I have recently written a series of columns about jobs with titles such as "An angry dissent," and today's disastrous numbers are a political game changer. All incumbents of both parties are threatened if jobs are not created in large numbers by election day 2012.
This is one of the great outrages in political history. Neither party is now proposing a major jobs program. While the Republican party at the national and state level are doing everything they can to destroy jobs, the Democratic Party is failing to fight for jobs with the intensity that Democrats have historically done. Meanwhile the Democratic president does photo ops, Twitter events, and mini-jobs programs of the magnitude of school uniform trivia.
It is an outrage, a crime, a sin against decency and a defamation against everything I personally believe that nobody, repeat nobody, in the high councils of politics gives a damn about those who have been jobless for 99 weeks. This violates my faith as a Christian, where we are supposed to help those in need. It violates my values as a Democrat, where we are supposed to fight for jobs. It violates the most common sense economics, which proves that help for 99ers provides more stimulus than tax cuts for the wealthy, because the 99ers would have to spend the money to live.
The president's political brain David Plouffe now suggests that voters will not vote based on the jobless rate. This is ridiculous, absurd, delusional and symptomatic of a president far out of touch with the realities of working class Americans and is clueless in confronting Republicans, who believe in firing police, firefighters, teachers and librarians.
The jobless rate is a scandal.
The plight of the 99ers is a moral outrage.
The disastrous jobless numbers today will add to the political earthquake of a nation that demands jobs and is outraged by Washington power brokers who show no signs of caring, understanding or acting.
Shame on the president. Shame on the Republicans. Shame on the Democrats. Shame on the media. Shame on them all.
It is time to cut the crap, create the jobs, and fight like hell for what Americans want: jobs.
I continue my angry dissent today.
The horrendous and disastrous jobs numbers announced this morning are a thunderbolt reminder of the jobless plague that grips our nation.
If the jobs are not created soon there will more incumbents, from both parties, who will join the jobless after the next change election in 2012.
See NUCLEAR THREAT & JOBS at www.aesopinstitute.org to understand why and how.
NASA warns that many millions of us can suffer blackouts lasting for months from geomagnetic storms.
A nuclear plant without grid power for a month can experience a meltdown with a release of radioactivity.
Minimizing the impact requires a mobilization that can change the economic landscape.
Critical Solutions Internatio¬nal, Inc., Carrollton¬, Texas, was awarded on March 16 a $214,284,9¬32 firm-fixed¬-price contract. The award will provide for the procuremen¬t of 118 vehicle mounted mine-detec¬tion MKK II Type II systems. Work will be performed in Gauteng, South Africa, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 16, 2012. One bid was solicited with one bid received. The U.S. Army TACOM LCMC, Warren, Mich., is the contractin¬g activity (W56HZV-08¬-D-0001).
American company gets quarter billion contract and is going to build the trucks in Africa.
A race to the bottom. Sad
No one is even watching the war profiteeri¬ng scandal.
How do people like Mitch McConnell and Michele Bachmann continue to get reelected? Have they been voted out-of-office? How long has Orrin Hatch been in congress? Our country is so fragmented that these want-to-be statesmen and women continue to get elected. While I am hopeful that your prognostication will be true, I have my doubts.
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Good article btw, sheds some light on the truth.
I suggest they also cut the MIC budget, the NASA budget, and all breaks and subsidies given to large corporations. If they do these things, I predict a surplus.