1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed that is Freakin 50%

[RainDog]

19. this is the condition that has created revolution, now and in history

French Revolution - educated class of lawyers, etc. who were financially hit by an aristocracy that refused to raise taxes to cover the national debt b/c of stupid war expenses and their own privileges. A rigid religious/political alliance justified every bad thing done and made money off the misery of its people.

Middle East now - educated young people who are oppressed by rigid religious/political alliances that make money off the misery of its people.

honestly, our current govt seems so incapable of solving the problems we have, because they don't like the solutions - I wouldn't be surprised one bit to see some major shit go down -

-esp. since the Republican legislature now wants to double the interest rates on college loans and has spent their time writing legislation meant to harm younger women who need health care, even when jobs that pay living wages aren't there.

the middle class has been hurt by 30 years of anti-labor, anti-worker policies that are the legacy of economic conservatism on both sides of the aisle.

if the Democrats don't recognize what is happening, they will be dismissed along with Republicans.

there are always bad things that happen to good people when societies become so unstable because of the corruption and greed of the ruling elite. the ruling elite, ultimately, are to blame.

if the aristocrats in France had had even the most simple grace to recognize the misery they were creating, they wouldn't have been murdered en masse. But they didn't, so they were. The French Revolution is a cautionary tale for the ruling elite in any nation that they should all learn from, but they rarely do.

FDR learned from it - he saw that the reforms he enacted staved off outright revolution here. that was a different time - the socialist movement had more teeth, but with our current problems, a similar movement, based on students and recent grads, rather than labor, has the capacity to organize much more quickly - and many of them have in the Occupy movement.

take heed, democrats.