Thread: Dude, Where’s My Job? Real Unemployment Exceeds 20%

You might ask yourself, if corporations are doing so well how come real unemployment exceeds 20%?

Dude, Where’s My Job?

29th December 2010
91 Comments

The storyline being sold to the American public by the White House and the corporate mainstream media is that the economy is growing, jobs are being created, corporations are generating record profits, consumers are spending and all will be well in 2011. The 2% payroll tax cut, stolen from future generations to be spent in 2011, will jumpstart a sound economic recovery. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

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It was another wise old man named Ben Franklin who captured the essence of what those in control are peddling:

[b][i]“Half a truth is often a great lie.â€

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

You might ask yourself, if corporations are doing so well how come real unemployment exceeds 20%?

Dude, Where’s My Job?

29th December 2010
91 Comments

The storyline being sold to the American public by the White House and the corporate mainstream media is that the economy is growing, jobs are being created, corporations are generating record profits, consumers are spending and all will be well in 2011.

Hysterically, the four fastest growing job categories according to the BLS are:

1.Administrative and support services
2.Food services and drinking places
3.Couriers and messengers
4.Performing arts and spectator sports

The well paying goods producing jobs are never coming back.

The wealth of the country has been pillaged by an elite group at the very top of the economic food chain, who were able to reap the rewards of globalization (outsourcing American jobs), manipulate the debt based financial system through synthetic fraud products, and avoid taxes by hiring thousands of lawyers, accountants and tax consultants.

This is what got the Demos clobbered in the Congressional elections. And 'Bama went to Asia, to try to get more free trade agreements. Yikes.

Re the well paying jobs not coming back, China is using currency manipulation, tariffs, and support for what used to be called "infant industries", to develop their economy. No reason why we can't do the same things - we used to.
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Noone even knows what the real unemployment should be. We have an entire society based on living off the government off of welfare and handout programs who don't want to work simply because the government pays better.

One of the problems the article brushed against is we have middle class americans in production jobs, that just isn't right. Production jobs are the bottom of the ladder and its uneconomical to have the middle class working the bottom of the ladder as it makes goods to expensive. In production and factory jobs historically its always been the lower class or the poor doing those jobs. Working at minimum wage having 2-3 in a family working to support the family in one house. Its how we built our industry and production jobs before. However since the massive growth of welfare we have taken away those potential employee's to work those jobs. Thus companies have been forced to hire middle class people who demand higher benefits and higher pay.

This has made it so business's couldn't even compete on an international level with steady declines on a national level with the "free trade" agreements with countries that basically allow forms of slave labor. Companies were in a tight spot in part because of this and insane healthcare insurance costs for these employee's and families that they were basically forced if they wanted to compete to move elsewhere.

Moving overseas not only reversed their decline in business with only a small percentage overseas but also raised profit margins as their products could again be lower and competitive while also making a bigger profit margin on each product. It only made sense to move the majority of these jobs overseas to increase business revenues and allow these companies to compete internationally. Only problem is the only Americans left in the company are at the top of the pyramid which means very few American jobs.

To correct this issue they need to do away with welfare and stop handout programs to get that class back to the lower class work force. They also need to severely diminish healthcare costs along with potentially allowing these manufacturing jobs to only provide workers comp and possibly employee only healthcare vs the entire family.

How this was possible years ago were bigger families and not everyone being an individual. One would have a family home with more at home working to support a bigger agenda. However now everyone wants to have their own place to live vs sharing a house or staying with mom and dad longer or simply sharing a house or place with co-workers or friends.

Its all the land of entitlement that has doomed us. Not just SS, medicare, and welfare type entitlements but the belief soon as you turn 18 you have the right to a new car, a new house, a nice apartment, a big screen TV, and every other "cool" thing. The American Dream was the potential with hard work to achieve some and rarely all of those things throughout ones life. However current entitlement beliefs have twisted that to the American Dream meaning you are owed it and should get it right away.

In the old days couples saved for 5-10 years together before buying their first house. Some even 20 years. However now how many new college grads do we see trying to buy their own house in 2 years after finishing school while they still have student loans?

How this was possible years ago were bigger families and not everyone being an individual. One would have a family home with more at home working to support a bigger agenda. However now everyone wants to have their own place to live vs sharing a house or staying with mom and dad longer or simply sharing a house or place with co-workers or friends.

Years ago it was possible because CEOs did not pocket all of the money and just throw peanuts to their employees. Employees were treated like part of the company and many times worked their for life. And, btw, families did not all live together. Co-workers did not share housing. Are you kidding me? People bought their own homes. This is the propaganda that corporate execs want us to believe. That we should lower our standard of living so they can continue to pocket all the wealth. And, btw, families fifty years ago generally had ONE WORKER per household. Dad supported the household and mom took care of the household. And they had enough to build something over time. Why was this possible? Because corporate execs were satisfied with one mansion and now they need ten. That is why it was possible then and not now. Corporate greed. The same greed that send jobs overseas. The same greed that brought us illegals. The same greed that depressed wages. Same greed that caused the housing collapse.

In the old days couples saved for 5-10 years together before buying their first house. Some even 20 years. However now how many new college grads do we see trying to buy their own house in 2 years after finishing school while they still have student loans?

This is just simply not true. No one saved for years and years before buying their first house. They got married and got a loan and paid the payments for thirty years. Saving for 20 years for a house? Where are you getting this? People were almost finished paying for the house in 20 years.