Some days the economy looks up, most other days it looks stagnant. Compound that with massive public sector budget cuts and the picture gets uglier. Much uglier. On the other hand, whether it is through hobbies or jobs, Americans will do whatever it takes to survive and pay the bills. Few Americans have faith in the direction of the economy and more importantly, few are waiting on the economy to turnaround before making personal lifestyle changes to compensate for economic shortcomings.

Basically instead of looking to companies to provide jobs, more and more would be job seekers will be looking within...within themselves to make ends meet. Essentially, more and more entrepreneurs will come online. Then for those that do not really want to make a business out of entrepreneurship, they will just simply turn to hobbies and special talents to make up for the lost income. In doing so, many will find that more cash flow is made through hobbies than working for someone else. That would be a beautiful feeling to look not to someone else's job but to a hobby for supplemental income while enjoying the work all the same. Nice!

Make no mistake about, with or without a thriving economy Americans will get it done whether through hobbies jobs or whatever pays the bills. An unexpected turn of events could very well lead to a severe labor force shortage as more and more Americans throw in the towel as far as working for someone else goes. Long live free enterprise. Go get it.

One month the job report numbers are down and now the numbers are up. While I'm no economist, that doesn't sound like a stable economic rebound to me. That in turn raises the question -- what happened to the job security safety net? Historically that has been the Feds, but while we're trumpeting an increase in private sector hiring, at the same time the Feds are axing jobs like it's Armageddon or something. What's that all about? Hummh, maybe it's the narrow focus of bean counters at the expense of the big picture i.e. economic stability an d national security.

What do jobs have to do with national security? Well, its a little hard to ensure national security when the Pentagon is up for big budget cuts which mean massive job losses in defense. Make no mistake about it, those cuts will hurt and they will hurt badly. It's a simple reality, many US military bases are located in cities in which those bases are the primary source of revenue flow. Now what do you think is going to happen to those cities when the cash stops flowing? You guessed it, many of those towns will be hit hard economically. It's a little hard to figure out how a measly increase up to 200,000 or so private sector jobs [for November] account for the tens of billions of dollars of revenue loss for many military towns and states. Sounds like a classic case of one step forward and two steps backwards. Needless to say it just begs the question, what happened to the job security safety net? Maybe that's something the Occupy DC movement can better ask.

If you're in one of the many states with an unemployment rate at or above 9% maybe it’s time to try something new. Maybe it's time to try Virginia. Why Virginia? Well for starters how a relatively low unemployment rate just over 6%. How about the fact that Virginia has the top four counties in the country as far as median household income is concerned -- Falls Church, Fairfax, Hunterdon and Loudoun. That translates into high paying jobs. Each of the counties mentioned has median household incomes above $100k.

As far as economics goes the big money industry is service. Jobs in services include engineers, research and development, consultants, computer programming, health care and hospitality. Let us not forget about huge government presence in Virginia. You know the place where lots of politicians and lobbyist reside. Those are the people with the six figure salaries many of which don't see a need to "put your money where your mouth is"" when it comes to getting Americans back on the job. Anyway, getting a job in the Virginia metro area should be a snap for the adventurous looking for something new and worthwhile. Gas and go...just make sure it's a four cylinder car, gas is still too high. When you get there you might run into Bush's buddies who you can thank for the high gas prices.

Well if taxes are sure fire way to cause job losses, than it just begs the question on whether the current Washington debt deal is a job killer? After all, since the Feds are the only ones spending cash these days, will it really help to cut federal spending even more? Well the GOP seems to think so. In fact, the Tea Party zealots fought long and hard over the weekend for massive federal spending and no tax increases. They also fought for maintaining very unpopular corporate tax loopholes. Now we might need to call in the big gun economist across the country for this one but hey aren't we still in a recession? Last i checked, unemployed surpasses 9%. Last i checked, there were 14 million people hanging out in unemployment lines.

When was the last time so many people have been unemployed, with no hope in sight? Try the 1930s - hey wasn't that around the same time as the Great Depression? Gee I thought so. Didn't the country get out of the hole through the vision and spending of the Feds? Naw - hogwash so sayeth the GOP, we got out of that hole based on good luck and timing - yea that's it. Well from the looks of it referring to history as a example of how to manage this economic crisis is not necessary - just look to the wisdom of GOP. Who knows after the Feds are totally out of cash, maybe instead of an additional 5 - 6 million people being added to the ranks of unemployed and jobless, that instead we will magically see job growth thanks to the goodwill of corporations. Yea that's it. Why not just shut down the Feds altogether and rely on the goodwill of big corporations like say BP. Way to go GOP. So is the debt deal a job killer - according to the Tea Party rebels absolutely not. We'll get by somehow.