Commentary
The Book of Job or the Book on Jobs? Either Way It's Painful
Government focused on jobs for Sherrod and Hayward, forget the millions of Americans in need.

By Dan Gainor
The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
Business & Media Institute
7/28/2010 3:40:45 PM

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Job or jobs?



Speak the first a certain way and you are talking about the Book of Job from the Old Testament. Job was a fortunate and pious man who lost everything proving his faith in trial after trial.



If you are looking for one of those elusive jobs, you know a little how Job felt. It’s not just that there aren’t any jobs, it’s that no one in the administration or the media really give a darn whether you get one.



They’re interested in jobs alright. In the past week, their focus has been on just two of them – Shirley Sherrod’s supposedly “racistâ€