Why do democrats think that unemployment can't be fixed within 2 years?

They don't think it can be fixed because they don't know how to fix it . They also realize that their outrageous spending sucks money from the economy and hinders the problem . The Democrats still want to spend and grow federal government at the expense of the American workforce .

We need to stop putting the boot on the throat of businesses at let them remain competitive . We need to stop over regulating banks and let them choose who they want to loan to . Barney Frank and Chris Dodd put the nails in our economy with their lame ideas . A more simpler flat tax of 4-5 % with no deductions should be imposed on EVERYONE to pay most of the bills . A second tax bracket with deductions allowed to pay the rest of the bill .

Because there is no need to rehire people in the private sector when there is no demand and businesses have learned they can get more work out of less people by increasing the variety of work assigned to a position.

Now the Republicans with their desire to cut government has decided to try and cut entire government bureaus. That will increase unemployment.

So, logic tells you if we decrease government employment at the same time we face a decrease in the need for private sector employment those people will be on unemployment whereas before they were consumers, paying taxes, they will now be dependent on the government and revenues will be down and they will cut back on consumption, which will further reduce the needs of private business to hire more people than they need.

Taxes may come into play later, but tax law don't always result in taxes paid. Robots might not make demands, but they won't buy product either. An interesting way for business to bite itself.

There is too much interest in the bottom line and very little desire to simply make a decent profit, instead there is more of a desire to show absurd and unsustainable increases in profit.

Most of the regulations and laws are written following, not in anticipation of some malfeasance or fraud, so they are reactionary. Business does the deed and when people say "that's awful, there ought to be a law'' that's when the law gets written.

>I read what you wrote. I want to respond in this manner. Unemployment is not a political issue. It is not a Republican OR Democratic issue. It is an economic issue and a business issue. Until corporations (and other business entities) decide to invest in American labor again, there won't be any real movement towards lowering unemployment. Sure, you can mess with tax incentives and let corporations and business use the environment and the infrastructure for free, without paying their fair share as a community citizen.

When a corporation (as we have seen so often), plays one state off against another state, one city against another, one region against another, in building a factory or whatever, all we end up doing is giving them a free ride. They build a factory, fill it full of robots and computers, use our resources and infrastructure for free, and hire almost no one. If they built the same factory in China, they would hire 1000 people to work in it because they can get dirt cheap slave labor there...or Vietnam or wherever. I saw this happen over and over again here in Oregon, where large foreign electronics company's were given basically a free ride - no they didn't have to pay taxes, and NO they didn't hire hardly anybody and YES, they left the second they thought they couldn't make enough profit. Government is stupid (not Democrats or Republicans -just government) because they let this happen.

It's not going to change for America until we stop treating each other like "enemies," or what I call "venimies" for venomous enemies. Until we stop being partisan, we aren't going to have any solutions - so its time to stop blaming because of poltical party and start working towards solutions which do NOT cater to corporate manipulation. But on a broader scene, it has to do with how we have encouraged business to leave America by giving them incentives to leave and take their business to foreign nations...as far as I am concerned, NAFTA and all the other trade agreements we have made over the last few years, are the REAL problem that has caused us to loose millions of high paying jobs. That is what we have to get rid of - these treaties we have signed.

It doesn't matter what tax incentives you give business, they will always want more and more and more - because, profit is driven by greed and when business is run by greed and having no sense of loyalty to America or any other nation, you will never get them to work with us. Corporations you see, are like a privatley owned government. That is how they should be treated - entraprenureal dictatorships.

There's a difference between lowering the unemployment rate and fixing it. Also where is your source saying democrats believe this? Please don't say Fox News.

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It seems like you're ranting about things I didn't say. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else. If the unemployement rate goes down 1% it was lowered. But there would still be a problem with unemployment. I am not debating Reagan's merits, I am simply stating that there is a difference between lowering unemployment and fixing it. I fully believe the unemployment rate will improve within the next 2 years. But fixed? Doubtful.

I hardly think deregulating banking in our situation would do any good....People lost both houses and cars. You need cars to get to work, especially where I live. People also get taken advantage of in bad times (loan mods, anyone?). That makes it even harder to get back on track. There are a lot of things that need to be fixed, but the greed will never go away. Obama is only one person. He can't make everyone happy, and he can't fix eight years of screw ups by another person, who everyone so conveniently forgets, in only two years. The people need to help themselves too, by having some common sense and stop waiting for the government to come fix their boo boos.

We are trying Reagan's model right now. Welcome to it. Times have changed, when Reagan was president, globalization and off-shoring were not as in full swing as they are now. Automation technology was not where it is today. The fact is, today's modern economy doesn't create jobs well, period. This is why unemployment won't be fixed within 2 years, no matter what is done.

On the subject of unemployment, continually paying people who don't work isn't going to kickstart the economy either.

350 million americans...

presuming 1.5 children per househould?

350 million / 3.5 = 100 million working age adults...

9% unemployment means 9 million unemployed

of which...

8 million jobs were outsourced under republicans...

if you honestly think that republicans will re acquire 8 million industrial jobs that took 8 years to leave..in only two years...they you're only fooling yourself...