It's ironic to hear Tea Baggers scream about the jobless rate and then blame it on Obama and the Democratic Party. These are the same people who believe government should do less and they and their minions in Congress have stood in the way of any meaningful government action to spur job creation. That leaves their blessed corporations to do the hiring. To date, all I see is corporations hording cash and opening plants in China.
To those who will say that corporations aren't hiring and are still shipping jobs to China because of high taxes, labor unions, and regulations -- that would ignore the fact that manufacturing has been descimated in the South -- where there are no labor unions, taxes are low, and regulations are meager. Which can only mean one thing, the ugly truth, is that jobs won't return to the US until wages are roughly equal to those in China and corporations are able to pollute at will. In sum, return America to the Gilded Age.