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. Continue reading →