I was quite suprised to find this headline on my yahoo homepage this morning:

New jobless claims drop to 512K, lowest since Jan

So, only 1/2 million Americans lost their job this month. It is a sad day, when this is something to brag about. After these latest jobloss claims we will be up to 9.9% unemployment rate.

I am not very good at the new math, but when I went to school, after I fed the dinosaurs in the morning... this meant that 1 out of every 10 Americans dont have a job. With no end in sight. We will hit 10% by the end of next month.

As the "Stimulus" programs finish up, it will only be worse. The 3.5% growth in the economy (not the jobs) will all but be eaten up, the money put into them will be gone, and will be nothing but a debt remaining.

I hope that all of you truly review our government and who is sitting in the positions of representatives in the House this year. America has a chance to turn this around, with the right people in place.

These are supposed to be our great thinkers, not our great manipulators.

In addition, many companies are squeezing more production from their existing work forces. Productivity, the amount of output per hour worked, jumped 9.5 percent in the third quarter, the Labor Department said in a separate report. That's the sharpest increase in six years, and it enables companies to produce more without hiring extra workers.

So, in answer to the threat of increasing taxes, government interference in healthcare and the pending cap and trade, is to employ less people and expect a lot more out  of them, or lose their job.

This will only prove to produce inferior products and increase mistakes and thus failures.

I expect better from our leaders than to start producing sweat shops again.