No, but the MSNObama "job creation" headlines over the next couple months will be hilarious.

Trolls are not welcome, you may leave. Usually the trolls are more creative with their name calling, at least put some effort in to it.

Home Depot, fire anyone making a livable wage and replace them with a minimum wage employee.

The key word is SEASONAL. They will also be let go after the season. This is typical during the spring and summer months.

And you know this how?

My best friend from high school has worked for Home Depot in the Atlanta area for over 10 years. She and several other longtime full timers just got fire for "customer service" issues. So it looks like they have already started.....

pjam09--very funny & true! Log onto the internet and what do you see--70,000 jobs. It should be followed up by the 120000 usps will be laying off over the next 5 years. Ouch. The Obama campaign is in ramping up.

They can post this moronic job creation headline every day until the election and there is no way I would vote this guy back in office. Just what we all need, $10.00 an hour retail jobs that eventually will fade away due to the fact we'd all be making $10.00 and couldn't afford to buy anything at a retail store. Unless they lower Corporates Taxes and can promise Manufacturers that they will not be strong armed into bankruptcy by Unions if they come back to the USA, we are in big trouble.

Thursday it has started to hire 70,000 seasonal workers for the spring,

ugh HD is hiring and Lowes are closing! WHY? Lowes is sooooooooooooooo much better.

If your buying something to put in a wall the depot is fine but if your buying something people will actually see damn go to lowes.

So what are you liberals whining about now? The Obama administration crowed about McDonald's hiring 50,000 last year. That was good news to Obama & Co. So now you people are whining about Home Depot? You liberals will never be happy about ANYTHING, will you? Miserable people.

Oh and for the liberal brainiacs like Denise who love to froth at the mouth and assert that we non-liberals are paid forum bloggers, who's the genius that put that thought in your unused minds? Do you people HONESTLY believe that right-wingers who post on blogs - as we've been doing since the internet took off mid-90s - are PAID? You people are laughably pathetic. So are you forum-posting liberals paid Obamadrones or what?

Thank you Home Depot. You created more jobs in week than obama and his jobs team created in 3 yrs.

The key word is SEASONAL. They will also be let go after the season.

If you had witheld your rant till after you actually read the entire article, you might have noticed the blurb about how half of seasonal workers stay permanently. But no, instead you read the headline, then immediately jump onto the forum in an attempt to pre-empt anyone who dares think the economy might be picking up.

Damn Obama for being president during any positive news. /sarcasm

Home Depot hiring 70,000 seasonal workers

GOOD!! Now maybe when I go into that POS store there will be someone there to actually assist me, as in "customer service".

I can assure you that OBAMA had nothing to do with these jobs being created. NOTHING!!!!!!!!! But, I guess desperation will having people saying, "Look what OBAMA did! Isn't he wonderful!!" The whole 100 people who might be ignorant enough to vote him back in.

Home depot starts a full-time worker at about $8.00/hr, in Texas, one of the strongest economic states in the U.S. currently. If you are part-time you may get about 15 hours a week, because they substitute full time positions with benefits, for non-benefit low hour temp jobs. Thats also a reason why everyone is always so pissed looking in that place. Bottome line is that these are not liveable wages, you could not get an apartment on the bad side of town with pay like that. I also like how people that are well-off expect everone else to live in a form of wage slavery and continuously lower our standards just to keep them in their positions of comfort.

Whiners, You get a Company who says they are going to hire 70,000 seasonal workers, in a big recession and everybody dumps on them. No wonder jobs are scarce. Who wants a bunch of negative, lazy people working for you? Come on people, a job is a job, at least you won't starve and you can have some income while searching for a better opportunity.

XTRA...XTRA...THIS JUST IN...home depot just moved into your community...local economies destroyed profits sent to new york...millions unemployed...taxes raised to cover needed social programs...for more info read most recent comments by owner bernie "brooklyn"marcus and his wall street backer ken lancome bragging about being 1%er fat cats...on a darker note follow their efforts to pass anti labor legislation...p.s. part time jobs equal long time misery...

The constant naysayers on here are truly pathetic. Even if each seasonal worker only made $10,000 that would be $700 million added to the economy which would produce thousands of more jobs. That type of incremental increase is how economies are stimulated, not by giving tax breaks to fatcats that don't need them.

So does this mean all the illegals that hang around the parking lots are hired now?

I doubt this will benefit the economy at all because these workers will probably need supplemental income from the gov't.

have you lost your job recently.....? Well, guess what? The people at Home Depot are hiring 70k part time temporary positions. Hurry and get your application in, as you do not want to miss out on the employment opportunity of the century!

What a joke!

Dear Home Depot,

I quit shopping at your store because your customer service sucks, and very little on your shelves are made in America. On top of that, I can never find an employee in your store who can help me. They are normally standing in the middle of an aisle, and turn to walk the other way when I come around the corner. What, am I ugly or something?

The last thing your store needs is 35 new employees per store who don't know squat about home "anything" to mislead me, or tell me what I am doing is incorrect.

And, make your store as complicated as possible. I can promise you I will not impulse purchase a new 300.00 made in China extension ladder as I wait for the (1) working self check out line. Instead, I will stand there and gently simmer as I look across a field of unattended cash registers. All the while thinking I should have gone to Lowes.

Sincerely,

Go diddle yourself.

P.S. pay attention Lowes your not too far off.

P.S.S. I hope you go the way of Sears.

P.S.S.S. I'm looking forward to the new ACE Hardware stores, and completely support the two small guys in my local community for general hardware and lawn equipment.

Hence why all job reports are seasonably adjusted. Lets not forget all the Farmers who will be re-employed in a few months!

Hey Tpuglicons, where are the jobs you all ran on in 2010? How can you lower (big) corporate taxes when they are now effectively lower than 97% of the rest of the world as it is? I know, you all will pile on me saying WHAT? Corporate taxes are 38% you moron. True, I give you that, but what do they actually pay? I am not talking about the doctor who is taxed at personal income tax rates, or the mom and pop stores and such. I am talking manufacturers and big box retailers.

Also the article said half of last years temps went on to permanent hires. I am not saying the Obama administration had anything to do with it, but things ARE coming back, slowly. Perhaps it is better for the economy to come back slowly so as not to create bubbles.

Well said Denise.

Obama will take full credit for this then blame it all on Bush when they're laid off.

Anything will help to offset the 750,000 jobs and growing exponentially that Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang were losing when Obama took over.

I call Home depot employees " Orange Dodgers ". When they see you walking towards them they quickly head in a different direction!

Life2: Get Your head out of Obamas a... er rear pocket and smell the roses....did You just come over on the last boat from Nevada????But than again You are part of the 30% that would vote for BRICK if it was labled DEMOCRATE.

Ah, more $9/hr jobs - with no benefits and no job security. That's going to move the economy. Not!

One can start out as a temp at Home Depot and eventually move up to a well paid job.

All 70K of them?

Half stay on with permanent jobs. Many of those with no job stay with no job.

get a job working for a govt agency or govt contrator

You mean in the US? Or in China?

Good luck getting an upper tier career even with a sheep skin unless you are in the top 2% of the class or have a relative inside.. You could always move to China, India or Mexico and work for $8k a year but you need to be fluent bilingual.. China opportunities are closing fast as thousands of Chinese nationals are flooding our colleges.. Leaving the country is a good way to skip on your loan too.

Just came back from India.

The average entry level salaries for engineering graduates is about $15K.

For mid level managers and techies - $38K - $95K

For senior , VP, segment heads etc - $100K to $150K

and for CEOS etc it is $150K to $250K.

I think Nigeria might still be offering $8K jobs.....

But no matter where you go, you still need at least a bachelors degree and math proficiency.

Home Depot, circa 1985, yes you could move up and make money.

Today, form all the people I know that have worked there, they will squeeze out anyone making a decent wage if possible.

MrINDIA Glad to see pay levels rising somewhere as it was pretty bad a few years ago.. I know several out of work people who would take salaries in that range but I am sure they do not want to move out of the US.. And this will be the only saving grace for jobs here if global salaries rise and make corporations hire here.. Now if we could get the insane top tier salaries here to drop and become more in step with the rest of the world we might have a chance..

Roadrunnero - What i am saying is that people who are qualified are not going to work for a pittance no matter what corner of the world they may be living in.

This whole game of outsourcing which started a few years ago is bound to slow down and come to a stop as global salaries rise in relation to the available skill set.

US companies need to understand that to get good people they need to pay good salaries. If they don't someone else will.

And the US public needs to keep updating their skills and keep them relevant for the eventual return of jobs to America.

Ron H, you are a @!$%#ing moron. We'll all be like Indonesia soon because @!$%#s like yourself support the destruction of livable wages.

I used to work for Mittal Steel. At a meeting one day, a top executive informed us it took 6 employees in India to do the same production as one in the United States. Their wages were also 1/6th of what US wages are. Not that that has anything to do with the article on Home Depot hiring 70,000.

HEADLINE:

Bottom LIne - Home Depot Hiring 70,000 Seasonal Workers

Was not able to decide whether this was a Muslim Outreach Program or a Mexican Outreach Program. I live across the street from a Home Deport. Apparently this particular store is a Muslim Outreach because all the Mexican craftsmen are still hanging out along the street in many small groups, just waiting for some white guy to come along in a pickup truck, holding up a certain number of fingers, to tell them how many to jump in the back of the truck, attempting to communicate his verbal contract in his lousy Spanglish. On the other hand, I also see lots of Muslim-looking male potential customers, walking in with scowls on their faces, being sure not to make eye contact with the 'merkin white folk, muttering "habibi habibi habibi... babibi!!". So ... YEAH. It must be a Muslim Outreach Program at my Home Deport location.

I may have to take a hint from Mr. India, and perhaps move to India to get a better chance at having a full-time, PERMANENT electrical engineering yob. A better chance than here in 'merka. But first.... I'd have to learn how to speak... Indian. I am a 100% Native American who does not speak Indian. BWAAHahahaha. Maybe Pimsleur or Rosetta Stone has a Indian Language Course In A Box taylor-made for me.

As of now there are about half a million Americans and Europeans working in India. Most via deputation through their parent companies. As for language - English is widely spoken there especially in offices. India has one national language (hindi) and then each one of its 25 states has its own language. They all communicate with each other in English.

If you want a hardcore electrical Engineering job, i have some contacts in a company called Bharat Heavy Electicals Limited - A government of india undertaking which makes 500-1000 MW generators, turbines , rotors etc ...i can put in a good word for you :-). ABB and Siemens also have manufacturing plants there. Plenty of work if you really are looking.

It is a rapidly growing country and 90% of the action is domestic consumption. Which means no matter what happens outside the world, the local demand itself is enough to fuel a 8-9 % sustained growth for a couple more decades. Lot of excitement and good work happening there. People say TGIM instead of TGIF there.

Mr India, wow, good news! I am glad for your technical people back Home. Seems like the World outside the USA is progressing, whilst the USA is devolving, in the practical use of technology for its own people. I just may think further about this opportunity. The only technical work I've been able to line up here in the USA is Big Name SubContractor temp work. Some of it involves military product design; some of it non-military. I just want to have a full-time EE job working on something that is not designed to kill people and destroy things. I'm flipping Foreclosed houses right now, which actually makes use of my general skills. I recognize the company names you mentioned.

TGIM -- very nice. I wish 'merkins had that attitude here. You represent your Country and your People very well with the description in your comment Mr India. So encouraging. Thanks.

How about the part where it says half those seasonal workers make the job permanent? Leave it to people to piss on any good news. For those that don't stay, it's still a paycheck, it's still job experience and it still looks good when applying for your next job.

No, the key word is a JOB. Temporary or not, it puts food on the table.

I suppose we should discourage the unemployed from taking a job if it is labeled seasonal?

Chris from Yucaipa,

Yes it says half might stay, but... do you really think that HD, or any other retail operation, will increase their permanent work force by half in the off season? Those that stay will take the place of higher wage employees that are let go and the few, very few in these times, that leave on their own. So trying to hold on to the joy of half staying do it with some realism please. The unemployment will go back to pre seasonal levels after the season, just how it works.

Realism? How about you provide facts that show Home Depot will fire it's higher earning workers in favor of keeping the temps. Show me a history of them doing this, because I too can claim something like they walk their employees out back after a few months and shoot them, yet without proof, it's looks just as much as a conspiracy theory as yours.

Precisely. I just left HD after they said this past year they were hiring 30,000. Problem is, they have no hours to give them. So honestly at his point, theyre really just pissing peopel off. If they don't have hours, they shouldnt be hiring. It was frustrating as hell, because even after we were over staffed, they KEPT HIRING IN. It borders on the ridiculous. Think more than twice

Maybe it has something to do with Obama telling companies to hire now so he can say he created jobs in time for the elections. Hire people or you will get no more stimulus monies.

It's Outreach I tell you !

However with Obamacare, people could take these jobs because they would still be able to get health insurance through the government and not be afraid to lose their medicaid assistance as a penalty for working. If they are working, the taxpayer may be subsidizing their healtcare, but the taxpayer is no longer subsidizing everything else - and the worker is paying taxes.

And Anita wants her health care run like the DMV?

I don't know what your DMV is like but where I live it is efficient, helpful, responsive and not wasteful. So yes - I would just as soon my health insurance run as well as the DMV. My private insurance is not nearly as well run.

People know they need health insurance one way or the other or they risk complete financial collapse or inadequate medical care for themselves and their children. Where workers can still receive some medical insurance support even if such insurance is not available through an employer, then people can and are much more likely to take jobs without benefits because they don't have to make that choice and risk being penalized for working.

They do hire illegals. I know this. Worked at that hellhole for two years.

People know they need health insurance one way or the other............

I think you mean people need health care one way or the other.

The fact that the 'new' system of forced insurance is likely to have all the same inherent problems of the old system seems certain.

We bet the farm on the solution being provided by insurers, but as yet, we haven't been able to control them. So in the future I suppose we believe we can control them.

I doubt it.

There is too much greed and corruption in the game for the outcome to be successful.

I have lived a good deal of my life in foreign countries (no, not in the military). I can say for sure that the multiplicity of small and quite capable local clinics and very low priced basic medical care is a huge boon to those societies. They don't do it with insurers in the mix.

I was married to a career Naval officer for 25 years, but only 10 years of the marriage was during his military service. He retired in 1995 and unfortunately we were divorced in 2010; while I was not eligible to keep the Tricare health insurance that is for retirees, spouses, dependents, and former spouses married for at least 20 years of military service; I do qualify for a program called CHCBP (Continued Health Care Benefit Program).

Why am I telling you all of this?

BECAUSE BOTH TRICARE AND CHCBP ARE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS

Tricare is FAR less expensive in every way, but both programs are well run. Every time I have needed medical care it has been provided. When I need help understanding a process, customer service is online or on the phone.

I think that ANYONE would be pleased to have this insurance.

Oh, FYI, the DMV is a state run organization, not federal. And in my state, your wait time and frustration level depends solely on the popularity of the branch you choose. I drive about 25 miles to a country office, listening to some tunes and relaxing. Walk in. Walk out. Professional service every time.

Booklady -- totally concur. I'm a retired Naval officer, also -- retired in '93 after 23 years -- and my wife recently retired after serving 33 years as a Cook County, IL prosecutor. We bought healthcare insurance through the county, but recently switched to TRICARE because it's far, far cheaper -- even with the impending cost increases. And I agree it's managed ver well, considering the millions of users, both active, retired, and their spouses. For those of us who served, it's the only way to go.

The DMV in my area is very efficient. You can walk into the office, be served right away, no lines. You only see like 5 people working there. Took a democrat SOS to restructure the department and works beautifully.

Their was a time when home depot paid a decent wage. Not the case anymore. The need to satisfy shareholders is more important then paying fair wages. This is a company with billions in yearly profits. How long can a large corp. satisfy wall street. They have already cut wages, thinned experienced workers, cut costs at every corner in order to satisfy W>S. It's a viscous cycle that will eventually come to a crash because it will be impossible to satisfy wall street year after year.

Apparently many on this feed think every new high school graduate should start out making $50,000 a year with benefits.

Anita,

A focus on personal responsibility, establishing a work ethic, and trying to take care of yourself?? What a concept, I hope it catches on.

BTW3110....Why does a person work? I think they do it in the hopes of survival. You talk about $50,000/yr like it's something Warren Buffett would be proud to make. I'll give you a little tid-bit of information. In the area where I live you need to make over $19.00/hour to say you are making a living wage. And yes....that's for a single person.

Of course that doesn't take into account the incredible amount of money all the 'experts' are claiming that new high school grad will need for his old age. Current numbers being used start at $1,250,000 and range up to 2,500,000. If you use that 50k/yr for 50 years that just about makes the amount needed for a decent old age.

Anita, how come the Democrats fight to keep wages low for the non union private sector.

Are they only for a certain class of worker that they can control?

lvingbarefoot - I have no idea what you are talking about. Republicans traditionally fight any increase in the minimum wage and have devoted themselves for decades to the destruction of labor unions. What are you referring to?

Illegals keep wages artificially low and D's fight to keep illegals here.

This administration has deported more illegals so far than the last one did in 8 years.

rednawt,

Research
it please. You will find that ICE is deporting in defiance of executive brach,
and justice department, memorandum to stop. It is not really this administration’s
desire to deport illegal aliens, only those that commit violent crimes.

I think the politicians need to be reminded that THEIR jobs are supposed to be temporary as well.

Not only temporary but at the discretion of the American taxpayer!

I think the politicians need to be reminded that THEIR jobs are supposed to be temporary as well.

Their jobs might be short term temporary, but their fat retirement packages are permanent and lifelong.

The best thing a greedy guy can do is get elected young, serve one short term, and retire from politics.

Let's all start nodding our heads............get the money out of politics.

I believe it takes a little longer than one short term, unless you are a president, which brings to thought, we should keep Obama another 4 years to get our moneys worth!

Obama 2012!

Last time I checked, KJG, they werent outperforming their competition. I worked there. Watched the shoddy training. Observed complete lack of respect for customers. Lack of respect to its associates, f which I was one. Complete lack of store care. They told me to lie to customers about faulty products that were twice as expensive as the ones that work. The apathetic managerial staff. Lowes is three or four spots above them in terms of "companies to work for" for a reason.

Menard's is better. Menard's tries to stock Made In USA items. It is always easy to find an associate to help you.

Both Lowes and Menards are superior to home depot. We have a home depot less than two miles from our home. My wife and I would rather drive almost twenty miles to patronize Menards. I don't care for home depot's stores, products, or quality of service. I'll take the quality over quantity Menards and Lowes offers over home depot.

At least yours will have one open. The one by me funnels EVERYONE to the self checkout line.

That should keep them busy as there are so many shovels that did not get purchased to fill the "shovel ready jobs" that did not exist.

Or from my area, the lack of snow to shovel. Tiredoflosers and normalperson123's comments were just snow jobs people.

Rednawt,

The man himself admitted that the shovel ready jobs weren't so shovel ready. No snow here, only facts.

Are you serious????

wha???

I think she thinks she is. Maybe she's calling for a bailout of Home Depot.

Rich republicans? - yeah lets leave out those "poor" democrats with their $38,000.00 a plate fund raisers, and 1,000,000.00 celebrity parties. LMAO - are you seriously that stuck on stupid?

Denise-806309

If Republicans rig the machines for voting like they have started to do and do the robo calls again.

Proff of this rigging if you please!

The money from the wars needs to pay down the debt.

It is not the governments job to create jobs. Period.Now wait for it... They are supposed to govern. Such a concept... And neither side Democrats or Republicans are doing that.

wow

Yep. Know from firsthand experience. Tried it. Won't make the same mistake again. Real S#*thole.

wow

I didn't mean to offend anyone who actually bought their program.

Just my personal opinion. It wasn't very good before Tom Ridge and the boys took over, and it hasn't been too good after, either.

Worked there for 10 years. There are different degrees of suckage, but Home Depot is definitely on the spectrum. When I hired in, the place was still owned by Bernie and Arthur, they hired knowledgeable employees and paid them decently, with a pretty darn decent benefits package. And they still stressed customer service, company wide. After Bernie and Arthur got out, and then especially when Bob Nardelli took over, it all went to hell. Customer service then was just lip service, as they got rid of the knowledgeable, well-paid employees and hired part timers, then squeezed everybody who was left to always do more more more with less and less staffing. It's hard to blame an 18-year-old who has never wired a light switch, changed a toilet valve, or swung a hammer, for not being able to help the 30-odd customers swarming over the 3 departments he's being forced to cover due to understaffing. All the corporate culture, the almight bottom line. Look, you're gonna buy cheap Chinese crap everywhere you go, because there is no more manufacturing in America. So if you don't need help, and want to support the corporations, go buy your cheap Chinese crap at Home Depot. If you need customer service, shop at Ace. Or a small, local hardware store, if you can find such a thing anymore.

I agree, only a crazy person would shop at home depot and expect customer service. They hire some pimple faced kid who has never pounded a nail even and expect them to know what is what. I dread even the thought of going there unless I know exactly what I need and then it has to be on sale or I shop somewhere else. I think this is just a PR push for themselves to say look at us, we are helping! B.S. Nardeli did his slash and burn and made his mulit millions but he basically set the company for long term failure. As far as chinese crap, its everywhere like you said.

In case you haven't checked lately, a whole lot of what's sold in Home Depot is manufactured in China.

As a previous employee i can tell you tat Flylowguy is very much correct in that. They claim to be America's home improvement store. I say bull.

The term "A whole lot" is a gross understatement.

There's also the items listed as 'assembled' in Mexico (etc), to avoid the word 'China' on the label.

But of course this is somewhat of a ruse. The items are shipped either partially assembled from China, or in some (let's say corrupt) cases, the item is entirely made in China, and is still allowed the 'assembled in Mexico' label because Mexico is so anxious for the incoming trade and handling/shipping (NAFTA at work here) opportunities, they only require that incoming goods be 'value improved' by 15%. That 15% is claimed by the supposed costs of unloading and repackaging/reshipping tariff free into the US on Mexican trucks.

The real deal is this: we as a country have been sold out to various foreign interests. Many times those foreign interests are really former US companies that have gone offshore for labor and taxation reasons.

This won't improve unless we get the money out of politics. We probably aren't going to do that with the current crop of "leaders" and wannabees.

So people will refuse to work at US stores in protest that HD is selling foreign made goods? If you object to a store selling cheap foreign products, then don't shop at that store, but to say you will pass up on a job, on US soil, adding to the local economy, and supporting yourself and your family is insane.

Yes we have driven them to selling products from China. How many of you buy American when it is 30 to 40 percent higher? I would imagine none. There are alot of American made goods, you have to look for them. We can't ask for lower prices and then complain where it was made. Long ago all electronics were made in Japan, we bought vcrs, cameras and other electronics. Union labor forced companies to move. This is another example of how we forced them to move for lower prices.

How many of you buy American when it is 30 to 40 percent higher?

It might be the simple fact that their either buy the cheap goods, or they can't have the item at all.

Don't forget the slave labor in 3rd world countries, varmit. Let's say all of us 300 million Americans were willing to work for 5 dollars an hour. You think they couldn't find a few people amongst the 1 BILLION 300 million Chinese, or the 1 BILLION 200 million Indians who would be willing to work for less? I guess working for a couple bucks a day is still better than starving, right? How do you compete, union or non-union, when you're outnumbered by better than 2 billion hungry people with no standard of living to speak of?

Yes this reminds me of every year when college is out and the student hasn't graduated. Government is always taking credit for part-time jobs created. When college starts again the unemployment goes up, government never takes the blame for that. Everyone has to try to get a job. When the government will pay you more to sit at home and not work, then something is wrong. People who are out of a job always want another job starting at the same pay. I know of one man who lost him job over 4 years ago. He cannot find a job making $175,000. He is working as a head hunter for much less. People have to realize that the sub prime mortgage mess created this problem.

That's everywhere, Look at Congress

Wow thats more than a little narrow minded

I do not shop at businesses that support the gays

That's quite a statement.

Do you boycott public bathrooms too? Because I bet gay people have used them.

The result of that might be your trouble: full of sh*t.

flylowguy, I doubt Darrell boycotts public bathrooms. I'll bet it sounds like someone is giving tap dancing lessons in his stall.

It would be better if we went back to arresting and throwing gays in jail. It is a mental illness that needs treatment, rather than acceptance.

And, I'll choose where I'll spend my money and on business that supports Gays, their agenda or the Marxist, Liberal, Socialists in the white house, will never be on my lists. Narrow minded? Nope, just good sense.

Darrell = Narrow minded conservative bigot

Nope SM, just conservative with a set of moral values.

Denise how can you say that. The one party controls the senate and the White House. THe other party has only the house. They have over 30 bills that the senate won't allow to be voted on. There is no way they can get anything passed and enacted into law if the senate blocks them.

but you voted for them to get the money and free health care.

I didn't.

Stop telling me what I must have done.

Personally I think we need to vote our all incumbents and start over. This whole deal is just too far gone to salvage.

Let's total this jimmie-rigged contraption and get a newer, more efficient machine to replace it.

Unfortunately you don't get that if you continually vote for more ho-hum status quo type candidates who make promises they knew they couldn't keep.

Lowe's also beats them out on pandering to christian religious zealots.

Maybe that is why Lowes has more customers. Home Depot panders to gays and lesbians. I guess that explains the problem to alot of the people.

pandering to christian religious zealots

my turn:

WOW.

Goes to show ya ski,,,you don't know much at all ! lol

Lowe's pulled their TV ads from a perfectly acceptable, non-inflammatory and newsworthy show about American born citizens in Dearborn Michigan who happen to be Muslim because a fundamental Christian group in Florida objected. That qualifies as cowardice.

Bull Anita, Muslims are the enemy and always will be. Just because they're in Michigan and born in America does not mean that they're acceptable and newsworthy. What they are, are future bombers and terrorists as Islam will not let them to be anything but. Convert, Enslave or kill the non-believer, isn't that what the Koran says in the latter versus that the Imams' say supersede the earlier so called peaceful versus? No Taquia here is there! We should be arresting and deporting them to a "perfect" Mulsim country in the Middle East of their choice like Libya. There they can be in the news all they want.

What is "typical liberal" about a factual headline that says "Home Depot hiring 70,000 seasonal workers"?

Home Depot (a real company) is hiring 70,000 (their number) seasonal workers (factual description of the type of job.)

This is what is known as "business news."

If you want to gain wealth manufacturing is not the place to do it, and never has been. Wealth statistics that go back to well before WWII reveal that those in the top 1% have consistently had about 35% of the wealth in the country, the next 19% has had about 48-50% of wealth over all those decades, and the bottom 80% has had about 15-17% of the wealth during all those years.

You don't get to be in the top 20% by doing most manufacturing jobs.

If you want to gain wealth manufacturing is not the place to do it

That might be true in the US today, but it wasn't always true, I have been in manufacturing most of my life. Lots of wealth gets created assuming your operation also mixes in proprietary rights and/or patented products the company holds the patent to.

These days if you want to make money in manufacturing, you are looking at a variety of offshore realities.

If value, and therefore compensation, is not in manufacturing (or the design and engineering processes that are attendant to it), then everything after that is just magic middleman stuff. Not to say that's bad, necessarily, but people with nothing more than a mouth and some capital to buy cheap/sell dear are not all that valuable to a society in my mind. And they tend to go for foreign manufactured products too, because they can exploit them more.

The man in the White House has created more government jobs than private jobs. He has stopped more real high paying jobs. People won't work if he will pay them more to stay home, or protest. I liked it when in NY they handed out applications for McDonalds. NO one took one. They like being squatters.

Capitol Hill will get the message that people are serious about working.

BACKWARDS.

They need to prove to us that they are willing to work. Right now, with a sub-10% approval rating, they are failing at that too.