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Jobless rate tops 10 percent for first time since '83

And to think that this administration and congress want to raise our taxes when we can't even feed our kids just goes to show how uninformed they really are. The only solution is to lesson the role of government to let us get on our feet again.

Thank God for this Hope and Change from our very own Messiah courtesy of the demolitioncrats!!! Remember how awful things were with Bush? Remember when we had jobs? Those were bad times alright!!

Here's to the worst president in history!! BHO. This new years celebration will be the biggest and the best!! It's the year we can shut down these communists!!!

How's everyone liking the "hope 'n change" now?

Unemployment is now 10.2%. But that's OK because the recession is over - Obama said so. Your problem is you just don't have enough hope and change in your life.

I do remember the Bush years. That's when this snowball started rolling.

@Bad News: Who's taxes has this administration and congress said they are going to raise?

Just for the record, this isn't all Obama's fault. It was happening under Bush's watch as well. If you want to start shooting arrows, shoot them at the Federal Reserve and the dynamic duo of Greenspan and Bernanke. They caused the economic bubble that burst beginning in 2007. Bernanke is creating the mother of all bubbles now, so we may be looking forward to the Greatest Depression.

I love both hope and change. You're daily cheap shots, which have been motivated by Fox News, has reinforced not a dislike of president Obama, but of the hateful conservative media that play on racism, ignorance and fear. I'm unemployed.

We saw republican government rejecting federal dollars to help their unemployed citizens. It would be much worst if conservatives were in power.

If we had done what the conservative wanted, unemployment would be at 17% and climbing.

I always let performance influence my views. Bush seemed like a nice guy, but he was a failure. Conservatives elected him after listening to the same media that attacks Obama for saluting the coffins of our returning dead. Have you ever heard the country song:"your walking on the fighting side of me?"

Conservatives caused this crash. I know, I researched it. Fox News was using the Community Reinvestment Act. They omitted this passed passed with a veto proof majority by republicans. The real killer was the Commodities Futures Modernization Act the Phil Gramm put slipped into another Bill in the last minutes before Christmas recess.

Honorable people blame only those who deserve it.

TO "xscribe | 9:03 a.m." Obama said that he was going to raise taxes only on the rich. However, since going into office, he has either supported or allowed taxes to be increased on products that poor people use more than rich people. He also has supported a climate bill, which, is just a tax increase but is called carbon credits.

Also, the Bush tax cuts benefitted all tax payers. Obama has no desire to maintain that tax cut. This, in effect is a tax increase without having to vote for a tax increase.

It appears that what Obama says, and what he does are opposite things.

Yes sir, the best selling book "The Audacity of Hope" has a small correction in the title to "The Audacity of HYPE" thus more closely mirroring reality. The great teleprompter king Obama is now seen to truly have no clothes on and no amount of political cover will hide him. Our "Man-Child" green horn president has managed in 1 year to drive unemployment up from 5% to over 10% ...but wait...weren't we all promised that unemployment could reach 8% unless the stimulus bill was quickly passed (without even reading it)??? Gee, 8% sounds pretty darn good right now. Obama is most certainly the most unprepared, green horn, unfit to lead president ever to inhabit the white house and all you have to do is plug your nose and look at the sorry policy decisions he has made over the past year. The guy is in WAY OVER HIS HEAD but add to that a RADICAL LIBERAL SOCIALIST AGENDA complete with the most corrupt and unpatriotic CZAR's ever appointed by a president and you get the "Obama-nation" that we now have. Some mistakes just keep on giving.....

Who was driving this economy when it went drastically off the tracks? Looks like his condition has transferred to a few bloggers.

Forgive me if I missed it, but there was a large protest in Wash DC that you guys havent even covered. Does that mean the media doesnt have responsibility to report things like that?

Anonymous at 8:17 and 8:18 - I'm glad there are some sensible people left like you. I get sick to my stomach when I read some of these posts and become amazed that people are still stuck in this "hopey" "changey" hype. That's all it ever was: HYPE. After $787 Billion he's done what? Have unemployment RISE to 10%! BO needs to go!!!

How's all that hopey changey stuff working out for you now liberals?

Haven't we had enough of this obamanation. One year out and by far the worst president in my lifetime!!

I have always heard that when faced with economic difficulties we should cut unnecessary expenses and save. And to think all this time I was way off - we should be spending til there's no "change" left. BHO " I can fix this economy with only 3 easy payments of $300 Billion." Just a week after he bragged for "creating 650K jobs, I wonder if he'll claim this milestone of 10% unemployment too?

This shows how easily the uneducated are to control. Before conservatives ruined our economy, I knew that employment was a lagging economic indication because I took economics in college.

Thanks, Obama, you have done for for the unemployed than conservatives would have done to help us through these conservative created hard times.

Conservative media as to resort to the un-American practises of lying and censoring to attack Obama.:-) If you know, what I mean.

Fox News and conservative media rely on freedom of the press and of speech. They deny these basic treasured American rights to others. Person, I would have to quit any employed that violated these rights of others. I love my country too much to sell out its ideas for a few pieces of gold cast before me.

There as reason you don't know anyone named Judas.

@xscribe: "whos taxes has this admin said they will raise?" Who cares what they said. What we need to look at is what they do, not what they say. They lie!
Oximoron for the day: Jobless recovery.
The politicians are bent on destroying our economy. With the hope and change they are giving us I fully expect to see unemployment go much higher.

Our Obama, who art in office,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy Presidency come,
thy will be done,
in the US as it is in the UN
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our mortgages,
as we mock those who would speak against us.
And lead us not into capitalism,
but deliver us from Bush.
For thine is the Presidency, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen

To "Earl | 9:11 a.m. " just for the record, Obama was a Senator from 2006 until he was sworn in as President. During that time he didn't speak out against the Greenspan, Bernake, or Bush policies that were creating the bubble.

If we hit a second Great Depression, it will not be just the policies of Bernake sending us there. You also have the boneheads in Congress, and the policies that Obama has set up taking us there.