Dear Mr. President,

While you are over in Copenhagen talking about the environment and accepting the Nobel peace prize in Norway, we are still over here trying to find jobs. If you haven’t noticed, the unemployment rate has steadily gone up ever since you got elected and is now over 10%.

I need a job now: not later and not someday but right now! It seems we are over here trying to make ends meet anyway we can and you are off somewhere doing something else all the time. I have read everywhere that you are going to raise taxes on small businesses and yet they are the ones that employ many of us. I need a job now and I might need a small business to hire me so taxing them more doesn’t sound like a good idea.

I am tired of looking for your Obama stimulus grants and trying to figure out whether I can get any rebate money or any other type of debt relief. I hear of all the stimulus money being given out but I am not benefiting from it and I need to at least be able to afford to go back to school. I need a job now or at least some kind of help Mr. President and I suspect I am not the only one.

You say your health care plan is for everyone but now the latest polls show that more people don’t want it than do. Opposition to your Obama health care reform bill keeps going down and yet you keep pushing it.

You are now also committing 30,000 more of our troops to Afghanistan when you ran on a platform that you were going to end the war and bring everyone home! I don’t understand why you said one thing and now are doing the opposite? Shouldn’t we be concentrating on jobs and fixing our problems at home?

Your overall approval rating is now below 50% for the first time ever as well. Could this be because you are spending too much time going to other countries and not spending time here in America trying to get things back on track? Again Mr. President, I need a job now and not later! Please help.

The stimulus plan was passed a while ago and now there is even talk of a second one. We all know now that there are no new Obama grants in the stimulus bill for normal citizens but are there any new stimulus jobs?

Unfortunately for people looking for work, there are not that many Obama stimulus jobs that are brand new jobs. Most of the money from the stimulus bill is earmarked for existing jobs and saving jobs and payrolls that were in trouble. This is good of course for those people who have jobs because their jobs might be one of the ones saved. But it does little for the man on the street who has already lost his job and is trying to find a new one.  

A lot of lawmakers and politicians are now not so sure the stimulus bill is working. With unemployment still rising, many economists agree that it has not topped out yet. There is more pain ahead and now the stock market is beginning to head back down again after rallying nicely for the last couple of months.

If you are looking for Obama stimulus jobs, your best bet is to look for local and city jobs around your town. While the stimulus bill is working to mainly save jobs at this point, there are some new jobs created but not a lot. If you keep looking and asking questions, you might turn up a lead or two that might help you get your foot in the door.

Likewise, individuals will not be able to get any Obama green grants but they might be able to get jobs that result from them. This grant money is going to increase research and production of electric cars and other things that will save on energy. The money is going to large companies and not individual people who want to make green house upgrades.

Please not though that times are tough right now and competition is high for all jobs whether they are stimulus jobs or not. At this point, depending on where you live, there might not be many jobs at all to choose from.