Jobs: Republicans Destroy Jobs, Obama Ignores Jobs, America Demands Jobs, Cut the Crap and Create Jobs

I have recently written a series of columns about jobs with titles such as "An angry dissent," and today's disastrous numbers are a political game changer. All incumbents of both parties are threatened if jobs are not created in large numbers by election day 2012.

This is one of the great outrages in political history. Neither party is now proposing a major jobs program. While the Republican party at the national and state level are doing everything they can to destroy jobs, the Democratic Party is failing to fight for jobs with the intensity that Democrats have historically done. Meanwhile the Democratic president does photo ops, Twitter events, and mini-jobs programs of the magnitude of school uniform trivia.

It is an outrage, a crime, a sin against decency and a defamation against everything I personally believe that nobody, repeat nobody, in the high councils of politics gives a damn about those who have been jobless for 99 weeks. This violates my faith as a Christian, where we are supposed to help those in need. It violates my values as a Democrat, where we are supposed to fight for jobs. It violates the most common sense economics, which proves that help for 99ers provides more stimulus than tax cuts for the wealthy, because the 99ers would have to spend the money to live.

The president's political brain David Plouffe now suggests that voters will not vote based on the jobless rate. This is ridiculous, absurd, delusional and symptomatic of a president far out of touch with the realities of working class Americans and is clueless in confronting Republicans, who believe in firing police, firefighters, teachers and librarians.

The jobless rate is a scandal.

The plight of the 99ers is a moral outrage.

The disastrous jobless numbers today will add to the political earthquake of... READ ON

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