Positive Economic News

The recent unemployment figures have me thinking and wondering.  I’m no employment expert or economist.  But I wonder if we’re just going to have to deal with 90% of America being employed for a while, and…is it really bad?  Consider this.

As a result of the recession I lost my job in 2008.  Out of necessity I started my own business.  So, while the government may have considered me unemployed for some time, and still may for all I know….I’m doing well enough sustaining myself utilizing my own expertise built over the years.  So I wonder how many of that 10% are making on their own as independent contractors, establishing their own LLC’s and going it alone, or from what I’ve been reading in several sources, making do with one income.

We give “getting back to family values” a lot of lip service.  But perhaps like many of our parents (mine included) many families are returning to a one-income household and just doing without some of the “stuff” we’ve become so accustomed to yearn for over the past decade or two, or even three.  With me working out of the home, I’m able to do more household chores that we shared, I’m home when my kids get off the bus, I can get “stuff” done during the day that we used to have to do at nights or on the weekend, and frankly I think we’re all just a little less “stressed” these days.  How many of you find yourself in similar situations?  And, how is that working for you and your family?

So I’d like to hear what your situations are readers.  And if any of you have a take on the unemployment numbers, maybe more about how their calculated and if you think 95% of America needs to be employed to move forward, then please chime in.

Oh, and let’s please not make this a political discussion.  It took a lot more than any one President or administration to get us here, so party bashing comments will get tossed.  Rational, logical opinions and arguments are always welcome…bashing or piling on…gets us nowhere…

Thanks,

Barry