Thread: Why Are 15 Million Americans Unemployed When 8.3 Million Ill

Why Are 15 Million Americans Unemployed When 8.3 Million Illegals Have Jobs? Immigration Moratorium Now!
By Brenda Walker

President Obama still plans an amnesty in the near, though unspecific, future, according to threats continuing to burble out of the White House.

That’s despite record unemployment and widespread misery throughout the land.

Obama's Treason Lobby supporters nag him constantly that he promised to reward illegal alien lawbreakers. So there's no danger he will be allowed to forget.

We have become so desensitized to Washington's daily cruelty to average Americans that the systematic displacement of citizens in the workplace is accepted as the norm. Plus, not only is the White House guaranteeing to reward millions of aliens for violating U.S. sovereignty, but legal immigration on auto-pilot continues to dump 125,000 new workers per month into America's already flooded labor market.

In boom times, captains of industry demanded additional foreign workers and got them. But now, when 15 million Americans are jobless, there is no corresponding reduction.

Why is that? Is there no OFF switch anywhere in Washington? An immigration moratorium, a time-out , would be sensible public policy and would relieve a lot of pain among citizens.

But there is no such legislation in Congress.

Has America drifted into an alternative universe where evil rules? Perhaps traditional citizens have been a little late in finding their voice in townhalls and tea parties.

Interestingly, President Obama understands something of the principle of supply and demand regarding employment—as he demonstrated in his CNN interview broadcast September 20:

"I think we'll be adding jobs, but you need 150,000 additional jobs each month just to keep pace with a growing population," the president said. "So if we're only adding 50,000 jobs, that's a great reversal from losing 700,000 jobs [a month] early this year—but, you know, it means that we've still got a ways to go." [Obama: Economy probably won't produce enough jobs until 2010]

Among Americans, the economy is the top concern. An August Gallup poll found that 31 percent of workers personally feared losing their job, a new high and double the rate of a year ago. A Harris Poll taken in early September noted that 60 percent of Americans polled gave the President a negative rating on handling the economy.

Yet Washington and the elite media are stuck on healthcare. It’s certainly important and needs fixing. But unemployment is worsening (now at 9.7 percent nationally), and badly so in many regions and job sectors.

In August, 42 states lost jobs (an increase of 29 states from July) with a nationwide total of 216,000 persons laid off.

The average time which people remain unemployed has lengthened to 25 weeks, the longest since the end of WWII, and 5 million Americans have been jobless for more than six months.

The numbers are worse for black Americans, where 15.1 percent of those over 16 are jobless.

An article last spring examined A Job Crisis for Young Black Men:

"The relative size of this loss in employment among black men was the highest in any of the 11 post-World War II recessions in the United States. It is ironic that at the same time that the nation was electing its first African-American president, it was displacing record numbers of black men from the ranks of the employed.

Similar to the case for male workers generally, the employment declines among black men have been concentrated among the youngest workers (ages 16-24), among those with limited formal schooling, and among blue-collar workers. The lack of adequate employment opportunities among these young black men contributes to a lack of hope and an increase in despair, which often leads to rising delinquency, crime, and incarceration. In recent months, only one in six black teen males has worked, and only 52 percent of 20- to 24-year-old black men held any type of job. Another new record employment low is being established for these young men. "

(by Ron Marlow and Andrew Sum, Boston Globe, April 22, 2009).

The U.S. teen jobless rate recently reached 25.5 percent. Young people as a whole have suffered from displacement, as reported by McClatchy in June, Older workers muscling out teens for summer jobs:

"Last year, only 32.7 percent of U.S. teens ages 16 through 19 held summer jobs, the lowest level since the government started tracking the data in 1948, said Andrew Sum, the director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University.

“With jobs still scarce, the teen employment rate probably will hit a new low of about 30 percent this summer, Sum said."

“That figure doesn't include some 400,000 to 500,000 low-income teens who are expected to get summer jobs thanks to $1.2 billion in stimulus funds for youth job programs.

“However, Sum said that these jobs—some of which will go to adults ages 20 to 24—will boost teen summer-employment rates only by another 1 to 1.5 percent, which, if accurate, would still be a 61-year low.â€

WHY THE HELL are we still giving out ANY work visas with an unemployment rate even over 5% ?

Oh yeah thats right. Our greedy corporate slave masters would still rather can all Americans and import cheap labor....