This is the longest period of unemployment over 7% in my lifetime. People are worried.

Among American workers, poll finds unprecedented anxiety about jobs, economy

By Jim Tankersley and Scott Clement, Published: November 25 E-mail the writers

CHESTER, Pa. — The alarm rang on John Stewart’s phone at 1:10 a.m. Up at 1:30, he caught one bus north into Philadelphia a little after 2 and another bus, south toward the airport, half an hour after that. He made it into work around 3:25 for a shift that started at 4, for a job that pays $5.25 an hour, which he cannot afford to lose.

Stewart is 55, tall and thin and animated. At work he wears a clip-on tie, a white cotton shirt with a fraying collar and a pair of black sneakers he nabbed on sale for $12.99 a few days ago. He wheels elderly air passengers from the ticket counters through security and to their gates, and back again, and every once in a while they tip him. Usually for lunch he buys a candy bar. His skin flakes from psoriasis, which gets worse when he worries, which, these days, is all the time. He can’t pay for treatments to soothe the itching or for a car to shorten his pre-dawn commute.

“I can’t save money,” he said recently, “to buy the things I need to live as a human being.”

Stewart is black. Whaddya wanna bet that he voted for Obungler. Skin color trumps economic reality.

American workers are living with unprecedented economic anxiety, four years into a recovery that has left so many of them stuck in place. That anxiety is concentrated heavily among low-income workers such as Stewart.

So what did these Americans do after four years of the most anemic recovery in my lifetime? They reelected the incompetent dude whose policies have only prolonged the agony. Talk about cognitive dissonance! One of my friends told me he voted for Obumbler this time because “he kept us out of a depression”.

He did what? WTF? He took an economic crisis, threw billions of dollars at it and then passed a healthcare law that has made unemployment worse, turned full time jobs into part time jobs, and has driven up the cost of healthcare. My friend’s economic ignorance is appalling. He’s an intelligent person but he bought Hope and Change not once, but twice. It explains why he and his wife who are DINKs (dual income, no kids) have less money than I do and why both of them are still working at 66.

I didn’t scrimp to get that way. I took nice vacations. Before my accident I skippered bare boat charters every other year in the British Virgin Islands. One year I went to Greece with my family and others and we chartered a sailboat and spent ten days sailing the Greek Islands. We hired a skipper for that even though there were three of us on the trip who had skippered sailboats. The Greek skipper knew where to go and where to eat. One year my mother, sister, her husband, and my nephew, chartered a sailboat (my bil skippered) in the Grenadines. After my accident, I did a lot of traveling with my mother. Went to England, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Egypt, and Russia. And of course, long time readers know of my dive trips and ski trips. I lived well and retired at 58. I have a nice wine collection and live in a large house. So I became a SRF while living high on the hog.

But I digress. Intelligent people can make mistakes, but to compound the error?

More than six in 10 workers in a recent Washington Post-Miller Center poll worry that they will lose their jobs to the economy, surpassing concerns in more than a dozen surveys dating to the 1970s. Nearly one in three, 32 percent, say they worry “a lot” about losing their jobs, also a record high, according to the joint survey, which explores Americans’ changing definition of success and their confidence in the country’s future. The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia specializing in public policy, presidential scholarship and political history.

Yet, enough of these workers voted for the SCoaMF to reelect him last year. It boggles the mind. How could these people be so stupid? I can see 2008. The economy was bad and as in many economic disasters it was caused by good intentions: lending money to poor people to buy houses they couldn’t afford. What could possibly go wrong? The road to hell is paved with good intentions, yannow like trying to get universal healthcare without causing premiums to go up. Unfortunately Obeavis is not Capt Picard so when he sez, “Make it so!” it ain’t gonna work.

Job insecurities have always been higher among low-income Americans, but they typically rose and fell across all levels of the income ladder. Today, workers at the bottom have drifted away, occupying their own island of in­security.

As I have pointed out many times on this blog, blacks, who are usually at the bottom of the income scale, have done worse under Obutthead than they have under Reagan or both Bushes. Funny that. And liberals progressives rat bastard commies can’t grasp the concept that when you raise the cost of sumpin’, like labor, by raising the minimum wage or forcing employers to pay for healthcare, the employer is gonna look for some way to cut expenses. One way is to have less people. It’s cheaper to pay for overtime than it is to hire a new worker.

Fifty-four percent of workers making $35,000 or less now worry “a lot” about losing their jobs, compared with 37 percent of ­lower-income workers in 1992 and an identical number in 1975, according to surveys by Time magazine, CNN and Yankelovich, a market research firm. Intense worry is far lower, 29 percent, among workers with incomes between $35,000 and $75,000, and it drops to 17 percent among those with incomes above that level.

And with all of that angst, Oboner still got reelected. It took the Healthcare.gov disaster to finally drive home the fact that Obeauzeau is a liar and a fraud, just like all of the Dimocrats who rammed Obummercare down our throats. Now, his poll numbers are finally dropping.

So, America. Are you happy with what Obuzzkill and the Dimocrats have done for to you? You got what you voted for, good and hard. With sand in the KY Jelly.

Elections have consequences.

Even so, the American electorate has become so stupid I’ll be willing to bet that five of the ten Dimocrat senators running for reelection in red states will get reelected. That mean we’re what?

We’re doomed!