So what's the latest rant across the digital airwaves and coming off the presses -- how about firing is slowing down. Okay but when add the fact that virtually no hiring is taking place, the question comes to mind...what is the point? Perhaps its politics or perhaps its a case of bona fide error but the fact of the matter is that there's a lot of deflection from the fact that hiring is not happening in any significant numbers to move the Country out of the Great Recession.

As if the lack of hiring situation isn't bad enough the Feds are expected to announce its January report, this week, on the hiring scene for January 2010. Already in anticipation of January's job losses or the optimists, job growth numbers, the pundits are already coming to the forefront with statements like "...its not uncommon for job loss announcements to be made at the start of a New Year..." Hummh, if you recall right here at the Job Seeker Blog you were advised that job cut announcements for January would happen. So why all the rhetoric in November and December? Perhaps it was the Holidays and maybe a gesture of good will to keep peoples spirits up during the Holiday season.

So now what? Walmart is axing over 11,000 jobs while Verizon is cutting enough jobs the size of a small township i.e. Verizon announced 14,000 plus job cuts. Well the answer is that there is not silver bullet job growth answer. Unfortunately, there really is only so much the Feds can do in terms of sparking hiring without increasing spending which doesn't appear to be too popular. On the other hand, job seekers want jobs and small business want patrons so they can hire but no one seems to want the spending that is required as a catalyst to make that happen. Of course, there is the alternate, which is to wait on the private sector to step up the hiring. How much success has happened there? Why would the private sector increase hiring when so many people are scared to death to loose their jobs that workers are producing more and more output for less and less income. Wake up people, yea we might be experiencing slow firing but we're also looking down the no hiring road. BTW - did you notice how all of the sudden the "recession" has turned into the "Great Recession"... i didn't get the memo either.