It’s President Obama According to Job Seekers
With just more than a week until the presidential election, more and more polls seem to be indicating that Barack Obama will likely be moving into the White House come January. This trend is reinforced among job seekers according to a recent Beyond.com poll. The poll, comprised of over 38,000 job seekers/registered voters shows Sen Obama with 53% to McCain’s 33%.
Here’s part of the press release from Beyond.com, to read more or to join Beyond’s discussion click here.
Everyone in America is feeling the pressure of the economic crisis, especially job seekers that are currently looking for a job during a time when no one is hiring and the national unemployment rate is on the rise. As the economy continues to decline, job seekers are realizing the need for change, and are putting their faith in Barack Obama to help revitalize the economy and stabilize the job market. In a previous poll, Beyond.com reported 86 percent of professionals believe that the economy and job market will improve as a result of the 2008 Presidential election.
“Job seekers have a lot at stake with the upcoming election, and are taking a stance on which Presidential candidate would be the best leader for America,” says Rich Milgram, CEO of Beyond.com. “There is no question in anyone’s mind that change is what our country needs to pull through this economic recession, which is why the majority of job seekers are voting for Obama in the hopes that it will help improve the economy and get them back to work as soon as possible.”
Until next time..
Because I said so; Not Always Enough
As a father of two, I’ve uttered the words ‘because I said so’ more than a few times. Usually after some amount of discussion and/or negotiations or at the point where I’ve just had enough and want something done. It’s not always popular and is usually only used as a last resort.
Last week President Bush suggested we as taxpayers pony up some $700 billion to bail out the financial markets and the logic he used was basically because he said so. In his speech he essentially said if we didn’t do this then we would see the ‘Great Depression II’ which would be worse than the first. What he didn’t tell us was exactly how $700 million would fix the problem or what they would do with the money or how this would benefit you and me.
Yesterday, after a weekend of trying to hammer out an agreement, Congress decided not to pass the bailout bill. Evidently because President Bush said so, wasn’t good enough for them. I’m not a financial expert, but it seems to me that if we’re going to be asked to spend that kind of money we should 1. know exactly how it’s going to be spent and be comfortable that the right people have oversight on said spending and 2. I think we should have time to think about it and more importantly Congress should spend some time discussing it. I don’t think we have to rush into anything just because the president says the sky is falling.
The bottom line is that in a capitalist market, sometimes businesses succeed and make billions (see Exxon/Mobil et al) and sometimes businesses fail (see the airline industry and now the banking industry). Now granted there are some businesses that we need to try to help, but when I wrote out $700 billion on a piece of paper, that was a whole bunch of zeroes. We should definitely use caution and I think we have every right to get that money back in a reasonable timeframe.
Now some would say we’ve got to do this and that the consumer is as much if not more to blame as the banks. I take issue with that. The banks made the loans, so in my opinion they bare the biggest burden. Anyone who has ever financed a car of home knows they aren’t just issuing blank checks. There’s a qualification process and if they bent that process to make more loans and now some of those loans have failed, well guess what? That’s their mess to clean up and maybe they don’t deserve to be in business, and their CEO’s definitely don’t deserve mulit-million dollar severence packages. What do you think?
Until next time…
The Stage is Set!
Last week the Democrats held their convention and to no one’s surprise nominated Barack Obama and Joe Biden as their candidates for president and vice president. They made further news when Obama delivered his acceptance speech in front of over 85,000 crazed supporters at Denver’s Invesco Field (home of the Denver Bronco’s) in a production that ran a close second the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies, without the fake fireworks and lip syncing…I think. Maybe he is a rock star.
This week the Republicans had their turn as they stormed the Twin Cities amid news that nominee John McCain had selected Sara Palin, governor of Alaska as his running mate. Before anyone of could say ‘who the hell is Sara Palin?’ every media outlet in the country was killing themselves to break a news story about the first term governor. It’s truly amazing, since she was announced a week ago today we’ve learned the following: she’s an ultra conservative who opposes abortion, doesn’t believe man is the cause of global warming, wants to teach creationism in schools, is a proponent of ’strong’ family values, has five children, the oldest heading off to fight in Iraq, the youngest a five month old with down syndrome, her 17 year old daughter is five months pregnant, her husband is a big outdoor sports guy who was arrested 20 years ago for DUI and once belonged to an Alaskan Successionist group, in 18 months as governor she’s already under investigation by Alaska’s state legislature to determine if she fired a public safety commissioner after he declined to fire a state trooper who had divorced her sister. Whew! John McCain has been in the Senate 25 years and I’m not sure we know this much about him.
So now we have 60 days until the election. In that time we’ll hear plenty more about who does and doesn’t have enough experience, who’s eye glasses cost $700, who’s really all about change, and on and on. We’ll get three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate and chances are we all will know more about Alaska than we ever imagined. It may be a circus, but it won’t be dull. So have you decided who you’re voting for? Do you think any of them can fix our problems?
Until next time…
