White Collar Reset: Why aren't we talking about tax credits for new jobs?

I'm getting the impression that America would prefer that the 14.5 million of us who are unemployed would just disappear. Most people from the Fed on down apparently have decided that nothing much can be done to improve the unemployment picture in the foreseeable future, so why depress everyone further by spending too much time talking, blogging or commenting on camera about it?

Oh sure, every month when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics issues the latest update of its grim count (as it will tomorrow), my fellow jobless and I rise to the top of the news cycle for 24 hours or so, but then pretty quickly it's back to the screaming over health care, happy buyers cashing in their incentives on new cars and first homes and the latest fashion faux paw of Bo the Obama family puppy.