We are continuing to get news that there is a decline in the amount of the jobs created. The temporary census jobs created by the government were really a bad idea. Already quite a lot of them have to leave the job. The private sectors are also not able to create more jobs for the U.S. citizens as well. So what do the people? Is migration a choice? Becoming self employed a choice? Who are we to blame? Is the government responsible? The big corporate that are controlling the flow of currency? Or is it really the people? So many questions and yet none can be answered without pointing fingers at each other. The important question will be whether the job economy will improve or not.

We have to look at the factors that are causing job employment in the private sectors to decline. We certainly cannot live our lives with temporary or contract jobs. One of the major reasons why companies do not employ more people is because of cost reasons. Recently, Obama announced that US$2 billion is going to spend on creating green energy jobs. The money is given to companies that produce solar panels allowing them to employ more people. What is the point when the government is indirectly paying the newly employed? What if the money is used up? The companies will surely let go of its workers to reduce their cost overhead.

All of the companies want to reduce cost and are sensible about employment. The government has coaxed many of them to employ more people. Practically why would a company that is making money and has enough employees that can satisfy its needs to employ more people? So what about the bigger companies? Are they employing more people? The bigger companies tend to move their manufacturing line to other countries where it is cheaper. Just by opening a production line in China, they can greatly reduce their cost overhead. For every American being employed and paid, they can employ 5 Chinese with low pay. So now the question is why the bigger companies should open up factories in the U.S. when they can make more money by moving to China.

The people also are looking for good paying jobs, especially those who are well educated with good qualifications. So what happens? The employer has to pay more. Alternatively, the employer can get a foreigner to work for him at a lowered cost. The U.S. is known as the land of opportunity but at whose expense? Every day we are having more and more immigrants coming here to work. In a country like China, it is the capacity to produce more than 2 million graduates a year. Likewise for India as well, who has many people who compete with the Americans for IT jobs. A few months back I read an article about Microsoft stating that Indian programmers do not possess the quality for IT. We have to understand that they are simply here to work and earn not help you to profit. They can easily jump the boat while you sink.

This is not about demonizing the foreigners. It is a fact that there are Americans who do the same. It is globalization on unprecedented levels. At the same time, we have to figure on how to survive with what we have. The key is to be diversified and look for opportunities and niches. We cannot depend on the government or companies to get us jobs or improve our lives. Frankly, they are more interested in their well being. Problems cannot be solved by having more and more money put into it. That is the type of thinking that got us into this mess. Have a debt problem, no problem “here, have some more money”. Be diversified and look for other means of survival. One of the ways is to do outsourcing. It is possible to do it from within your own home. It could be even something related to IT or even baking. There are even people who make things that are even cheaper and its quality surpasses factory made products. Outsourcing is a good way to cut cost for companies. That does not mean they need to look for foreign resources to outsource. It can be done even on the home ground.

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Ever since the oil spill there has been many questions arising about President Obama`s administration. Now there is halting approval for any new deepwater drillings and suspended the drilling of 33 new wells. The reason behind such a decision is based on the idea that it might cause another disaster. The basic question comes down to whom is passing the information to President Obama that causes him to make such decisions. Definitely he has some people commission to recommend some options to him.

He needs a reality check. No matter what we say about climate change or going green currently we still need the oil. It is the main source that keeps everything moving for now. The idea was to halt the operations for 6 months. Now let`s look at the cost factor here. If the U.S. does not get enough oil from its own land, it will have to buy more from foreign lands. The cost per barrel might go up. Once that happens the oil will be refined and sold to the public. Cost of petroleum or diesel will increase to cover the overhead cost. Who will have to bare the costs in the end? You might think that just because they are new oil projects it might not affect us, well it will.

BP has been lying about oil leak and they did not have viable solution at all. Is Obama looking into this seriously or is he just looking away. It is not necessary that BP needs to do the clean up. The U.S. government can take charge of the situation. Why does the President even bother letting BP handle the situation when they can`t even manage their own industry. The government should not have allowed BP in the first place to be in control of the situation and let commissioners from the U.S. government just sit and watch. Already this situation has caused a tragic suicide of William Allen Kruse, a 55 year old who was an Alabama charter boat captain. He was despondent over the spill and its aftermath which stressed him a lot and eventually leading to suicide. Could it get worse? Yes, now Louisiana has rain that contains oil and water.

What about Tony Hayward? Simple he does not care. What about the top executives and chief operators? Well they simply lied and are waiting for someone to do something. BP is completely lost on what to do that they are just buying time by downplaying the claims on the oil leak. The people living in Louisiana are depending on the government. The government is pointing its finger at BP. The first thing they have all to do is to be on the same side. Currently, they are all on different sides and are causing problems to one another. All of them need to be united. Everyone in this situation is awaiting one another for an answer or a solution. There are people who are doing something to prevent the oil leak from getting worse but they are getting opposed.

This situation is going to get worse. There are possibilities of more people being driven to suicide and more wildlife just disappearing.

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Today it has been official that the current oil leak is the worst environmental disaster. What is still being done? Practically, the government is now forcing BP to pay up whatever is due. BP has to also now speak up on its plans to reduce the oil leak why such an event took place. Fact is BP is still getting away with it. The reason is simple BP does know how to make a show to convince people about what they are doing to improve the situation. So far there talks about having containment systems that will separate oil from water. One of the containment devices is actually manufactured by “Kevin Costner” who has acted in movies like “Waterworld” and “The Untouchables”. The device initially failed in the testing but after adjustments it worked. BP so far as ordered 32 devices and it is estimated that each device can extract 2000 barrels of oil per day. Recently, BP has started to burn the leaking oil from the ruptured well. They did it to reduce the oil leak but this will cause water temperatures to rise and form other sorts of end-products from the burning causing the environment to become unsuitable for wildlife.

Reality is BP and many other oil companies have been lying to the people around the world. Remember when Sarah Palin said that she is very efficient, knowledgeable and has experiences dealing with oil companies about oil spills and safety; then she asked President Obama should call her. Well she either knows nothing or just acts as if she does or she is conspiring with the oil companies. BP as well as many other oil companies have been lying to all of us and using loopholes in laws and regulations to cut cost so that they can profit insanely. They have been many incidents that took place within the oil companies’ refineries which were covered up.

They have overlooked the safety aspects within refineries and oil rigs to save money. The CEOs` have continuously stressed on cutting down cost on getting new materials and equipments to replace parts from wear and tear. What was the attitude that they are having? Fix the problem has it comes. I suppose they do not believe that prevention is better than cure. Look at the problem now they are facing now and they can`t even fix it. Furthermore, oil companies created welfare programs to protect the environment and wildlife within the region. In reality, the list of the things that they claim to provide welfare for do not exist within the region. There were several incidents of pipelines ruptured and refineries having spewed hazardous materials had been covered up. Incidents like explosions occurring in refineries were only in the media for awhile and were soon forgotten by the public because of diversions and promoting lies.

Now President Obama is using this opportunity to push for greener solutions. It is true that the U.S. has natural gas, ethanol, nuclear or even hybrid technology but we must not forget that the oil is still being used to manufacture other products. Either way we would still need to do offshore drilling up to a certain extent where there will be oil for manufacturing purposes. It is obvious that the oil companies will not siphon as much as they are doing now. This can lead to increases in costs of products till they find a way to replace oil completely or totally create new products that can change our lifestyle. I know that by using some principles in thermodynamics we can produce oil but then there is an issue on cost and the materials required.

The government first has to come clean. Next, they should push for stricter regulations which will prioritize safety for their workers and environmental protection. They also need to make sure they commission the right people to take up job in keeping the oil companies inline.

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If you are living in the states you would have earn it by now. The US debt has reached US$13 trillion dollars (officially 13,050,826,460,886.97 dollars on June 1). The Treasury Department stated that it was due to government overspending. As usual the democrats and the republicans will start to push the blame rather than looking for a viable solution. On a serious note, both sides have not done anything for last 10 years other than mocking and spending unnecessarily. The damned debt has literally doubled and it`s standing at the 90% of the annual gross domestic product.

The worse is not over yet. The U.S. government is roughly accumulating about US$5 billion dollars a day. Furthermore, there was a huge healthcare reform. Ever since President Obama took office the deficit increased to US$2.4 trillion. This figure does not mean that its President Obama`s fault. He did inherit a mess from the infamous “ape-man” George Bush. The man problem now is that too many things are going down. The major issues like the oil leak in Louisiana, the possibility of North and South Korea going to war and many more problems are going to be become even a bigger burden.

The obvious solutions that they would consider is to cut spending and the increasing taxes. Obama has also launched a debt commission to find ways to resolve this issue. Remember this people who doing the research are only going to give options and recommendations. They could simple create suggestions that they think is plausible and the deadline for them is by the end of the year. So what has happened to reaching out to people? Let`s assume that they come up with something. Will the new idea require more funding? We have to think again about the timeline. Remember its US$5 billion a day going up in smokes. Just count up the days to the end of year and think about the increase in debt. So who will suffer for this? The government talks about cutting cost, but sadly I think they should look deeper. They have lost a lot of money in investing businesses and have had cases of being cheated for millions of dollars. Whose money is it that they spend? George Bush is getting for giving speeches. REALLY?!!! They want to spend that kind of money on him.

Why will this situation get worse? Recently, the unemployment rate was announced. There was only a slight drop in the rate, from 9.9% to 9.7%. However, it was more than enough to for investors to pull out and make the stock markets to take a dive. The major problem is majority of the people who got employed are working the government under temporary contracts, which summed to about 431,000 new jobs created. In the private sector, jobs rose only by 41,000. Why businesses are not employing more people? Simply put they do not need to. Many businesses in the U.S. are profiting and making full use of their employees. It is clearly not their fault if they do want to employ more people and the government should not force them as well. The government jobs are temporary; as soon as contracts expire people will try to re-contract. At the same time, there will more people who want a job as well. Where will all these people go?

The government expects more jobs in the coming months but it is just a hope unless they take some serious measures in making sure that if companies employ more people they too will gain a good incentive. Even if President Obama says that the necessary steps are taken, it still seems to be a failure so far. Until we see a major change in the unemployment rates, there is going to be more problems related to debts as well. There is one thing I really hope is that companies in the U.S. would start to do in-sourcing within the U.S. rather than outsourcing. The government should aid such companies and offer incentives to reduce the overhead cost.

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Ever since the oil rig exploded and the oil is still gushing out and not contained many rumors and speculations have risen and still arising. So far 210,000 gallons or 55,200 liters of oil is gushing out from the ruptured pipe. 11 workers have already lost their lives. Apparently, they are still trying to stop the oil from gushing into the sea by having containment over it. But so far it seems that the gas hydrates forming ice crystals inside causing it clog up. Till now, they are still evaluating other options to stop the oil from polluting the sea.

Since the day the incident happened people were complaining about how President Obama was too slow to respond to the situation and BP is an irresponsible company in what it does. So far from what I know and researched it seems that BP is actually quite strict about safety. It was actually in its 7th year without a lost time accident. And comments from others made claims that BP is one of the safest companies to work for. The day before the incident it seems that Halliburton Energy Services has been doing some maintenance work 5,000 feet below. Halliburton is “graciously” owned by Dick Cheney who has been accused of allowing torture.

The President`s slow response could be due to the fact that the company itself might have wanted to resolve the situation by itself. Not really sure about these speculations as there are no proper evidence. But what happened is a tragedy, lives were lost and the environment is pretty much getting messed up. Even at such an event there are still morons out there making the most ridiculous comments just for publicity. A good example is Rush Limbaugh; he said that the oil that is gushing out into the sea is natural. In a way it is not harming the environment. That’s like saying you can mix fecal matter with water and still drink it because it is natural.

That is not the end folks; those people who are claiming that global warming is fake are saying the rapture will happen no matter what so might as well do what we want. Are they really asking for death or just being oblivious? I really do not know. Quite a number of whom that asked for offshore drilling for oil in the past are now having a change of heart after seeing this incident take place, remember “Drill baby drill”. But still it is very difficult for allot of us to go on a use alternative energy sources. One is the cost and the next is whether there is sufficient amount. We are too dependent on oil and corporate lobbyists are not going let go of us from using oil that easily.

Oil is something we still need even if it has another alternative fuel to replace it. Most of our products that we use daily somewhat have oil in them. These things have made our lives so much easier. So when will we stop sucking the oil from the earth? I do not know. Maybe a prayer or a scientist could possibly find a replacement for oil. But for those who worked and are still working on the oil rigs around the world, you definitely get my respect.

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