Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

We are facing congressional failure. It’s primarily the fault of the Democrats because they control both houses of Congress. Instead of focusing on the number one problem in the country they focused on health care. Of course health care is important but the first issue is money to pay the daily bills.

California has a civilian workforce of over 18 million people. 12.5% are unemployed. According to state statistics employment in the manufacture of durable goods has declined by 9.6% in the past year. The decline in non-durable goods employment has been 7.4%.

Everywhere we look, we see that the goods we buy are manufactured in another country. Services are no different. Have you called Citibank, Earthlink, or Dell? Help lines are provided in India or Philippines. Pricewaterhouse Coopers has outsourced their data maintenance to India.

The highly respected Institute for Supply Management monthly report has been above 50% starting in August 2009. A number of 50% or higher is supposed to indicate a growing economy. While new orders have provided a positive situation for the companies, it has not translated into needed jobs. ISM, the AMA, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other manufacturing associations need to work together by hiring lobbyists who will fight for laws rewarding American manufacturing and penalizing imported goods.

When you phone or email your congressman and senators you need to yell at them “Jobs. What are you doing to encourage job creation in this country?”