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SoCalDem

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42. Amazing, isn't it?

Fri May 17, 2013, 04:55 AM

May 2013

When I was young, we did not have hoards of naked, shoeless, people wandering about.

We made (in the USA) enough sheets, towels, shoes, clothes, toys, tvs, washers, dryers, cars, tires...you name it..we made it..

We managed just fine, making stuff that our workers were paid to make, transport, & sell to all the other workers in other fields.

The extra we sold abroad.

People had pensions
People had savings
People dis not have credit card/college debt.

What changed?

We were sold out by people we elected to work FOR us.

They took our money and worked AGAINST us, and for their own little closed society

and they used media (and our complacency) to convince us that this was good for us..

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Jim Hightower: Chilling Reality--America's Worsening Jobs Crisis [View all] eridani May 2013 OP

Every time I see an article trumpeting economic recovery chervilant May 2013 #1

k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth May 2013 #2

kr HiPointDem May 2013 #3

And again: Hoover policies beget Hoover result. MannyGoldstein May 2013 #4

Well, as much as we may like Michelle Obama... ananda May 2013 #8

And where's our Frances Perkins? Henry Wallace? MannyGoldstein May 2013 #10

Henry Wallace? He was red baited and then ignored. What a better country, potentially, if FDR byeya May 2013 #25

But Wallace was in FDR's cabinet from the start MannyGoldstein May 2013 #30

And he did do a lot of good. I would have liked to see him given the chance to continue. byeya May 2013 #33

Ain't Beyonce and Jay-Z ENOUGH?! WinkyDink May 2013 #14

+1 L0oniX May 2013 #29

102 million people are Not working. fasttense May 2013 #5

How many of that 102 million are under 18, or even 15? SheilaT May 2013 #11

The numbers are working age newmember May 2013 #16

The OP says more than a third of our *working age* population. n/t winter is coming May 2013 #17

105 million is about a third of our current population. SheilaT May 2013 #36

whatever the number is, it is TOO MANY Skittles May 2013 #37

That number includes retirees, children, people that are not in the labor force. Ikonoklast May 2013 #24

well, wall st has recovered its losses, and after all, isn't that what's really important? KG May 2013 #6

Thanks to the U.S. taxpayer. Octafish May 2013 #20

SO much for their hyped form of 'capitalism' Rex May 2013 #23

They've socialized the risk and privatized the reward. Octafish May 2013 #35

So true! Rex May 2013 #38

We don't have a jobs crisis, we have a stupidity crisis - give people money! reformist2 May 2013 #7

It used to be said that in the USA the only thing rationed is money. byeya May 2013 #26

I don't disagree with the OP, but it'd be nice to know how they calculated the figures. n/t magellan May 2013 #9

You know what the future is for jobs in this country? it won't be manufacturing newmember May 2013 #12

I dont' think it's as bad as Jim says, but we're getting there. mountain grammy May 2013 #13

You don't think JH did his HOMEWORK ON THIS TOPIC?? Personal anecdotes aren't refutation. WinkyDink May 2013 #15

I know that, and I know Jim does his homework. I'm not refuting Jim Hightower mountain grammy May 2013 #19

One thing the above posts bring out is the gray economy or the off-the-books economy byeya May 2013 #27

The statistics I cited are from the Household survey Yo_Mama May 2013 #34

This person is obviously not on board with the things are going great story. Safetykitten May 2013 #18

No, "the things are going great story" is, of course, a lie. mountain grammy May 2013 #21

K&R Find & vote for new candidates that support sensible economic policy. Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #22

The lack of perspective makes this more like a RW hit piece bhikkhu May 2013 #28

No, it's real Yo_Mama May 2013 #32

Kicking for truthiness Yo_Mama May 2013 #31

The elimination of jobs is how the corporations reduce the power of the middle class. AdHocSolver May 2013 #39

This should be an OP n/t eridani May 2013 #40

Amazing, isn't it? SoCalDem May 2013 #42

One of my son's friends quit a $16.00 hr job to valet park cars in Vegas SoCalDem May 2013 #41