Buffalo billboard petitions president for "a freakin' job"

[tonysam]

Things are getting more and more desperate. I think even if there were major tent cities built in front of the Capitol building and the White House, they STILL wouldn't get a clue:

"I need a freakin' job." That's the message President Obama saw as he arrived in Buffalo, N.Y., this afternoon for an event talking up the administration's success in creating new jobs. He also pitched Congress on approving a $30 billion credit for small-business growth.

Yet critics say Obama has been focusing his recovery efforts too narrowly and hasn't done enough to help people find work. After all, the latest job figures show 9.9 percent of the country still out of work. That inspired a group of unemployed Buffalo residents — who also have a website called INAFJ.org — to appeal to the president in the form of a billboard along the route his motorcade took into town...

Yet jobs aren't a huge priority for either party heading into the midterm campaigns, as Politics Daily's Jill Lawrence notes. That might be because other issues have taken precedence. A new Gallup poll finds that for the first time in two months, the issue of "jobs" has fallen to No. 2 on the list of issues Americans are most concerned about. The new No. 1 issue: The economy in general. White House officials defend their efforts on jobs, saying the president has been focused as much on creating new jobs as on "saving" current positions.

But here's a sign the job seekers' message to the administration may be getting through: The White House just announced Obama will travel next Tuesday to Youngstown, Ohio — where unemployment hit 15.1 percent last month, the city's highest jobless rate in more than 15 years. The focus of Obama's visit: "jobs and the economy," according to the White House.

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Yahoo News

I'll believe an improvement when I see it.

[Joanne98]

1. Why do I get the feeling this is another fake grassroots group funded by corporations!

[joeybee12]

2. Yeah, if the guy needs a job, how can he afford a billboard?

While I do agree people are really upset about the lack of jobs, this billboard is a stunt.

[tonysam]

6. Of course it is n/t

[dkf]

3. Why would corporations focus on jobs though?

They were the ones cutting. I would think that I need a freaking job people are more focused on small business.

[notadmblnd]

4. corporations are focused on jobs.

Sending them overseas, that is.

[liberal N proud]

5. Or another group trying to focus negativity on Obama

As stated above, if you need a job, a billboard is out of the question financially.

[tonysam]

7. If you bothered to read the entire article, you would know it was a GROUP

of unemployed people who got together for the billboard.

But hey, any group of unemployed people MUST be supported by corporations or the radical right because they want to "embarrass" Obama.

[meegbear]

8. It's Breitbart ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8335345

[spanone]

9. so these unemployed bozos spent thousands of dollars on a billboard?...not