The Young and the Jobless (what are we to do?0

[rodeodance]

it seems to bet worse and worse. Can this even begin to reverse itself? Or has it gone beyond the point of no return?


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/12/opinion/12herbert.html?th&emc=th

The Young and the Jobless

By BOB HERBERT
American workers, especially younger workers, are stuck in a gloomy employment landscape.

May 12, 2005
The Young and the Jobless
By BOB HERBERT

There were high fives at the White House last week when the latest monthly employment report showed that 274,000 jobs had been created in April, substantially more than experts had predicted.......



........Globalization was supposed to be great for everyone. Nafta was supposed to be a boon. Increased productivity was supposed to be the ultimate tool - the sine qua non - for raising the standard of living for all.

Instead, wealth and power in the United States has become ever more dangerously concentrated, leaving an entire generation of essentially powerless workers largely at the mercy of employers.

A remark by Louis Brandeis comes to mind: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can't have both."

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[liberal N proud]

1. Thing are starting to work for them

They will soon have the American worker where they want them. They can bring back the sweat shops and people will be working for pennies a day just to eat.
The plan to poor down America and turn it into a third world nation.
We can spend our time serving those who have and those who have more.

[unhappycamper]

2. Poverty, hopelessness . . .

This is an explosion waiting to happen.

A Google search using : roots terrorism yields 1,410,000 results. The link below is just one of many.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/roots/

[Upfront]

3. Same Thing Under Ike.

When I got out of high school in 1959 it was the same under the great Ike. If you had a good job you were OK, but if you did not you were screwed. What happened was the country elected Kennedy and it begin to change because of things he did. This country is in worse shape now, but we need to elect Democrats to have any hope.

[Wright Patman]

4. The high teenaged jobless rate

can be explained largely by this sentence:

"Gains among recently arrived immigrants seem to have accounted for the entire net increase in jobs from 2000 through 2004."

Why hire moody adolescents when you've got hungry and scared migrant laborers flooding into the country?