Charles C. wrote:


"bpuharic" wrote in message
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On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:01:47 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:



This basic concept has been talked about for a long time. I find it
truly
loony that if you say you're in school, e.g., training for a new career,
you're unemployment benefits suffer. Of course, this would be unpopular,
mainly because it's a complicated explanation... not that it doesn't
make
some sense.


but of course we know that, according to the right, unemployment is
caused by the lazy middle class.


Much of the current unemployment is caused by the elimination of jobs
due to outsourcing overseas. Jobs "added" so far this year don't even
keep up with the numbers of new people just entering the job market, let
alone decent jobs for those who have been laid off, a fact that the
liberal press likes to overlook.


"Liberal press" my ass. What does the mighty Wall Street Journal have
to say?
All working journalists are working. They have jobs and income.
Money to buy cheap imported goods.
They are part of an elite. Why should they upset the applecart?
Same with the pols.

A serious program to save existing jobs and promote the creation of new
jobs is needed to get out of this economic slump. Time for the POTUS
and congress to face facts and stop throwing money at the problem as a
temporary fix. Get tough with trade agreements and create incentives to
manufacture in the USA . Most people want to work.

"Most?" How about damn near all.
You have an obvious answer - balancing trade - but both political
parties are tied to the free trade/consumerist mentality.
They are owned by Wall Street and the Chambers of Commerce.
And their answer is to lower taxes and keep offshoring jobs.
After all, the current bosses who have managed the economy are the
experts. Right.
Run your unemployment compensation idea by them and the first thing
they'll say is you're giving gov handouts to bums.
Get it past them and they'll lower wages to scoop up gov gravy.
Bums all over the place.
Rather squawk than think and sacrifice for the future and greater good.
Call them the "Me Generation" or whatever you want.
I call them the "Never Been Hungry Generation."
Then you've got the WTO to deal with, another organization controlled by
wealth.
Nope, nothing much will happen until the situation gets much worse.
If those in power can keep the "downtrodden" off the streets and avoid
"10 Million Homeless March on Washington" events, we will continue
to decline.
Just have to maintain some minimum level of subsistence for the folks,
and blame them for their own poverty.
There's some element of truth to that.
And the rich will get richer while the poor get poorer.
The right will say it's all good, and the left will whine but do nothing.
Barring something seriously shaking up the status quo, that's how it
will transpire.
Some serious turmoil is the only thing that can change our direction.
Always is.

Jim - No guts, no progress. No blood, no progress.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
Jimmy Buffett