Big Business Is Hugely Responsible for Unemployment, Why Is Obama Turning to Them for Solutions

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Big Business Is Hugely Responsible for Our Major Unemployment Crisis, So Why Is Obama Turning to Them for Solutions?


As we know, the United States has a giant long-term unemployment problem. Rather than using the full force of the federal government, President Obama is turning to corporate CEOs to solve the problem. Granted, Republicans in Congress have repeatedly rebuffed the long-term jobless, painting them as layabouts who don't want to work, and that's not the president's fault. But is corporate America really ready to help?

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reports that the number of Americans who have not been able to find jobs in six months or more remains at record levels across the country. That is not just a tragedy for them, it's a tragedy for all of us, and a completely unnecessary one.

EPI's research reveals that in 28 states, plus the District of Columbia, more than a third of the unemployed have been without jobs for six months or more. Nearly half of the jobless haven't had work in six months or more in New Jersey (46.6 percent), the District of Columbia (46.6 percent), and Florida (46.2 percent). Check out the interactive map.

The longer you're out of a job, the harder it becomes to land a new one. Companies aren't eager to hire you, assuming that your skills have deterioriated or that there's something wrong with you. Long-term joblessness is agony for anyone, but it's especially tragic to see America's young people descend into mental illness and other health problems because they can't get work. Some of these young people may be scarred for life. Older workers are especially vulnerable, and scientists are finding links between long-term unemployment and diseases like cancer.

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1. Fiscal, trade and monetary policy are responsible for unemployment.

Assuming best possible motives, Obama is trying to recruit business to support solutions to those problems. At worst, he's trying to deflect blame away from governance-by-auction.

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2. "They" have this "Jobless Recovery" scam down pat.

This is their 3rd Go Round,
and they know just what to do:

*Bail Out the Top 1% and protect their assets

*"Get the Economy Going" with tax Breaks for the RICH
and "incentives" to Corporations to "create" jobs

*Stiff Main Street

*Blame it all on the "Free Market"
and a few bad apples (who remain unpunished)
while sending American Jobs Overseas to Slave Labor Countries.

*Force struggling & hungry Workers to compete for the fewer remaining jobs
while lowering wages and benefits. (Benefits? What are those?)

Works every time!
Welcome to the NeoLiberal New Normal!

The Totally Unfair And Bitterly Uneven 'Recovery,' In 12 Charts – HuffPo
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662029

65 percent of working families are living from paycheck to paycheck.
http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/10/why-conservatives-old-divide-and-conquer-strategy-%E2%80%94-setting-working-class-against-the-poor-%E2%80%94-is-backfiring/

Study: "Trade" Deal Would Mean a Pay Cut for 90% of U.S. Workers
http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/09/the-verdict-is-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-a-sweeping-free-trade-deal-under-negotiation-with-11-pacific-rim-coun.html

95 percent of the economy’s gains have gone to the top 1 percent
http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/10/why-conservatives-old-divide-and-conquer-strategy-%E2%80%94-setting-working-class-against-the-poor-%E2%80%94-is-backfiring/

Billionaire wealth doubles since financial crisis
http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/11/12/Billionaire-wealth-doubles-since-financial-crisis/5011384268135/?spt=hts&or=12

The Top .01 Percent Reach New Heights
http://www.demos.org/blog/9/13/13/top-01-percent-reach-new-heights

Rates of unemployment for families earning less than $20,000 - have topped 21 percent
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_JOBS_GAP_RICH_AND_POOR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-09-16-08-11-23

New Rule (Passed by Congress and signed by President Obama) signals Kiss of Death for Pensions
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100694955


Older Workers:.Set Back by Recession, and Shut Out of Rebound
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/booming/for-laid-off-older-workers-age-bias-is-pervasive.html?smid=tw-share&_r=3&

Obama Appoints Bain Capital Consultant Jeff Ziets to Top Post
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662209

Obama selects former Monsanto lobbyist to be his TPP chief agriculture negotiator
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662210

Larry Summers Gets 'Full-Throated Defense' From Obama In Capitol Hill Meeting
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014553343#post1

Wall Street will get away with massive wave of criminality of 2008 - Statute of Limitations
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022516719

Income gap widest ever: 95 Percent of Recovery Income Gains Have Gone to the Top 1 Percent
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/10/one_percent_recovery_95_percent_of

THIS ^ does NOT happen by accident.
It is the result of carefully planned and implemented Economic Policy.
It requires careful preparation, marketing, buying the right politicians, message control, courts packed with Conservative Corporate Rights Judges, and the marginalization and suppression of any opposition.


This time around, we were presented with the most beautifully crafted piece of [font size=3]Political Scamsmanship[/font] I've ever seen.They called it "The Sequester",
and it is working beautifully!

No politician from either Political Party has to face the voters back home and say he voted to CUT the Social Programs the majority of his/her constituents depend upon.
"I didn't cut those programs!
The SEQUESTER cut those programs!"

There is that plausible Deniability again.
Nobody claims they WANTED The Sequester.
America certainly didn't want it,
but HERE it IS!
and Both Parties get to blame the other.
Now that is an awesome piece of Scamsmanship!!!