Arianna discussed the U.S.'s economic troubles on ABC's 'This Week With Christiane Amanpour.'
"There is a sense of bit of a Groundhog Day feeling," she said. "The first Friday of each month we get these jobs numbers and really nothing is fundamentally changing."
She also argued that politicians aren't making a strong enough effort to aid job creation.
"The American people sense that there's no real effort or will to create jobs, because there are many ideas out there about how it could be done, but it's not happening."
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At Walmart, Target etc. - baggers are gone, replaced by a rotating bags where cashiers drop them in the plastic bags; thousands of cashiers replaced by self checked out lines convenient to shoppers. One of million examples: Rotissieri chicken sells for $4.98 at Walmart - other chains sell it for $7-10 dollars and Walmart's product is way better. Competing stores will close or lay off. It's inevitable.
Online shopping, banking - more options, rewards on a click of a button, and fast delivery via other carries. owned by foreign countries. USPS will soon be extinct. Bank tellers replaced by ATM; telephone operators replaced by prompts and voice mail.
I work for a huge corporation with 125,000 employees in the US alone. Mail and file clerks are gone. email, e-files are sent directly to our work stations; telephone operators replaced by voice mail and prompts. Over 50 working in the file and mail rooms - there are 4 remaining.
STERM- Science, Technology, Engineering, Research, Medicine/Mathematicsjobs are all captured by China, Japan, India, and all of Asia.
Ground hog self-serving. STERM EDUCATION IS THE GREATEST EQUALIZER.
The problem is no one, OWS or anyone else knows what to do ... because the change has to be so fundamental. Digging up FDR and putting him in the White House would be more effective than any of this nonsense.
Oh, and by the way: Red states take in more welfare than blue states.
I'm a liberal and held a job for my entire life and was never let go...until the Bush policies took effect, that is.
Congresspersons have enriched themselves and seem to have forgotten that they represent many people in their districts/states who are struggling. And pampered politicians spend their time fundraising so they can continue to lead lives of privilege just by staying in office and cozying up to special interests with deep pockets. Enough already - besides higher tax rates for the rich there should be a transaction fee on Wall St. to generate more revenue when it is needed to reduce the deficit and provide jobs.