Where are the jobs?

The Chicago Tribune takes an adult approach to the question. It is childish to compare the current economy with the stock market bubble of the 1990s which was based crazy stock prices and options that became worthless shortly thereafter. This country needs to get off its butt and quit whining for the government to create jobs out of thin air. That only happened when Clinton and Coolidge were president, and they didn't make it happen. A lot of the old jobs are disappearing either because they aren't needed anymore or because Americans have priced themselves out of the international market. We need to quit waiting for them to come back and start retooling, retraining and moving to find work in new businesses. We also need to quit subsidizing medical costs and then wondering why they keep rising. Businesses should pay employees enough to pay their own medical bills, and they'd come back under control. Medicare is going broke. Let it, and quit shelling out more and taxing the jobs we have.