The recent passage of the JOBS Act through Congress is, needless to say, good for business. In particular, good for small businesses. Small businesses do more hiring than the big corporations do, so it just made sense to spark hiring amongst small businesses. Ok, so tell you something you didn't know right. Why all of the sudden was it so simple to get the JOBS Act through Capitol Hill if so much gridlock exists?...you know why, it's an election year and both sides [left and right] are posturing for votes. Each wants to make the other look as an obstructionist to economic recovery. Unfortunately or better stated, fortunately, in this case small businesses have been trapped in the middle as political pawns. So given the passage of the JOBS Act, it's not hard believe that the latest hiring frenzy news is actually real. Hummh, now just wonder if it wasn't an election year, then what? Better yet, what happens next year after inauguration is all said and done? Who knows for sure but if you’re looking for work you had better find that new job now while the "getting is good."

Sounds like a dream come true, huh...to quit the job you love to hate an become an entrepreneur. Maybe your passion is photography, graphic design, antique/specialty cars(Xzibit's you know pimp my ride), boutique ownership, real estate brokerage or whatever. What's the key to making that happen? Well it sure isn't cash...oh no, you don't need cash. Who needs cash when you have Obamacare. Let Pelosi tell it, Obamacare paves the way to entrepreneurialism. After all how can you become an entrepreneur if you don't have health care and get sick in the middle of your dream project. You know what happens...the debt man cometh and taketh everything you have and assigns any remaining debt to your young ones. Who cares, if your kids are 5 and 6 years old...the parents got sick on the job and owes the debt man. Sounds absurd but it definitely can happen...and has happened before. That's why the Supreme Court needs to hear this matter, right?

Like it our not the Supreme Court is going to make a decision that will affect your current job (if you're lucky to have a job) or perhaps influence your entrepreneurial dreams in the future. Affordable health care may be an important issue for job growth and small business (from different angles) but it's hard to explain why the Supreme Court needs to hear this matter when the number one reason for failed startups is --- lack of funding. While the Supreme Court is at it --- why not look at how the lack of funding hampers entrepreneurialism, since Pelosi and others have tied entrepreneurialism to the health care mandate debate.

pretty much everywhere you look today there is talk about the increase in jobs and hiring. So why is unemployment still high? Go figure. Not only is unemployment still high it is virtually unchanged. In the USA, as a whole, 227,000 new jobs apparently wasn't enough to move the unemployment rate from 8.3% not even .1% come on...Some states like New York and New Jersey are seeing declines in unemployment. Take the 139,400 jobs added last year in New York, which was enough to drive down unemployment to 8.2%. Let us not forget about the 13,300 jobs added last month in New Jersey, which almost erased the 18,700 jobs the state lost for the whole year of 2010. Finding a job in the northeast sure has gotten a lot easier but here again, if some states are seeing major gains like New York and New Jersey then why is the national unemployment rate refusing to move south? The first thought is that maybe so many other states are doing so bad that increases in jobs and hiring in only a few states doesn't make a dent in the big unemployment picture. Makes one kind of wonder who stands to gain by unemployment rate remaining high? Uhhh oh, who said that? It wasn't me...

Although unemployment is trending downward, it is still not enough and not fast enough. So what's the problem? The economy itself...the private sector is simply too private to fix. Deal with it people. This is democracy at work. Isn't that what the masses wanted...to be free of government control? Well here you have it. That's not to suggest that having the government control every element of what employers can and cannot do and when they will do it. Conversely, it is simply a reflection of reality. It is what it is.

Why then do so many people fault the government when jobs are not created fast enough? Unfortunately, too many people are misinformed, miseducated, and others just simply brain dead. The private sector is called private for a reason. The Feds have little control over what goes on in the private sector. Guess what? The private sector knows that very well. Moreover, high or higher unemployment is good for the private sector. People who have jobs are scared to death to quit and put up with a lot of crap to keep a job. Wage increases are virtually unheard of during high unemployment periods. On the contrary, salary cuts are popular during high unemployment periods as is increased levels of unpaid overtime. All this translates into higher profit margins for companies at the expense of workers; most of the time middle class workers.

Wake up and smell the coffee. The private sector has little incentive to post a lot of jobs and hire a bunch of unemployed people when their doing just fine with the workers already on the payroll. If the whiners and complainers really wanted change then they would not have voted the wealthy special interest favoring officials into office during the most recent mid-term elections. Therefore, the real problem is the none other than ignorant voters. Now factor in that the private sector is simply too private to fix and you have a recipe for bad employment news for a while to come. Maybe voters will get smarter -- one day. Keep hope alive!