'Long way to go' in taming US joblessness: White House

[The Northerner]

Source: Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States has "a long way to go" in taming its stubbornly high unemployment rate, despite positive jobs creation news last week, top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers said on Sunday.

"We've got a long way to go. We've inherited a terrible situation, the most pressing economic problems since the Great Depression in our country," Summers told CNN television's "State of the Union" program.

Summers called efforts to bring down the high unemployment, which has been stuck for months at 9.7 percent, the "preoccupation" of President Barack Obama's administration.

"There's a great deal we've got to do, and we've got to do it with all of the energy that we can," Summers said.

"It is the president's preoccupation to put people back to work," he said. "That's what the legislation he signed into law -- to give incentives to businesses to hire people who've been out of work -- was all about.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100404/ts_alt_afp/useconomyunemployment

[flyarm]

1. Geithner was even more doom and gloom on Thursday! but don't tell the propagandists here

on DU..they want you to think the 80,000 of the temp and part time jobs this month mean the recession is over!!

shhhh..just roll your eyes ...and put them on ignore.



there were approx 80,000 real full time employment jobs gained ..the rest were part time and temp census jobs./..those are not jobs with any security and they are not equivalent to jobs that have been lost in the past 3 years....that is nothing to cheer about when we have over 8 million Americans who can't get jobs!

[Lost4words]

7. isnt that the truth! nt

[high density]

14. Yeah 'cuz being a Debbie Downer is so much more productive

At what threshold will you "ignore the happy people" people actually be happy yourself?

[flyarm]

19. Save your crap for Obama's own people! Geithner was on the Today show..so are we now supposed to

Ignore Obama's people..please tell us the f'ing rules you want us to live by, will ya?????????? MAYBE YOU SHOULD WRITE THEM DOWN..SO WE CAN ALL FOLLOW YOURRRRRRRRRRR RULES !!!!!!!!!!!!

Tell Matt Lauer not to have Geithner on ..will you please..or tell Obama to keep his Debbie Downers off my / our fecking Tv's and not to tell us the damn truth ..will that work for you?????????????

SO NOW ARE YOU BANNING US FROM WATCHING THE TODAY SHOW IF GEITHNER IS ON IT?????????is that what you are telling us?? ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW YOUR RULES AND IGNORE WHEN HE IS SAYING WE HAVE A JOBLESS RECOVERY AND IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD FOR JOBS FOR A LONG TIME????? because that is what Obama's guy said..not me..it is what Geithner said!!!!!!!!!!!!

So now we have to censor what Obama's own people are Doing and Saying to PLEASE YOUR PURIAN EYES AND EARS?????????

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU ???????????

KEEP YOUR COMPLAINTS FOR THIS WHITE HOUSE..THEY APPROVE OF THEIR ADMINISTRATORS GOING ON TV AND TELLING THIS SHIT!

AND DON'T DARE EVEN THINK I CAN NOT OR WILL NOT REPEAT WHAT THEY SAY..THEY BEING GEITHNER..AND Lawrence Summers

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, TO THINK YOU CAN CENSOR OTHER PEOPLE?????????

That is sick!

[jody]

2. "a long way to go" ! Does anyone really, really believe our economy has started to recover? n/t

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[jody]

8. I prefer "realist" & "other" but then I've spent decades reading economic indicators. Have a great

day. :hi:

[flyarm]

21. No ..on Fla news Thursday we broke another unemployment record statewide 12.2%

and shhhhhh ..CNN just reported this story about Larry Summers saying what the OP reported..but i don't want to break the rules of certain people here..that are now telling us what we should and can post.. about reporting truth..don't want to be a debbie downer...now do we??????????

My county is around 16% unemployment..but shhhhhhhhhh...........

[change_notfinetuning]

3. That Summers is even speaking for Obama says it all. Hopeless & Changeless!

Soon to be joined by the other guy - Clueless.

[Rapier09]

4. Tax the businesses

Tell they put people back into work.

It is a great idea.

[njlib]

6. Repeal the trade agreements that have screwed us over

and stop letting the corporations run the country. We have to start making things again.

[davidwparker]

18. +1

[SocialistLez]

20. +1

Of course we know how far policies that HELP the average Americans go in terms of Congress..........

[Better Today]

9. Then friggin' do something about it, and hey, at the same time you can do something

about our crumbling infrastructure.

[salguine]

12. Can you imagine that 700 billion dollars going into a new green infrastructure and

towards fixing roads and bridges? We could have done it all, and the country would have both put people to work and had something of value to show for it. But that wouldn't have made the piggies richer.

[Better Today]

16. Oh yeah, I can imagine, but it will be only that, alas.

[defendandprotect]

10. We need a SUPERFUND for America's homeless and unemployed . . . tax corporations!!

[salguine]

11. The whole problem with this White House is that they want to

fix joblessness in such a way as to not interfere with corporate profits, i.e., bringing jobs back from China and India. Same way they want to fix health care but only in such a way as to not interfere with corporate profits. Which is to say not at all. The only solutions they see to anything are ones that don't interfere with corporate profits. And since corporations are pretty much the root cause of virtually all our economic problems, nothing is really going to get properly and decisively solved.

[amandabeech]

13. Would Obama support a Constitutional Amendment for publicly financed elections?

Anyone heard him say anything on that topic?

I don't think that we can make much progress without it.

[Mithreal]

15. +1

[salguine]

26. No, because that would be the biggest threat to corporate profits in history. And we

know who Obama gets his marching orders from.

[Coyote_Bandit]

17. +1,000,000

I'm done with the corporate loyalists.

I want someone in office the serves to advance and protect my flesh and blood needs and priorities - which have very little to do with friggin corporate profits.....

[flyarm]

22. +1! eom

[Pharaoh]

25. bingo~

spot on salguine:toast:

[northernlights]

23. thank gawd my 1 channel isn't CNN

so I didn't accidentally stumble into that effing bastards face. Mighthave wrecked my teevee.

Why is Summers out there yacking, making us all :puke:

You'd think Obama would at least put someone out there to spread the economy lies that we don't totally despise. :puke: :puke: :puke:

[flyarm]

24. don't watch TV then ..it was on my 5pm local news! eom

[ixion]

27. that's putting it mildly, at best