Toon: This is how the Rich view unemployed people

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[lunatica]

1. Exactly, but when the people get pitchforks their toon changes

And history will repeat itself yet again.

[FormerDittoHead]

2. "toon" - Was that a joke? Because it's pretty good. n/t

[lunatica]

6. Yes. It was deliberate

Thanks for noticing.

[nxylas]

10. More a statement of fact, to my mind

The predator class just love high unemployment. It makes the workforce more "flexible" (their euphemism).

[Love Bug]

3. Back in the 90s when unemployment was low

and even McDonalds was begging for help, I wondered what "they" would do to turn things around. After all, because of supply and demand, workers were being paid more because of the shortage and they had more choices for jobs. Then "they" discovered outsourcing to other countries and a decade or so later, not only have we fallen back to pre-Clinton-area levels, it's gotten worse.

Who'da thunk, eh?

:sarcasm:

[lunatica]

7. When we're willing to get less pay than third world countries the jobs will all come back

Don't worry.

[RKP5637]

8. Yep, and get your tent now, ahead of the rush. Many will be back in tent cities the

way this mess is headed.

[alfredo]

12. It's not just pay, they want an end to all New Deal reforms.

[soryang]

4. Thanks to these "lazy" people, we get to keep our tax cuts

Isn't the "efficient market" grand?

:sarcasm:

[L0oniX]

11. +1

[guruoo]

5. Their way to reintroduce a "kinder, gentler" version of slavery to America nt.

[RKP5637]

9. I heard someone saying similar just recently that most Americans will

live in financial servitude their entire lives. The highly monied in this country know "exactly" what they are doing. Their goal is to bring the American wage down to the lowest common denominator across the world and to basically have the indebted employees of decades ago working 7 days a week for hours per day in shit jobs for measly wages. Damn I wish most Americans were not so slow to get what is going on.

[guruoo]

15. This is exactly what I've been preaching to the teabaggers I know. nt

[RKP5637]

16. Yep, the teabaggers have been duped, used and manipulated to do the bidding of

the extremely wealthy and they just don't get it ... keep up the good work of trying to enlighten them as to what is "really" going on ...

[Lorien]

13. They already have that: a for profit prison system. nt

[Scruffy1]

14. I sometimes think my whole life has been spent in

a for profit prison system except I get furloughed at night to do my housework so I can work another day to make someone else have an easier life than mine.

[Hydra]

17. Basically

Think of it as a tiered system. Those of us outside the walls are given a little extra freedom in return for good behavior. We can always be put inside the walls and have a little less, so it keeps most people "scared straight."

Be a little better slave, and you might get a few extra freedoms. Maybe not though- there's no guarantee.

See? we have social mobility! Things can always get worse, but you can always dream that you'll get out of the trap.

[lovelyrita]

18. Very true. The company I work for is growing.

Our sales are up and we are breaking records over previous years. Not one person that I interact with (any non-sales person), has had a review or increase in at least a year. I have not had an increase since 2008. People are pissed but the job market is so terrible in Central Florida that finding new jobs would be very difficult.

[RegieRocker]

19. Not only that they also

are able to get people to work for nothing. Using their money and resources to provide the corporation revenue.