Hightower - DEALING WITH JOBLESSNESS BY CAUSING MORE OF IT

[Donnachaidh]

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It took him some 80 years, but he has now made what looks to be a full comeback to power.

He is Herbert Hoover. With the Great Depression spreading misery across America, President Hoover's prescription was to insist on reducing the size and spending of governments in order to boost "business confidence." Hovernomics was a disaster for our country, and it was not good for him – he lost the presidency in 1932 to FDR.

So here we are in a new century with widespread relentless unemployment, mass underemployment, stagnant wages, a rapidly falling middle class, and dimming economic prospects even for college-educated young Americans. In the face of this destabilizing, inegalitarian pressure on our economy and society, what remedy are America's corporate and political leaders demanding? Hoovernomics.

Not a single jobs bill is in the Congressional hopper. Despite rhetoric about a new green economy, the White House has offered no job creation plans at all. Instead, Washington's entire energy is going down the Hoover-hole of restoring business confidence. The deficit is the devil, cry the New Hooverites, as they wildly slash spending and try to kill federal programs like Head Start that lift people up.

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[OHdem10]

1. The States are laying off people in large numbers, especially

States with Republican Governors and Legislatures.

It is beginning to look eerily, like the GOP are intentionally
bringing the Public Sector down to match the Private Sector.

Get both groups down to lowest salaries possible then Companies
will hire here instead of China. "Competitiveness" .

[Donnachaidh]

3. hasn't the Alec group been working to take us down for 3 decades?

This is a long-term, large scale attack on the middle class and poor. No one needs to make tinfoil hat comments anymore -- it's REAL.

[ThomCat]

2. Government is taking a lot of actions that will result in MORE unemployment though.

By slashing programs, more people will be out of work.

By pushing more costs down to the state, and making the states slash more costs in order to stay solvent, more people will be out of work.

By pursuing more free trade agreements, more people will be out of work.

Didn't Obama claim not so long ago that creating jobs needed to be government's big priority? So why isn't he doing anything to propose jobs bills? Why isn't he spending government money to help people who need jobs?

Why is all the government money being spent only on wars and corporate give-a-ways? When will government start helping the people who need it, instead of the wealthy who don't?