Dear Editor,

I can’t stand the lies anymore! Every week there are new claims for unemployment of over 300,000. But the White House and the whole press corps will focus on 185,000 “new jobs created, up 15,000 from the week before,” and so “the economy is improving.” What? Really?

Is the press corps so stupid or complacent that they can’t subtract and see there is a net loss of over 100,000 jobs? And to keep this up for six years? Not even once in the last six years has job growth exceeded the new claims for unemployment. There is no growth.

Admit it. We are in a recession. We have to admit it so we can start looking for the solutions. Guess what? The White House isn’t going to tell you this. You have to figure this out on your own. And it is really sad.

These 300,000 new unemployed are real people who need a job to support their family, not a piddly government check that’s going to run out in a few months. And I heard there were 835,000 people who dropped out of the workforce in the first quarter of 2014. It is really sad and hard to admit that over 800,000 people have stopped even looking for work, but isn’t that the real story?

And businesses can’t or won’t invest in creating new jobs. Why? Because Obama is an obstacle or a huge uncertainty for them. The Canada pipeline would create thousands of jobs and lower our cost for gasoline, but Obama and his EPA obstructs its approval. Obama’s EPA is shutting down over 200 coal-powered electricity plants, enough to cause a blackout in the extreme heat of summer! And electricity rates will rise as these plants go offline.

For business, it’s a scary time to invest because of the uncertainty. Obamacare has dozens of new taxes, 27 is the number I’ve heard. And without knowing the costs, a business is wary to invest. So businesses now sit on $3 trillion, afraid to invest it in the USA. EPA and regulations have already killed thousands of small businesses and thousands more are on the brink if Obamacare gets fully implemented next year.

Wake up America! These businesses represent hundreds of thousands of jobs, maybe yours! Demand that Congress repeal Obamacare now!

Russell Reahard
North Manchester