The 'new normal' is old hat here in Oregon

Here is Oregon, where I reside, we have been living with this 'new normal' for quite some time now. Central Oregon, which should break away from Western libtarded Oregon has been in the grip of horrible unemployment for much longer than most of the United States. Here are the unemployment figures as of October, 2010: Deschutes County, almost 16%, Crook County, 17.9% and Jefferson County stands at 16.5%. These figures do not include the under employed and those who have given up all together. All those stimulus dollars? They have provided hardly any work and much of it has gone to immigrant and foreign works under the visa program. There have been reports that the local citizens refused or could not do alot of these jobs which were working for the timber industry. I know for a fact that this is a lie! How? I have friends who lost out to these illegal aliens and many of these jobs did not even get announced or advertised as they should have been.


So thanks obama, for absolutely nothing and now we do not have any change left in our pockets after your great sham of hope and transparency. It is time to impeach this traitor and his ilk. From the Telegraph.co.uk.

Barack Obama warns of unemployment being 'new normal' in US


Barack Obama has warned of his concern about very high unemployment being "a new normal" in the United States.


By Toby Harnden in Washington


In an interview with "60 Minutes" on CBS News, his first since the Democratic drubbing in last Tuesday's mid-terms elections, Mr Obama said that he sometimes gets "discouraged" about the poor economy but realised that it was not entirely his fault.


"There are times when I thought that the economy would have gotten better by now," he said. "You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?"

He insisted he was not worried about another depression or recession but the unemployment rate, stuck at just below 10 per cent, was a major concern.


"What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits, but they've learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire," he said.


"And as a consequence, we keep on seeing growth that is just too slow to bring back the eight million jobs that were lost. That is a danger. So that's something that I spend a lot of time thinking about."


Mr Obama resisted expressing regrets about any policy decisions he had made but spoke with the same tone of contrition he exhibited in his White House press conference last Wednesday. He suggested his focus on good policy had carried a political price.


"We were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that we stopped paying attention to the fact that, yeah, leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence and bringing them together, and setting a tone.


"We haven't always been successful at that, and I take personal responsibility for that. And it's something that I have to examine carefully as I go forward."


Mr Obama also said that he did not believe the elections had been a referendum on his presidency. "I think first and foremost, it was a referendum on the economy. And the party in power was held responsible for an economy that is still underperforming and where a lot of folks are still hurting."


Original article is here.

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