What kind of economics class did idiot Obama take?? 3rd grade??  As an american adult I invested my money in a 401k which is now half of what it was when I retired at age 50. He acts like he doesn't understand how things work. Companies have to have orders so they can hire workers we need jobs yes but not at a cost of driving these companies into bankruptcy by hiring people they don't need.

So many problems Jim, but I'll stick with my main one.

If you're so concerned about stocks and profits, why are you so unconerned with the demand side of the equation?  You kee hearing it: "profits are up" so hiring shouldn't be the problem it's being made.  Pointing this out gets a lecture in that business won't expand unless it sees the demand to expand for, putting us in the chicken and eggs scenario.  Jobs won't be created without demand for goods, demand for goods won't go up until people earn a wage that gives them money to buy goods over and above their bills. (a functioning safety net to keep them from "living in poverty" paranoia aslo wouldn't hurt.)  I've said it repeatedly: stocks rise from profits.  Profits come from sales.  Sales come from wages.  Take away the ability of the consumer clas to spend, you strangle your own portfolio.

Beyond that, I think the private sector need to act more businesslike in this and spell out exactly what hiring and expansion Obama is keeping them from doing.  They wouldn't invest money in someone providing no details or business plan.  Why should the government cut a blank check on big promises and no garuntees?

If tax cuts got people back to work ,everyone would be working right now.After all we just had ten years of them. B S.

I love when Republicans try to rip the performance of Obama with pathetic excerpts from corporate backed news stories and other lame fear tactics.

Republicans love to talk about how bad Obama is doing helping us try to recover from the Recession. Earth to Republicans, we are "recovering" from an 8 year Republican administration which panicked after 911 and made terrible decisions which put us in the situation we are in today. Terrorists knocked down our largest building in America, it was not the end of the world. Instead of letting the economy correct itself, post 911 saw George W making the worst decisions ever!

Obama did not cause current unemployment rates,  Bush did when he allowed Greenspan to double the prime interest rate in a span of 18 months in 2005 through 2006, crippling the countries financial structure, (after his 2nd term started). Maybe he should have been more aware of the avg. americans ability to pay their mortgages when rates double in a year and a half. I guess he was more concerned with "bombs bursting in air" over the middle east.

Come on Cramer, we the people are wide awake and we know for a fact that greed and capitalism are synonymous. If CEOs could make profits without hiring, they would do it. The fact that they offshored so many of our good paying jobs and are constatnly trying to kill labor unions is all the proof we need.

The President  is not there to follow the lead of the CEOs, they are there to follow The President's lead. They need to publicly apologize to the people they took for billions and start the hiring process to restore America to it's glory as a leader of the free world. Economically, philosophically, in science and tech and education and social reform. Do it now, CEOs or you will be forever hated.

Cramer is told what to write by his corporate masters - MSN should stop paying for his crap that tries to rewrite the true events that led to economic disaster.

The CEOs think they're entitled to defraud the public and take away the livelihood of workers. Those unemployed workers would rather be doing the jobs they had before being laid off by management. Why? Because management has forced the workers to shoulder the RISK...  the CEO and investors get the wages taken from families  because corporate masters think they are entitled to rob America, to enrich themselves.

Obama's behavior is a new social justice mentality that redefines the term "greed".  In other words, who is really the greedy one? People that simply want to keep what they earned, or those who want to take from you something they did not earn. 

It is not about a safety net anymore, it is about "entitlement". The worst form of greed is thinking you are entitled to something.