Why Won't Obama Give You a Job?

"The employment report last week revealed a noteworthy pattern: the number of workers being cut by employers has dropped dramatically since the worst of the crisis,"

They are lying through their teeth about the real unemployment rate ... Thanks to the adjustment of the business birth-death model in the Payroll Survey 86,000 ghost jobs were magically added last month,that's over a million ghost jobs this year, conjured from behind a desk.

A look at the Household Survey showed that job losses are once again taking off ... That survey showed 589,000 jobs lost last month alone, not the 190,000 lost jobs they reported!

And those jobs the Stimulus Bill created? Well it seems they counted new jobs where people in existing jobs got raises as new jobs. Just today we find out that some f those stimulus jobs just didn't exist! Ya just can't make this stuff up.

The real unemployment rate is over 20% and that doesn't include the millions of high school and college grads looking for their first job ...

Caveat :If and until banks are solvent all that stimulus gets sucked into oblivion …

Real employment and stimulus initiatives are; a 30 hour workweek, The USG putting a floor under people to replace the tattered safety net by guaranteeing everyone, single payer health care, unlimited though depreciating unemployment insurance. By making working hours shorter but reducing employee expenses more workers get hired, more businesses get established and more entrepreneurs have freedom from health care worries …

We could implement a carbon tax to be disbursed per capita. This serves two purposes. gets real money right where it is needed and pushes people away from energy consumption. Exports would get tax credits …

We need a 20% tariff, all countries do. This helps to keep economies diversified and insulates them from external subsidies, predatory pricing, currency manipulation and tax shopping …

Our current situation is far beyond simple individual measures and needs a package of bold and radical initiatives to even stem the unemployment tide.

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he wanted a bigger stimulus but hands were tied by the conservative Dems who watered it down like they watered down the health care reform to a weak public option. Of course Obama chose Rahm Emanuel and all those Rubinomic jerks in economic posts who have always been pro Wall Street(and K Street) elite so although i like Mr Holland's call for full employment , I dont expect much at this point from Obama. on the other hand i think it would be smart because blue dogs are sucker for jobs in their districts. Obama should hire Krugman and Stiglitz and dump the Rubinomic schmucks, but as i said before i am not holding my breath.

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I heard a radio comment that exports create jobs.

I had to laugh at that statement because the only things we have left to export is weapons.

Now I am as pro defense as the next guy, but shouldn't we actually manufacture something other than guns and airplanes if we are to extricate ourselves from this morass.

Unless we take back our manufacturing jobs from overseas, we will continue to decline into a nation of servitude. That means the poor servicing the rich for you neonutcons who can't seem to tell the difference between what's good for you vs. what's good for the wealthy.

As long as you continue to vote against your best interests, nothing will actually change.

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Wall Street banksters are raking in massive profits and giving themselves record bonuses, thanks in part to government welfare. And the editors ask: What about ordinary Amerikans?

Well... it is the patriotic duty of every fat-ass Amerikan consumer citizen to:

1. $upport der glorious [sic] troops in Iraq-nam... and other corp-rat war profiteering $cams!
2. $alute der glorious [sic] flag... and in-heil to the Chief! (no inhaling!)
3. Pray to Jeeezass... our "Lord an' $avior."
4. Bend over for the ethno/racist theocrazy of Israel.

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and remaking our infrastructures. Instead of pioneering methodologies of efficient domestic manufacturing we've outsourced our braintrust to create algorithms for derivative models that are like their investors/brokers - empty.

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I'm torn between two answers to the question.

1) Obama, Emmanuel, and company are machine politicians. They are running the Democratic Party in the Chicago mold. Their actions are calculated to shore up and strengthen the party machine, with little or no attention to the desires of the voters.

Or

2) We have another incompetent ex-cokehead in the White House.

Thank you, progressives! Either way, the Bammer is a One-Termer. :)

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One HUGE reason we have mega-corporations like AIG that have grown "too big to fail" is the fact that successive administrations -- from Ronald Reagan's onward -- have steadfastly refused to vigorously enforce our nation's anti-trust laws to prevent these mega-corporations from becoming mega in the first place.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is right: If they're too big to fail, then they're too big to exist. I will go further and say that these mega-ciorporations are illegal under federal anti-trust laws.

The time is past due to pressure the Justice Department to enforce our anti-trust laws and BREAK UP these mega-corporations into smaller firms.

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...will come following this seasons retail sales. I predict more major chains closing(except Walmart of course) as holiday spending will be flat at best compared to last season. This of course will lead to more unemployment and more main street collapse as people lose their health care insurance and more homeowners face foreclosure.

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I told Alabama how to fix the system' Completely and all I got was and offer to have donuts with him and dick, At there weekly public geek off session in dc' They do not listen to intelligent idea's that will work' They listen to the cash monopoly and the "money changers' who put us in this mess' In-tell we get those, Argent cash givers out of DC' Things will never change. One of the things I told them was to put all rail, "Threw ground' To stop the needless deaths that Railroads cause. 30 children a year are killed by trains 50 adults and yea it does not add up to as many car fatalities but maybe they are partly from the same cause easy access to roads by pedestrians causes death.
Did they listen no it's not in the best interest for, Mega corporations to make a
"Profit by a, Prophet' But there even wrong! And whoever is preventing this is evil more so than even the Devil himself, Because innocent lives are taken' Every single day on our highways of hate and they all could be prevented every one of them. By putting all roadways even threw ground.

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A rich relative explained it to me like this: "Nowadays, you don't get what you want just by what you have. You have to get to where you owe so much money, that they will be afraid not to help you, lest they hurt themselves in the process. And only the Big Guys can do that".

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...In case you hadn't noticed, there have been a large number of these assholes lately...

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ending all water deprivation every city state and town by channeling it all to there needed city and state agriculture areas that are hardest hit with drought I am sick and tired of hearing about no water, Here or there when this idea of mine would give everyone all the water they wanted by letting this system catch and distribute it every American needed it. Everyone would have a job every heavy equipment operator' and we might even need some Mexican mussel for this. Also prison power' use this to help give people incarcerated a way to reprove themselves, And make them feel human again. And if these mongol corporations don't like this because it gives no profit ask them where there going to get there water from in the next drought I cause for not listing to me.

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...is that at this point, there is no way of recovering short of complete collapse/rebuild. Thanks to the crooks running the economy over the last 30+ years, we have no economic base left to create jobs that create value- all we have left is make-work bullshit jobs that shuffle forms from one place to another- usually tracking money as it gets extracted from the USA. The foundation of the US has been sold off to the ultra-elite wealthy from other nations, and its not coming back. Our labor pool is destroyed- all creation-type work is done in 3rd world hellholes at pennies per hour, we graduate less and less scientists and technical people every year (I think it was either last year or the year before that that China announced -loudly- that they graduated 500,000 engineers in ONE YEAR- its time to be afraid, folks). Our economy is still in a freefall (its not reported how bad it really is because there would be riots and beheadings of bankers in the streets if it were) unemployment is approaching Great Depression levels with no real solution in sight and no enthusiasm by our elected crooks to fix it (because that would harm their, ahem, 'investors'). The list goes on and on and ON...

As I keep saying, the only way to fix this nation is to remove its government, imprison or kill its leaders (no, not 'throw them out of office'- voting only works if corruption hasn't infected the pollsters- and it HAS-ask emperor bu$h!) burn the old institutions to the ground and start over. The USA is infected by a pervasive and rapidly metasticizing cancer. The only way you can treat cancer is to burn it out with chemo and nuke it with radiation- in effect, to kill it so that the body, now free of the malady, can recover. You can't reason with it, you can't ignore it and can't just 'live with it' as it WILL eventually kill you. Its survival of the fittest, and the sooner we come to grips that the only way to fix the real problems of the nation, as they stand, is to drown them in blood, the faster we can recover from it. There is going to be blood one way or the other at this point, and if we don't wake up soon, its going to be OURS that runs in the gutters.

Its beyond just 'getting back to normal' at this point- its rapidly fazing into a question of weather we can come back at all, or if we head back to the dark ages, maybe forever.

It may already be too late.

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They might think they're insulated, think again.

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HELTER SKELTER

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Millions in the U.S. are homeless, hungry, and without jobs. They can be rescued if only they would share their burden. The unemployed should be given the job of housing and feeding the homeless and hungry. It would be a practical way of putting Americans to work and eliminating an eyesore in our nation.

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WTO/GATT agreements and the consequences of NAFTA:
During this past year few years agricultural products have become another item where this country, once referred to as the breadbasket of the world, has a trade deficit. Yearly some 63% of our fruits and vegetables are now imported along with 1.5 billion lbs of beef, while American family farmers can�t sell their product and go out of business. And the cost of groceries have not dropped but increased. Rather its the profits of multinationals that control the production, distribution, and sale of this food has increased. And those profits are used to buy a Senator and accelerate the destruction of family farms.

Two farmers well acquainted with the situation of the American family farmer were interviewed. Ron Wilson, an apple grower in the Yakima valley mentioned how the number of buyers for apples has been consolidated in recent years from 150 to 5, and the amount that American farmers get for their product, when they can sell it, has been reduced even as the markup on fruit has gone from 50% to up to 300%. There is no profit to the American farmer who produces food, but growing profit to the corporations that control its delivery to markets. Ron mentioned how the local asparagus farmers are now going under because the local packer will no longer buy from them but imports his product from South America.

The 2nd farmer interviewed, Bill Shepard from Oklahoma told a similar story of a local watermelon farmer that made an agreement with a local grocer to sell his watermelons. The following day the agreement was cancelled. The grocer said his distributor told him that if he purchased local produce the distributor would stop delivery of goods to his store�.that�s the true face of �free trade�. Bill relayed a story of another local farmer who left his sweet potatoes to rot in the field because he could not even get the cost of digging them at 2 cents a lb while the local grocery was selling them at 79 cents a lb.

Bill noted that for vegetables the situation is even more controlled and that 3 buyers control 90% of the food that makes it to groceries, and that these buyers and distributors simply restrict their buying to subsidiaries in South America�.that is the true face of �free trade�: corporate, monopolistic, and destructive to the American economy while it concentrate more wealth into the hands of multinationals. The wide division of the wealthy and the poor of Mexico is the model of our future.

And it is not simply our economic deconstruction. Bill took a visit to Mexico and visited the corporate vegetable fields. What he described sounded like a scene from a dark, dark sci-fi film. He looked out over fields watered from the sewage lagoons of Mexico City. As the hundreds of peasants picked the broccoli plants a plane passes over the field spraying DDT. And because the grower was an American corporation, this DDT sprayed broccoli would arrive at your grocery in some form, fresh or frozen, labeled an American produced product. That too is the true face of �free trade�, our representatives (overlords, really) that speak of a �culture of life� and �family values�. Whose family is it that they value? It is not the family of the American farmer or worker, or the families of the peasants they poison and exploit in third world countries.

The Donket's and Elephants are grazing on the Hill. When they relieve themselves it trickles down ro the citizens.

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See Dean Baker's article below. As I read it, I thought of the Project for a New American Century and it's "biblical" paper, Rebuilding America's Defenses [Cheny, Rumsfeld, Wolfowicz, etc] and what it said defense spending should be compared to GDP.

Relate that to warresisters charts combining military w/ VA and interest on military spending loans here: http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm Total Outlays (Federal Funds): $2,650 billion MILITARY: 54% and $1,449 billion NON-MILITARY: 46% and $1,210 billion.

Add that to the trillions in bank bailouts and we have a problem, don't we? Can we talk "entitlement" programs now? That is why the Blue Dogs are going to go after Social Security again: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-
entry/2009114613/its-baack-catfood-
commission#comment-12133

I want to make special note that RAD talked about the "middle class" armed forces. THAT is where the jobs are today. Do we need a draft as Bill Moyers dared our government to produce if we escalate in Afghanistan: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/
heather/bill-moyers-bring-back-draft where it costs $1 million per soldier per year http://www.opednews.com/articles/Afghan-
Escalation-Would-Ma-by-David-Sirota-
091116-625.html?

Last, note that our military spending is far above Cheney's wish list of 3.8% equivalent to the GDP, per Baker, it is now 5.6%.

Federal Spending, 2001-2008: Defense Is a Rapidly Growing Share of the Budget, While Domestic Appropriations Have Shrunk
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=125

Note the amounts of the private contractor awards in the military here: 2014 or Bust: The Pentagon's Building Boom in Afghanistan Indicates a Long War Ahead Thursday 05 November 2009
by: Nick Turse | TomDispatch.com
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175135 http://www.truthout.org/1106091

Massive Defense Spending Leads to Job Loss
Dean Baker
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-
columns/op-eds-&-columns/defense-spending-job-loss/ "In the most recent quarter, defense spending was equal to 5.6 percent of GDP. By comparison, before the September 11th attacks, the Congressional Budget Office projected that defense spending in 2009 would be equal to just 2.4 percent of GDP. Our post-September 11th build-up was equal to 3.2 percentage points of GDP compared to the pre-attack baseline. This means that the Global Insight projections of job loss are far too low."

Compare to:
REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSES
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf Pg 3 “Today, America spends less than 3 percent of its gross domestic product on national defense, less than at any time since before the Untied States established itself as the world’s leading power and a cut from 4.7 percent of DGP in 1992, the first real post-Cold-War defense budget…pg23 Make efforts to improve the quality of soldier life to sustain the current “middle class” army….pg 51 Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor…..pg75 Nevertheless, we believe that, over time, the program we advocate would require budgets roughly equal to those necessary to fully fund the QDR force- a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product.

Private Contractor spending: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-soltz/
-peter-to-kill-paul_b_355061.html
Paying Peter to Kill Paul
How the US Funds the Taliban
By Aram Roston
This article appeared in the November 30, 2009 edition of The Nation.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston

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You have to hand it to those banks. They got taxpayer money to get toxic assets off their books (still there) and to make business loans (not much happening).

Instead the banks are putting the money into foreign bonds at 3-6% interest, money they received or borrowed at 0-1% interests from the Fed or FDIC. Smart guys. Dumb government giving away our tax revenues with no restrictions.

How come there is no Congressional hearing to get the biggest banks to give a detailed accounting of how they used the money? Because it would show how stupidly Congress acted.

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No our own military and civil strong faithful men and women will put and iron fist threw the belly of the corporation beast soon if they do not listen to me. Just look at the "Killdozer demonstration' And you will see the future of America when we kick these ignorant arrogant creeps!
"Out of our country' Before they cause world war three. Or it will be other countries attacking us, Because we cannot pay our debt's because Clinton and Bush baby' Outsourced our jobs then bankrupted our country so which one will it be for not listening to me I told Alabama how to fix the system' Completely and all I got was and offer to have donuts with him and dick, At there weekly public geek off session;
"in Washington' They do not listen to intelligent idea's that will work' They listen to the cash monopoly and the "money changers' who put us in this mess' In-tell we get those, Argent cash givers out of DC' Things will never change. One of the things I told them was to put all rail, "Threw ground' To stop the needless deaths that Railroads cause. 30 children a year are killed by trains 50 adults and yea it does not add up to as many car fatalities but maybe they are partly from the same cause easy access to roads by pedestrians causes death.
Did they listen no it's not in the best interest for, Mega corporations to make a prophet but there even wrong! And whoever is preventing this is evil more so than even the Devil himself because innocent lives are taken' Every single year on our highways and they all could be prevented every one of them. By putting all roadways even threw ground. ending all water deprivation every city state and town by channeling it all to there needed city and state agriculture areas that are hardest hit with drought I am sick and tired of hearing about no water, Here or there when this idea of mine would give everyone all the water they wanted by letting this system catch and distribute it every American needed it. Everyone would have a job every heavy equipment operator' and we might even need some Mexican mussel for this. Also prison power' use this to help give people incarcerated a way to reprove themselves, And make them feel human again. And if these mongol corporations don't like this because it gives no profit ask them where there going to get there water from in the next drought I cause for not listing to me.

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BECAUSE ALL THEIR EMPLOYEES are in other countries where workers don't whine about health care or low wages.

Never fear US College Grads there are waiter/waitress jobs, and low paying health care entry level positions available and you can retrain in just a few weeks !!!!

Do our elected servants even care?

....It costs $1 Million to keep a soldier in Afghanistan for on year. USA does produce WMD's in some STATES.

...There are 2.5 millionaires in the US at the end of 2008 and 44% OR 237 of them are serving in the US CONGRESS. Look at how they smile and joke with each other !!!!

49 million Americans faced "FOOD INSECURITY" in 2008, otherwise known as HUNGER. HELLO!!! Our people are FAT because cheap meals are provided for $2.00 at fast food corporation centers. To cook you need a roof over your heads.

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The only way to break the deathgrip of the Corportocracy is to remove all thier hired hands from control of the government.

Vote and vote 3rd party...ANY third party of your choice.

Anyone on the ballot not in the Donkey or Elephant herd.

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

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PLEASE BOOT THE SPAMMERS. THIS IS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR.

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Paul Krugman wrote about Germany and their approach to unemployment. More people work fewer hours, get to keep their jobs, and are subsidized to help offset their diminished salaries instead of collecting full unemployment. It does force responsibility on the corporations and cuts into their obscene profits. I don't think they see themselves as part of the problem. Every job lost is a consumer unable to support the very businesses that are laying off workers. At some point the game is over. Company profits are not generated by increased business, but by being able to hold on to more of the money. Payroll is big bucks. I'm not an economist, but companies over the last year have been able to invest huge sums of money and Wall St. has been very good to them. They have no need to improve their products or services. Their money is making them enough money. They no longer need people. Cutbacks should have peaked months ago. Corporations are simply jumping on the band wagon. Firing people is profitable. Obama can't find everyone a job but he sure as hell can get on Congress and put an abrupt end to indiscriminate firing. It would be a start. ANNA

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will go the same way...only difference is the Romans had a 2000 year rule....United States is barely to 250 years and the wheels already coming loose

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Readers of this blog probably get tired of me saying it's all about Tariffs on imports. Thom Hartmann spoke at length the other day on this subject. The Japanese car industry was built on tariffs of US goods. I keep saying the power brokers of this Nation don't give a shit about the American worker. Period! As long profits are up, everyone is happy. There will be no new jobs in this rich man's recovery. Unemployment will stay in double digits for years to come. I feel sorry for my grand children and future generations. They will face severe obstacles getting good jobs unless they are well connected or well educated.

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Pathetic.

Government is killing jobs through taxation and regulation.

California and Michigan are perfect examples.

Business are fleeing from heavy Government interference in job creation.

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It sure seems that way so far!!!

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Look at Hoover in 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Authorized to make emergency loans to banks, insurance companies, and railroads. Pretty funny if you substitute "General Motors" for "railroads". I see a pattern here. I was hoping for Roosevelt when I voted, but all I got was Hoovered. The new WPA won't come for another few years, when the bodies start to pile up in the streets.

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Our current problems, not just the ones that are carryovers from the former Administration which led us into this mess to begin with, stem from one fact: The Democrats - all of them - seem to think that we are still in 1999, when the economy was reasonably healthy. All their decisions seem to lead to this conclusion. It does not help that they have retreads from the Clinton era making decisions based on old economic models, or corporate hacks from Emanuel to Reid and Pelosi calling the legislative agenda (remember Reid and Pelosi's infamous comments about the White House would not tell them what to do! Maybe they should have listened more and talked less?)

Our economy is still in freefall - and anyone who says different has their head in the sand. Our unemployment is still rising, our manufacturing sector is nearly non-existent, entire segments of our economy are controlled by only a handful of companies, our agricultural segment is dominated by corporations that are creating unhealthy food and decimated land, and our education system is destroyed almost to the point of non-recovery. Folks, we are in bad shape, and if we wait for the politicians to safe us, we are doomed.

Joshua is right - the economic stimulus was too small, but thanks to the GOP, the Blue Dogs, and the likes of FOX media and ignorant Tea Partiers, it was all that could get passed. It did not work in the way it should have as a result - but I do not see anyone standing up and taking credit for the failure from among that crowd. Do we need another stimulus package? Probably, but it needs to be structured differently, and it needs broad public support, which it may never get thanks to the media that likes crisis rather than solution. So what are we to do? We roll up our sleeves and we put ourselves to work.

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MacGill and Lerman can stuff it as far as I'm concerned. I've spent the entire 16 months of my unemployment upgrading my skills, but I still don't have a job. And the classes I take (accounting, advanced Word and Excel, QuickBooks, Spanish, etc.) are full of people in their fifties doing the same thing. Retraining and upgrading skills don't necessarily result in jobs, if there are no jobs.

And I can remember the jobs programs of the Seventies, back when we actually had an economy that (sort of) worked, and how even though Nixon put this program in, the coming conservative Republican majority hated it. Since the Blue Dogs resemble Nixon, someone is going to have to stomp on them hard in order to get a real jobs program like the WPA.

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Not too bad, but Joshua omits the real reason: they're g-d Republicans. With a smiley face to keep us oh, so happy. (Of course, this is equivalent to they're just crooked, beholden to big business money - which, to be fair, he does say.)

And "TIMIDITY?" Will we ever get past this ridiculous DP spin? Just ask the Clintons: are Obama and his people "timid"? Are Congresspeople who defy their constituents' anger "timid"? And I don't mean the Teabaggers, whom they played up as an excuse for inaction, I mean us. I mean all those unemployable young people who fell for the scam.

Back to the basics: The Democrats have COMPLETE, UNQUALIFIED CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT, the whole trifecta. So there they are, doing the Full Monty with no Republican fig leaf and their real agenda hanging out for all to see. What they do is who they are. They can try to hide it by playing up the big, bad, crazy Republicans (who play along with the game, of course), but it's really just silly, a charade meant to rally our support for their poor, beleaguered, utterly powerful selves.

They'll be SO relieved when they lose ground in Congress next year. My guess is they'll keep control, because nobody wants the R's in charge, including the R's, but they won't have unqualified control: narrow margins in both houses. And then we'll hear plaintive cries about how they were just too "liberal" (expletives deleted), so they have to be even more "bipartisan" (decode: giving the bankers and insurance companies EVERYTHING they want.)

My suggestion: we should play along with that electoral game, not by voting for Republicans, but by voting and campaigning for REAL progressives - the Green Party, or whoever else you can find that's equivalent. Next year, we may have a real shot at putting a few in office, because the Dems are vulnerable at a time when NOBODY wants the Republicans back; at the least, if you "spoil" the race for a Democrat, they know they lost because they weren't progressive ENOUGH. That's pressure where it counts - on Nov. 6.

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IS FUCKIN' BROKE

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. . . if we had simply let the Wall Street gangsters take their own medicine and either rise or fall according to the "free market" which they have always claimed to love? It was their mess--let them deal with it.

Then, we could have taken the several trillion dollars which we gave to the crooks and used that money to create jobs for, and save the homes of, working Americans (you know, the kind who actually contribute something to our economy). Several trillion dollars would have supplied a LOT of economic security for working people, whatever happened on Wall Street.

Instead, we've gotten the usual "socialism for the rich" and f#@k everyone else. It's time to clean house, one way or another, both on Wall Street and in Washington.

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We have elections next year that have the entire House of Representatives and 1/3 of the Senate up for re-election. What they need is a good dose of unemployment. Let's throw these heartless bastards out of their posh jobs and teach them a lesson. Regardless of party we need to elect all new representatives and senators to replace those who won't listen to WE THE PEOPLE. We need speak with our votes!

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As known from 1896 the capitalistic way of production and ownership CREATEs a depression or recession or whatever you call it every 60 years.

The socialism wasnt that good in the production of consumer goods. BUt at least there was job security and health care for all.

I hope Alternat.org once will publish an article re. the Swedish model;
a combination of socialdemocratic policy and Capitalisme.
I also should like to know; what is the situation in Canada???

Your present economical system CREATED this mess, HOW on earth you think that the virus that made you ill can cure you??
If the bonuses of the bankers are used for jobs this would benefit the whole country.
And believe if OBAMA would tell the nation he would do so, millions of unemployed and minimum wage guys would protest; Donot touch the money of my Boss.
The freedom to cash billions means poverty for millions.
On TV I saw a young couple living in their car; The boy said Still I am happy to be in America instead of that socialistic Europe.

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My family is trying to support the local economy. Whenever possible we buy locally and support the local farmers market and small family owned fruit and vegetable stands. Since our savings are earning so little interest, we've tried to upgrade appliances to energy efficient and initiate home repairs as they are needed. We purchased an energy efficient refrigerator and the thing has already had problems. The repair man from the manufacturer simply said that we should get an extended warranty since they don't make them like they used to.

We hear people complaining about the lack of jobs, but we can't find people willing to do the smaller jobs in the yard and around the house even though we are willing to pay them what they ask. We also try to spread the jobs around when possible. For example using two different electricians to correct some wiring problems and install energy efficent security lights.

I believe that we should shift to regional manufacturing and food supply. Since this county has lost several industries to other countries, we have facilities standing idle. This is probably true for other counties. Perhaps we could get better made products and certainly employ people.

The community college is offering job training courses and the local government seems to be trying to get new industries and business in. I worry about the working people and how they are going to earn a living or simply survive in these times. Local governments are doing as much as they can, but this global economy has decimated local economies and job markets. The Obama administration needs to step up and put serious funds and programs in place to establish support for main street and build jobs. There are no more important issues right now. In the meantime, some of the unemployed workers might want to check out local neighborhoods and implement the small jobs that are available to earn money.

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That's almost all I have to say, except: Change? Nope. On every front, Obama has fucked us over big time. Politics as usual. Bend over, folks. '09 selling us out. This is the message I have posted in the rear window of my car (that gets 40 mpg - not enough, is it, when technology that is readily available but not for the average driver - could get 100 plus).

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If those bailout funds had gone out to the average citizens, think of what a kick in the butt to the economy it would have been...

Little bit of a grass roots....but then, he's forgot a bit, how that works...

Lotsa pork got cleared out though....That stuff only trickles so far...

Expect more.....

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White House Claims 'Stimulus' Saved/Created 650,000 Jobs (but it imported 1,125,000 foreign workers at same time)

http://www.numbersusa.com/
content/nusablog/beckr/
october-30-2009/white-house-
claims-stimulus-savedcreated-
650000-jobs-it-imported-1125

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...To enlighten anyone with at my disposal right here and now, but what I can tell you is the current work status of both myself and a good friend of mine. I, like a number of other folks with similar circumstances, have been wrestling with some pretty heavy psychological issues (or "behavioral health" problems as some put it) combined with a history of substance abuse for most of my life now. And even though I do accept responsibility for the majority of how things have turned out, my work history is spotty at best. And after 15+ years of jumping from one half-decent job to a low-wage crap job, amidst anywhere from months to years of unemployment (getting by on non-to-low skilled short term gigs), I'm finally on my way to getting my sh*t together.
While I do have some advantages not everybody like myself has, such as: a high school diploma/ no felonies(so far, lol!)/ strong family support I earned by taking care of my late grandfather/ good looks & intelligence, I also have a lot working against me to this day. And because of my unfortunate situation, it's harder than ever to find work right now. But I know in the long run, things will improve provided I keep pushing for it.
On the other hand, there's my lifelong friend, Dean. He's worked hard his whole life, slowly climbing the ladder of success in order to realize his own idea of the "American Dream". While I was slipping and falling, he went from working at a pizza joint to doing sheet metal fabrication work, then trade school and on to becoming a Heating and Cooling Repair Tech. Now he works for a nation-wide company fixing and manufacturing A/C units for railroad cars, has a faithful wife and 4 kids, owns his own house, etc. But here just in the past week or so, his job started cutting back on work-hours, causing him to lose a whole day's wages. His wife had to take maternity leave to have their new baby boy, and just started back full time at her job, while bills and expenses keep piling up. (You know the economy's bad when the railroad industry starts making cuts). He'll probably get through it all without suffering as bad as a lot of unemployed families are right now, but who knows what could happen in the future?
And through all these grim economic times, when people world-wide are getting left behind even more than ever in the past few years, some literally starving to death; the fortunate few are doing better than ever! In fact, the greediest and most cold-blooded are actually exploiting the situation to benefit themselves in every way possible while our elected and/or appointed officials keep wasting time and trillions of dollars, not to mention throughing away the lives of 100s of millions of people like it's all a game!!! It's time for the masses to organize and put a stop to this b.s. before it really is too late, no matter how heinous things get. Will the REAL Sister Freedom and Lady Justice please stand up?

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We are being Devoured by the Elite and our government is assisting.

American government jobs are going to India. In a failing economy this is beyond words. Check this out:

We're Outsourcing Food Stamp Jobs To India
http://consumerist.com/5232809/were-

outsourcing-food-stamp-jobs-to-india
(Take out the space in the url to reach it)

But that's not even the kicker: The kicker is that people are giving every last ounce of their financial information to the banks that own these call centers. In the case of this article, JP Chase Morgan owns the India Call Center taking intake for food stamps. So while you are trying to protect your sensitive info from predatory financial institutions you are telling them everything when you get food stamps because they go over everything you own, owe, and who you owe in detail. This is freaking insane.

The Elite are systematically waging war on the American citizen and that our government is rotten to the core with the sycophants of that elite.

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