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NYP: Dear John: I'd like to tell you what I think about the employment stuff. I'm a retired guy and I do a bit of walking. When you're walking, as you know, you're not moving very fast. So you get to see a lot of different things that you wouldn't if you were driving.

Well, recently I walked up to Red Bank, NJ, from Belmar to get theater tickets -- 12-13 miles or so. What I saw on Route 35 was all sorts of stores in little malls shut down, with signs out to the road advertising store space and construction sites that obviously hadn't been worked for a long time.

Everyone I know has someone in their family out of work. People are continuing to be laid off. There are 'for sale' signs on homes all over. And the government is trying to tell us things are on the upswing?

As used to be said, "If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you." T.B.


Dear T.B.: And if you had a bridge, you could raise tolls so that people could be even more broke.

Look, as you know you are preaching to the choir when you write about how the employment figures coming from Washington don't reflect reality.

But in all honesty, things have gotten a little better. That's to be expected because Washington has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in an attempt to stimulate the economy. Let's hope the (tiny) improvement continues and that all the money our officials spent doesn't come back to haunt us.

All those stores and buildings you see on Rte. 35 probably shouldn't have been built in the first place. And since we can't tear them down, they'll just have to stay empty as a vivid reminder of our stupidity.

It was nice talking with you, Mr. Gump.

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Comments (1)

barbours pond
05/23/2010 10:42 AM

The news about the Unemployment figures have been spun ever since the lying boobs and Obama have come to Washington . His BS about it not going to go over 8 % was and is as useless a figure as telling us it is only now 9+ percent. In some states it is over 17% and will rise as the adminmistration is not the least interested in bettering American's lives.

Every time the Market rises a few bucks, Gibbs sticks out Obama's chest for him, and touts his Stimulus and buyouts. Then guess what happens ? Down the Dow goes the next day by 300 points and soon it may drop below 9000 . Get wise all you Politicos, this country rises or falls as jobs go for the Middle Class. Nothing moves for this country , unless it's people have a job to go to. And all the giveaways in the world won't change this.



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