The longer unemployment stays high, which is currently at 8.1%, the more pressure is on both jobseekers and employers. From a jobseeker's standpoint, most cannot weather the storm of 6 months or more of unemployment, which means they will eventfully become less hopeful. When that happens it means job seekers are more likely to say "Can somebody anybody give me job?" That mentality is simply bad for business. Why? Quite simply after going through months [and for some years] of thrashing in the job market if/when jobseekers do become employed, they are more fearful of losing their job for any and everything, which means performance suffers. This is precisely why, the private should not sit around idle waiting on election results and political climate changes but instead realize how sitting on the sidelines in contributing to the very thing employers fear most - a bad hire. Now is just as good of a time as any to put some action behind hiring needs through posting job vacancies. Plus, it's a supply/demand thing which means discounted salaries [discounts are good, exploitation is bad] for hiring now versus waiting until the next economic upswing.

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!