The decline of optimism, some economists say. We want to get your thoughts on the unemployment number and if you are optimistic about the job market. If you are under 30 reach out to us on social media, cspanwj is how you do that on twitter. Journal cspan. Org is our email. To read you the headline from the pittsburgh postgazette post quote postgazette optimism is the subject of todays opinion pages of the wall street journal . Again, your thoughts on the economy, especially in light of these new numbers, with the federal Unemployment Rate at seven percent. In. Ere is how you can call we divided the lines differently. If you are under 30 it is discussions about the economy that takeover the papers today, especially in light of these new numbers. Here is the editorial page of the new york times. They have a different take we start this morning in jacksonville florida. Angel is up. Good morning, what do you think about the economy in light of these current numbers . Good morning. First of all, thank you so much for taking my call. Go ahead, youre on. Caller there is still a Selection Process that is very difficult for many people. Thethe reason is simple, young people are being selected the selection very picky. Ery, degrees and i cant find a job in jacksonville, florida. Some cities are picking up quickly, some arent. Keep are you going to looking for work or have you given up . Caller i will keep looking. Fairs, i apply for work every day. I search for jobs every day, update my resume. I talk to all those people that i am supposed to talk to. I even tried to get back to school. It is difficult for some people. ,ost three lines this morning for under 30, 31 to age 50, and 51 and over. Our next caller caller i spend a lot of time intel has see helping people for my Business Fraternity and different organizations looking for jobs, especially coming out of college or even if you are a currently in college. Tallahassee is growing really quickly. We added a lot of different jobs here. Ild say the only issue am definitely very optimistic about the job market. Jobsnk there are a lot of out there, especially if you spend a lot of time looking at them and filtering through them. Especially like the universities. I think the issue that we are having is so many of these jobs and 1010ng for five Years Experience or they will exchange out for education, for a couple of the years. A lot of people coming out of college may have parttime jobs elsewhere or going through a difficult economic time with the job market that it has recently been, how do we have the ability to get that experience . A lot of young people are looking for jobs to be able to get that experience and learn obvious job training that maybe they are not getting through their college career. What is your College Background and are you still paying off College Loans . Caller i am. I just finished my masters degree. I am currently employed at i has been in the job market, i have been in the professionals setting since i was 16 years old. I spent a lot of time building that experience, maybe not making as much as other people. If i am thankful i have had that ability to get that experience. I am finding a lot of young people participate in clubs and organizations, whether or not they are getting paid or getting whatever they can to get a tiny bit of experience on their resume. Aret of companies out there looking for 5, 10, 10 years 20 Years Experience. Host heres danielle next. Caller good morning. I am so excited i finally got through. I am in the second category. I am not the least bit optimistic about the jobs market. The lady you were speaking i a couple of calls earlier, am a multiple College Degree holder. Beene been an up i have unemployed for three and a half years. I am also thinking that the statistics the Labor Department puts out every month is not the least bit accurate. Im thinking they should doubled longterm unemployed. Jobs had towho have relocate from state its vegans from state to state. The people most of with my job were outsourced and andlly the company was sold 90 of us are still unemployed to this day. I was four years ago. Thoughts off of twitter this morning. Kevin from maine in that middle category, 31 to 50, hello. Caller good morning. Iwould just like to say that think the job market is improving. I think the president has done everything he said he is going to do and did not even as much as that he at. Over we president took were learned we were losing i cannot remember how much it was, 800,000 per month. Years the president has turned this country, not totally around, but the country is swinging around to the positive. There is more money, more people are going to work, things are looking up. I will never forget something he , he said he took over our economy is not going to turn around on the time. It is going to be like the titanic. A longtermto be but eventually things are going to get better. Read you a line from the Washington Post this morning what you think about the government if signs are pointing that the economy is Getting Better . Caller he said something about the government was slowing the economy . I dont know how you would measure that. How do you measure that . People said the government stimulus did not do anything, at least everyone said that. A certain percentage said the government stimulus was a waste and did not do anything, just added to the debt. How do we know . You cannot measure that. How does mark zandi come up with these scientific facts to prove that what he is saying is right or wrong . I have no idea. From what i see, things are Getting Better. I wish that people had more money in their pockets. I am a proponent of raising the minimum wage. Host this is william, in the category of 51 and over. How are you . I am concerned, my Social Security went of 100 per month. I am a retired schoolteacher and i have a bachelors degree, masters degree, and an Education Specialist degree. Old and i am thinking about going back to the classroom. What are you thinking about going back for . Overr i was a teacher for 40 years. I miss it. But also the money. That is william from georgia. A couple of other breakdowns from the report that was released today. It is a seven percent Unemployment Rate, a new number according to the bureau of labour statistics. We are asking your thoughts on the economy and if this suggests optimism, at least to you, about the economy. If you are under 30 up next is mike from sun city california. I put this all on barack obama. It is his philip it is his philosophy in terms of growing government is causing all this anguish. This is coupled with obamacare, which is a total nightmare. I premium has gone up. This is ridiculous. What is usually created is the new underclass, the educated poor. The man does not care about free enterprise. Wants government in charge of everything. It is a different philosophy than a republican would have. That if romney were elected, we would be coming out of this by now. With all this government regulation and the government goes the government knows best and comes first, as sky has never worked hard. Arrogant,most polarizing, racist president we have ever had. The only people making excuses for him are the morally weak and politically correct liberal white apologists and the plaque and the black racists in the name of political correctness. Everyone else is realistic enough to see the frog has dissipated and this guy is a total fraud. He will go down as one of the worst president s this country has ever had. He does not care about the pain the americans are going through. Joe from new york, good morning. Caller good morning. Thank bush. To he was right 10 years ago when he said increasing domestic oil wouldtion in north dakota stimulate and create jobs. I remember senator kerry was opposed to that. Now it and it up being right because every Million Barrels we produce here, we generate 60 billion per year in revenues from that. I would say the republicans are right on the energy policy. What the thing about the new unemployment numbers . In it addsk it to the increase in our energy production. It is just going to come around and nourished the economy. It sounds good and i hope it will go down in the future. Optimistic about the job market overall . Take away the energy part about it. Caller yes, i am. I am hoping us liberals will start driving smaller and low maintenance automobiles. There are people driving super rules that are high maintenance. If these people would drive low maintenance cars they would have more disposable income to cover their contraceptive coverage or health care, and their pension. I am a liberal democrat that us liberals have to start doing our suffering. I dont know why it will go to a liberal fundraiser. I never see my liberal friends driving small fuel efficient cars. They are still driving the subarus, volvos, minivans, and all that. If you are producing 16 million cars, you better be producing more and more oil. We brag about the increase in house production and yet we do not want to increase our to mystic oil production. Ist the Unemployment Rate at seven percent. We are asking about your optimism. The lines will be on your screen. Pick the one that best represents you. We take a look at tax rates. It is congress that appears to allow a certain batch of temporary tax breaks to last at the end of 2013. Ray from Oklahoma City oklahoma, you are up next. Are you there . Good morning, you are on. I was calling about our man is going to make mistakes. The problem with the world, it does not have anything to do with obama. We have taken god out of everything he is doing. The next thing, minimum wage. I talked to a lot of people atut minimum wage at 7 25 7. 25 an hour. People say if you raise minimum wage, the influence will go up. Everything else is already going up except minimum wage. Years taken almost four to get it to seven dollars . 25. I am 61 years old, i am retired, and i have four kids. I have kids working for memo wage. They got Student Loans to pay back. Journalll street talking about Unemployment Benefits in several stories, set to expire on september 28. Several democrats are pushing for a vote to extend the benefits. House democrats propose renewing the program for 25 billion but have no way to offset the costs. The Senate BudgetCommittee Chairman were pushing for budget president obama using his weekly address to talk about Unemployment Benefits and their extension. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] thats more than 8 million jobs in the last 45 months. The Unemployment Rate fell to its lowest level in 45 years. We need to do everything we can to help his this is create more jobs. The whole we are still taking outof is still digging of means there are millions of Americans Still out of work. He have to look for the Americans Still working hard to get jobs. At is why we offer temporary Unemployment Insurance. When they get that job, they can bounce back more quickly. Unemployment insurance is one of the most effective ways there is to boost the economy. The evidence Shows Unemployment insurance does not stop people from trying to find work. We are asking a you about your optimism in light of the new Unemployment Rate. Alexander from our bunny, new from alimony, new york. Y, new york. N ofler i think what a lot people are not factoring in is when obamacare was implemented, i see all my friends in retail they put everybody to part time and they take on a lot of parttime workers so they do not have a lot of people on full time to meet the obamacare requirements. I think that probably had a big effect. A lot of people i looked at, or everybody i know who was my age, still works. They cannot afford to look on their to live on their own. I think the economy is pretty bleak in upstate new york, for the short term at least. The jobhop numbers writing stephen from massachusetts, good morning. Problem ave a everything starts from the politicians. Politicians want illegals in here. They want them all to vote because they are going to get reelected. The problem i have is 10 years job, the besta job i have had in my entire life. To fire me. I fought it and come to find out when i was only making eight dollars an hour and working 50 hours a week, two people they papers, andals, no getting paid under the table. I have nothing against illegal immigrants. But what i think the country uld do is just let people wherever they from, as long as they are citizens if the illegals want to work, let them get citizenship. Stopoliticians have to letting this go because it is going to end up happening like a lot of people say, all parttime jobs. The city i live in . All democrats. Every single one of them is a democrat. You cannot walk down the street or go into a store without seeing an immigrant. I lived here for 25 years. It used to be beautiful 20 years ago. The crime rate is skyrocketing. Pictures of he had been held by north korean officials for a time. Theas today they freed veteran of the korean war after a weeklong detention, ending the after he oversaw a group of north koreans gloria in chicago, good morning. Good morning. I am in the 55 and older group. I am so happy the economy is Getting Better. I have a friend with a fulltime and parttime job. There are jobs out here. If the people are so upset and they dont think it is getting thebetter you know how republicans college, jobs, jobs, they should be upset. What if they work with the president and bring the bill to the floor . There would be a lot of people working. Dont be upset at the president. The president and the democrats are making this economy move forward. From fort washington, maryland. I am very 100 percentage the seven percent. I would like to see it at two percent. My comment is for the caller, six colors ago. How can president obama be a racist when he is trying to provide health care to every american regardless of what ethnicity they are. Back to the economy, you said you are optimistic. Specifically, why . Caller it is Getting Better. Buts not 100 better it is Getting Better. The former president , bush, made this economy terrible. Now that things are Getting Better, it is just taking time. The republicans just keep blocking everything obama puts out there. If the republicans learn how to work with the president , maybe things can move much faster. Was do you think it because of Government Intervention that the economy is Getting Better you go better yet go better . Republicans learn how to work with the president , they be things will get done faster. There would be faster growth in the economy. Host angela in georgia. From the 31 toso 50 category. Deep in southwest georgia. Agomember about 15 years when president george w. Bush encouraged companies to thin Work Overseas and to emphasize we should have a service economy. College graduate, i have a degree in certification. I am the mother of eight kids. They are 24 to 11 years old. I have been observing what has been going on in our country for years. Feelof the politicians people will then shall he forgets when one politician has versus to put in place what the other parties are doing. Have always noticed a republicans have not really done anything to encourage job growth. There is a debt in america. When we encourage job growth people have more money and are able to put more to the economy. Host this is rich from ohio. It seems like we are having problems with flyers laying around with these numbers. The number of immigrants, illegal and legal, is almost 200,000 per month. Unemployment those numbers eventually just drop off the sheet. The third thing is money around election times, these numbers get screwed around. We should really investigate that pretty thoroughly. Program isewsmakers tomorrow at 10 00 and on the program is representative adam smith. He is the Ranking Member of the Armed Services committee, talking about issues related to the military. One of the topics addressed was the sequester and what kind of deal the democrats may except on it. May accept on it. [video clip] at a trillioning dollar budget. That is a bit over what sequester would be. It would give defense more money than was anticipated. Defense would suffer some sequester. This deal does not involve extending Unemployment Insurance and new revenue. Yourwondering if you in caucus over there, whether or not you would be willing to support such a heel for defense, even if it did not include revenue, even if it did not include money for extending Unemployment Insurance. Is not an insignificant increase because the sequestration levels for all discretionary is 957 billion. If you get it up to trillion 43 million that is a increase 43 billion increase. While it is not exactly something i would want, it is certainly better than living under government shutdowns in acr. Presented adamor smith on our Newsmakers Program tomorrow at 10 00 and 6 00. You can also see it on our website. The secretary of state john kerry is speaking this afternoon in washington dc at the Brookings Institution, talking about issues related to the middle east. You can see that live today at four clock. To addressbama set the same crowd earlier in the afternoon. Go to our website for more information and how you can see that. This tweet from sea of tranquility reflects what adam smith was talking about anyway. He says jobs numbers in the economy looks good. Talking street j