Think about this. The U.S. needs 10,600,000 jobs just to get back to pre-recession unemployment rates. EPI:

The labor market is now roughly 10.6 million jobs below the level needed to restore the pre-recession unemployment rate (5.0% in December 2007). To get down to the pre-recession unemployment rate within four years, the labor market would have to add roughly 325,000 jobs every month for that entire period.

Even the OECD is reporting the United States needs 10 million jobs.

Creating jobs has to be a top priority for governments,” said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, launching the report in Paris. “Cutting unemployment and fiscal deficits at the same time is a daunting challenge but it needs to be tackled head on. Despite signs of recovery in most countries, the risk remains that millions of people may lose touch with the labour market. High joblessness as the new normal can not be accepted and has to be tackled by a comprehensive policy strategy.

Even worse, the OECD estimates it's member countries need 80 million jobs!

Altogether, there are 47 million unemployed in the OECD area today. But taking into account people who have given up looking for work or are working part-time but want to work full-time, the actual number of unemployed and under-employed in OECD countries could be about 80 million.

We are now filled with pundits and pseudo finance writers proclaiming those jobs are not coming back and many Americans will never work again.

What is it about work being a requirement to survive these people, working at their nice cushy jobs, do not get? Are they hoping 10,600,000 people disappear to make the unemployment rate look better? The callousness and coldness towards the U.S. workforce is despicable. What's wrong with these people? The number 10,600,000 isn't just some figure on a spreadsheet, these are people! Real Americans who need real income to pay for food, clothing and shelter. Remember those? What used to be considered a basic right of every U.S. citizen?

Creating jobs has to be a top priority for governments,” said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, launching the report in Paris. “Cutting unemployment and fiscal deficits at the same time is a daunting challenge but it needs to be tackled head on. Despite signs of recovery in most countries, the risk remains that millions of people may lose touch with the labour market. High joblessness as the new normal can not be accepted and has to be tackled by a comprehensive policy strategy.

Let's see, we have millions of jobs offshore outsourced by Federal and State contracts alone. Illegal workers make up about 5% of the workforce in the United States. We have over 3.65 million foreign guest workers. Now, hmmm, let's see, how could we immediately get 10,600,000 jobs for Americans who desperately need them?

The The Stop Outsourcing and Create American Jobs Act of 2010 (H.R. 5622) would go a long way to help create American jobs. The bill

deters corporations from using tax havens to hide assets and create jobs overseas by increasing civil and criminal penalties for illegal transactions involving a tax haven country, such as fraud, false claims, and tax evasion.

According to the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a study conducted in late 2008, an estimated 83 out of the 100 biggest public corporations have subsidiaries in tax haven countries or similar jurisdictions. Often, these subsidiaries are created by corporations to take advantage of foreign tax structures and replace American jobs with cheap labor.

The bill also requires federal agencies to request information about a corporations’ outsourcing practices when it applies for government contracts and allows preference for companies that have not outsourced jobs in the last year.

Make no mistake, the U.S. has 10,600,000 million jobs. The problem is this government and corporations are putting the American worker last in consideration. Our government traded away these very jobs due to special interest and multinational corporate demands.