The headline in today’s Roll Call kind of said it all:  “All Talk, No Action on Jobs.”  The key point of the article is “With no money to spend, lawmakers talking about job creation aren’t likely to accomplish anything unless a plan is swept into the deficit talks dominating Capitol Hill.”

Wonderful.  Of course the Democrats are blaming the Republicans and the Republicans are blaming the Democrats.

As voters, we get to decide who really cares about jobs – and you bet it will be a campaign issue.

Of course the folks not doing anything to help with job creation have jobs, so why should they care?  Many folks don’t think about jobs while they have one.  I used to be like that.  Once you lose the job or the job ends you start thinking about it more and more.  Throw in a couple of “non-selection” letters and hear a politician say people are lazy who get unemployment benefits and soon a person gets ticked off, or depressed, or both.

By the way Mr. or Ms. Politician, I’d trade the $11 average per hour I receive for being on unemployment for the $45 average per hour I was receiving for doing a job.

The future does not look too bright, either.  Last night on the CBS Evening News we learned that “The U.S. Conference of Mayors said Monday that there are 48 metropolitan areas that won’t see the jobs lost in this recession return until 2020.”  Read that story HERE.

This video shows how job losses spread across the country county by county like a plague since January 2007 (use the full screen mode to see it best):

You can see the CBS Evening News report using this video HERE.  This will be a great campaign video to use against those folks who took office in 2007.

The good thing about all this (if there is a good thing) is that “jobs” will be on the front burner for the next few years.