Removing Jobs as #1

[autorank]

It's all about the jobs. Nothing gets taken care of until we put 12-15 million able bodied,
hard working citizens back to work in decent jobs.

This is short and sweet. Send it to your state and federal representatives as a reminder or
call them. It's time this is issue #1.

Removing Jobs as Job #1
Economic Populist
By Robert Oak

Have you noticed despite the never ending jobs crisis, Jobs are removed from the political dialog? The unemployed are no longer mentioned? Or if they are, we get absurd nonsense policy that will actually do the opposite? Ship more jobs overseas and lose jobs?

No net new jobs since 2000, adjusting for population growth

While a WPA is a worthy goal, and the public works from the Great Depression are proof positive it works, we need more than that. We need to make things again and structure the economy, in particular reform trade to be Buy American and Hire America. to get the economy of scale required to put America back on the right course.

http://economicpopulist.org/content/removing-jobs-job-1

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1. K&R nt

[autorank]

8. Ola!

:kick:

[xchrom]

2. 'No net new jobs since 2000, adjusting for population growth'?!?! nt

[autorank]

9. The numbers don't lie...

If we ran a company and the sales force produced no net new revenue in 10 years, well, we'd be broke.

Time for truth.

[blindpig]

3. Auto, if I send this to my reps....

the response will be that we need to cut taxes. And you well know that if Captitol retreats from it's global posture it will revert to the national, and we know how that resolved itself last time....

[autorank]

10. Capital is not the capital;)

[Angry Dragon]

4. You have to create jobs that pay a living wage and not just

create minimum wage jobs

[autorank]

11. I hear you. Here's a solution.

The American Society of Civil Engineers did an infrastructure report card. We need
$2.2 Trillion in repairs just to keep up. That would create well paying jobs and
I'll bet we could sell some bonds attached to real labor and tangible outcomes, e.g.,
bridges, roads, etc.

Here's the report card http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/

We can do this, real soon.

[Hannah Bell]

5. kr

[Starry Messenger]

6. k&r

[autorank]

13. Kick

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Mikey! Some folks don't agree with us, bud!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1208773

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1203545

[autorank]

12. So, what else is new?

Yeah, you have some detractors too. But it's real. Just ask the 15 million or so who will work
but can't.

:hi:

[nashville_brook]

14. k and r

[Samantha]

15. The higher unemployment is during 2012 the better for the Republican win

So they think .... Just remember Mitch McConnell saying what their number one priority is: making Barack Obama a one-term president. Facilitating that goal is current unemployment. Despite the fact Republicans ran on "jobs, jobs, jobs" once again they spoke out of both sides of their mouths. Their putrid rhetoric threatening to block the lifting of the debt ceiling, something which has been approved 74 times previously, increases domestic and international lack of confidence in the United States Government's financial stability.

If a terrorist voices a threat to crash the U.S. economy, that is regarded as the same as an act of war. It is exactly what bin Laden strove to do. On the domestic front, the Republicans give voice to threats that imply the catastrophic results from not lifting the debt ceiling are not a concern, but rather perhaps a force of political will to accomplish a means to an end. If in the process more people lose their jobs, more people lose their homes, and the U.S. creditworthiness sinks in the process, oh, well ... so say they.

In my humble opinion, I see no difference in what bin Laden threatened to do to the U.S. economy and what Republicans infer they will do by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. I cannot understand why this type of rhetoric is allowed when it is in fact dangerous. To try to justify the Republicans' maneuvering in the name of politics does not play. Some things must be above politics, and the health and stability of our tenuous recovery is definitely one of those things.

Jobs, jobs, jobs? Not if the Republicans have their way because that would only facilitate Barack Obama winning re-election for a second term.

Another thing I don't understand is why this very point is not being raised on a national level and the Republicans put to shame for their disastrous posturing.

[socialist_n_TN]

17. Bin Laden DID eventually collapse the economy

in collusion with the OUTRIGHT fascist party.

NATIONALIZE IT ALL! Fuck this shit, I'm SO ready to go Bolshevik on their asses.

[Samantha]

18. You are a socialist living in Tennessee - how do you do it?

I am from Tennessee. I am simply a liberal. I am so uncomfortable with the politicians who represent the State, who chronically misrepresent the facts in a deliberate attempt to get the voters there to support efforts which work against their own best interests, I know I could never live there again. It is tough for me to visit because all my relatives have become so ulta-conservative. How do you manage to keep your political sanity?

[leftstreet]

16. K&R