Jobless Labor Day; Afghan Plans; ObamaCare; Back-to-School
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Happy Labor Day as unemployment hits 9.7%, Arianna laments that a desperate middle class has also begun losing their homes, with the Obama Administration still supporting Wall Street. Observing that we've lost three million jobs -- as many as were created in prior decade, Tony says that just creating public sector work isn't going to provide enough sustainable new jobs. Bob maintains that the economy should have been Obama's priority all along. However, Matt says it no longer feels like we've fallen off a cliff and thinks the worst may be over. New Afghan plans need a major commitment to get the job done. But what does “done” mean, and what's the job? Obama is losing support on all sides on healthcare. Will reform become one-party legislation, so watered down it's not really reform? Does there have to be a public option? And, as children return to school from Summer break, does Obama want to turn your child into a communist?
Banner image: Onlookers are seen next to a mangled wreckage of a car at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Herat on September 4, 2009. Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images
Links:
- Employment Policies Institute's 'pledge of allegiance' defeat the debt ad
- Panetta asks Justice Department to investigate leaks of secrets (WT)
- Obama, Senate Democrats consider public healthcare option 'trigger' (HP)
- Boyarsky on the public component of healthcare being too anemic (TD)
- Blankley on need for cold appraisal of Afhgan situation (WP)
- CFR's Richard Haas on necessity of the Afghan war (NPR)
- Cato Institute's Malou Innocent on Afghanistan (HP)
- George Will on time to get out of Afghanistan (Washington Post)
- Defense Secretary Gates' Afghanistan assessment
- WSJ on broader unemployment figures
- WSJ economic downturn's impact on middle class
- HP on unemployment
- Florida GOP head Greer on Obama's attempt to indoctrinate students
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