Who is to blame for the continued rising unemployment rates in the United States?
Our American political pundit Lauren Rollheiser weighs up the options… Political spinning is alive and well and the devastating loss of jobs in the United States is not off limits. The most recent job report, released last Friday showed that in May 2009 345,000 people became unemployed, increasing the national unemployment rate to 9.4%. Some smaller states are well above this rate. Michigan, the home of the auto industry, for example has a 12.9% unemployment rate. But where does the blame for this lie? Republicans of course, blamed President Obama for the economy during the campaign before he had even been elected President, let alone taken office. When the economy began to take a downturn, Obama catapulted above opponent John McCain in the opinion polls. And as the election wore on and the economy worsened, Republicans pointed to Obama’s lead in the polls as the cause of the faltering economy. According to political spin doctors, just the idea that Obama could win the election was eno
