Jobless Rate Creeps Toward 10 Percent; White House Says More 'Bumps' Ahead

More bumps? Well, thanks for the heads up, Mr President. I am certain you will have plenty of gifts under your tree this year.

If you lost 100k jobs and created 39k....that is a loss of 61k jobs....how can that be a positive?

Alot of my contracts will be up soon and I will be cancelling my cell phone, tv, and taking my car insurance to bare minimum, and my last CC will be paid off next month...this country's leaders, both Republican and Democrat can kiss off!!!!! with them 2 bickering like children about the tax breaks and neither side will budge and point the finger blaiming each I will vote nothing but Independent come 2012...I am totally fed up with both sides..........

And they want to give amnesty/dream act to how many illegals.

It seems the president is rarely at the White House working, so I for one am not at all surprised. Yes, I know he "works on the road" but all the endless appearances and speeches he makes nearly daily take a huge amount of his time any way you dice it. And it seems the media and his strong supporters would rather he is talking the pretty talk than walking the hard walk.

I don't know about the country as a whole but in my household my 22 year old son and his 63 year old mother just got jobs. Both of these jobs were added to the economy, one in the government sector the other in the publishing field. Another friend just got an interview and will most likely be hired after two years of underemployment. A relative who lost her job due to budget cuts in education, got two part-time jobs. I hope things will be looking up for others. For those less fortunate, I hope that the Congress will extend unemployment benefits and pay for them with the roll back of the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Multimillionnaires do not need a tax break. Happy Harriet

NEW ADMINISTRATION AHEAD 2012

Just last month Obama claimed job creation was at, "a steady rate"...

I am one of the "99ers", although I do not receive any kind of welfare. My husband does not make enough alone to pay bills and put food on the table, however we are just over the "numbers" to qualify for any assistance. I have worked consistently for 15 years. I have never been on unemployment before, nor have I ever had food stamps, welfare checks or any other kind of government assistance. I put myself through school while working full-time. Yes, there are and always will be people out there who will work whatever system they can, whether it be unemployment, disability or welfare. However, with the numbers of unemployed out there (which I know are much higher than listed, giving that they don't count 99ers or people who have given up looking for work) you have to understand that we are not ALL working the system. I have spent hours upon hours degrading myself looking for jobs where the people suspected I was on unemployment and were flat out rude to me. In some cases they refused to give me their names to file, which is a requirement. I am sick to death of people who aren't going through this throwing rude comments at us. If we are just abusing the system, give your cushy job up to one of us and you find another job. You will quickly see it is not as easy as it looks.

OK, so the situation sucks... What are we going to do about it? Come on, let's hear your ideas for putting people back to work! Republicans, where are the jobs? If tax cuts were so good at creating jobs, why is it that this recession produced such a deep and prolonged jobless situation? Let's get real! Over the past 40 to 50 years we have allowed our manufacturing and production sector of our economy to decline and have shipped those jobs offshore. China is struggling to try to keep up with their rapid economic growth, while we are struggling to get our economy going... What's wrong with this picture? What ideas to turn this situation around are coming out of the Council of Economic Advisors?