♦23% have moved to less expensive housing
♦21% have sought medical help for stress or other major health problems
♦16% have been looking for work for more than a year
♦16% have applied for more than 50 jobs”

Sadly to say, President Obama’s State of the Union Address was all show, and no real substances for jobs creations.

Obama talked about investing in jobs for the future, but unfortunately there were no immediate solutions for jobs creations, for the 15 million unemployed and millions more of the underemployed. I was even more troubled by GOP/Republicans, they looked confused and obviously they have no plan for jobs creations either.

Okay folks, let me put it bluntly, I’ve never seen such disgraceful acts of political hypocrisy and showboating coming from our politicians in time of economical disasters in our country.

Is it me or what? I was reading the body languages coming from both political parties and it wasn’t pretty at all. While I was listening to President Obama speak, I was keeping an eye on House Speaker John Boehner’s reactions to the president’s speech.

What I saw coming from Speaker Boehner, it’s the same old grand GOP. When Obama talked about eliminating billions of taxpayer subsidies going to oil industries, (four billion dollars to be exact,) using the money for green job creations, when other congressmen started clapping their hands, Speaker Boehner frowned and didn’t clap his hands.

The body language I got from Boehner’s actions, his Party is still stuck with big business and special interests and is into subsidizing Wall Street.

Then Obama talked the talk about creating new industries for jobs, getting off dependencies of foreign oil, with renewable energies and invest more into education and so forth. Here’s the problem I have with President Obama, what’s the point of creating new industries in America, when they are actively leaving the country, or being outsourced for cheaper labor? This is the elephant in the room, these politicians want to ignore.

Case study in Obama hypocrisy; recently, GM to invest $540 million in engine plant in Mexico “The Mexican subsidiary of US automaker General Motors said on Thursday that it planned to invest $540 million to manufacture two types of low-emission engines at its plant in Toluca.

The project will create 500 direct and 500 indirect jobs, and it will allow the plant to produce engines featuring new technologies that consume less fuel and operate more efficiently, the automaker said in a statement.”

All of the president’s proposals and ideas are decades ahead our time, what do we do in the meantime? There’s was nothing to help alleviate current high unemployment. There are no doubt the parties are way out of touch with every day Americans and the unemployed.

What we didn’t hear in President Obama’s speech, the constant outsourcing of jobs to China, Mexico and abroad. Obama’s a hypocrite; when Democrats were in power; they could have done something about the 4 billion dollars subsidies going to the oil industries, but they didn't.

When GOP/Republicans get ready to cut deficit costs, I wonder if Americans will stand by seeing their welfare being cut, while Wall Street and the oil industry’s receiving 4 billion dollars.