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Jobs Bill? The Government Passed a Jobs Bill Years Ago ... Just Not for US
A lot of proud American citizens the serfs have complained that the government hasn't passed a meaningful jobs bill.
Sure, unemployment is brutal for most Americans ... and the government is doing everything wrong in terms of reducing unemployment.
But that's a small price to pay ... corporate profits are soaring thanks to record unemployment.
But
more importantly, the truth is that government LONG AGO passed a full
employment act ... but it only applies if you are a big cheese at a too
big to fail bank (see this and this), a giant energy producer (here and here) or a big defense contractor (see this and this).
So stop whining, we've already got a jobs bill ... it's just not for you and me. It's only for the people who count.
And
for the crybabies who think that President Obama is not representing
the wishes of his constituency, the people who put him into office ... you're wrong.
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He is definitly smart ,no question about that, and he was born in US as if that matters anyway at this point. Problem is he plays DC games and does not stand up for principles he ran on. Health care cave in on competetive bidding, deficit compromises, still waging losing wars with another looming, no financial fraud indictments, no jobs since he cowtowes to big biz that outsources en mass, and same old tax loopholes for wealthy, etc, etc. In any case seems he will be re-elected because theres no real alternative platform catching imagination of voter that real change through leadership is possible. We now have economic as well as political stalemate and that aint good for America
The absolute truth is this president said he would bring those jobs off shored back to the US. Again, a promise broken. Anyone who voted for this man has to seriously question why he can't keep even the easiest of promises. Even worse the president was determined to focus all of his energy and political capital on health care when we needed a very serious job's program. My question. How many of you still consider this man to be a smart president?
Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections http://t.co/t23uJ68
I'm with you GW- Barack O has been a HUGE dissapointment
Not to me, Obama has been pretty much exactly what I expected he would be - a politician.
Already there . Next 2-3 years the I- phone will function as TV, computer , Email, GPS, Internet and much more--all on a mobile wireless platform--Android according to Reggie M
I was being sarcastic. George Washington keeps predicting things that ZH readers have known for years. Ha ha get it?
Once again George is correct but tardy. These penetrating insights would have been prescient 10 years ago, right on the money 3 years ago.
Here's a hot insight for your next editorial. Obama has not kept his promises. Also, computers are going to be a big influence on everyday life once they get the size and cost down. Someday computers will be as common as television sets.
Good article. I have been thinking about these issues as well. It looks like the companies keep only top management in the US and the rest of jobs are outsorced. Basically they have found cheaper serfs outside US but as for themselves they want to live here so that they have political stability and an unpredictable government (Chinese, Russian, etc) would not take away all their money. What they miscalculate is that people here also will not be able to tolerate unlimited amounts of misery.
Nothing comes for free. Those companies are finding that the Chinese and Indian workers are stealing all their patents, designs, and trade secrets and there's nothing that can be done about it. What goes around comes around.
The jobs bill is designed to stimulate demand in the US through deficit spending so that Corporations can maximize profits by importing the products from the lowest cost producing labor countries and paying no Federal income taxes on the hedged profits. Best example is GE whose profits are up 77% but pays no taxes. These job bills are designed sole to enrich the wealthest families in the world leaving debt for the masses. And there is nothing anyone can do about it.
College loans nearly a $Trillion surpassing creditcards loans outstanding. Will need a LOT more jobs to have loans repaid---its the next financial bubble. So the question is why are we not creating jobs? Answer is the Global Economic Model with massive job outsourcing at all levels does not permit job creation on a National policy level. To make matters worse political idiology [free enterprise, competition, the Americn way etc.] puts us in denial and we keep increasing deficits, arificially keep interest rates low in belief somehow magical growth will occur. Of coarse growth does occur----Overseas! Keep it up poiticians, bankers and multinationals---soon you will not have a country, just con men and woman with unemployed children
And that $1 Trillion has purchased numerous serfs! I'm so glad I purchased my degree with Credit cards.......at least I was able to send that packing when the first shit-storm occurred. Hey ironically, it was a great move considering they won't hand my wife's 780 credit score free money like they use to!
Tired of the game. My new life goal is not to be a serf. You can take the career and shove it. I am beyond working like a slave for 55 hours a week with a weeks vacation. Huge car premium to sit in traffic......shoved it, got a rocket and ride the line. Slave to the home......no thanks. Once my condo's 15 year mortgage is over, I'm done with mortgages. Tequila and beach over the icrap. Bender with a fishing rod as opposed to big screen and x-box.
Not buying promises either anymore. Volatile 401k's, pension, improbable social security, retirement......at what age? 75? If it requires me to work like a dog until then, PASS. As for the con men and women.......we are there already.
What you guys don't understand is that you will work until you die unless you have children to take care of you. All these pensions, social security and othe rretirement plans won't be around.
that's my plan (working till i die)
Jobs have been saved or created. So what happned to those shovel ready projects again? O I forgot had to say something stupid I guess. College Grads are now working as waiters and waitresses. So much for Hope and change.
It's a teachable moment for those college kids. The few who were lucky enough to get government jobs will have their teachable moment when the world stops buying our debt.
And those without degrees are pushed out of the market by those that have them.
So now you need a $100,000 in student loan debt degree, to qualify for a minimum wage job that has nothing to do with your education.
Life is funny.
Good article GW, I would like to link it to our board to prove a point.
Thanks!
The Bad Guy.
A year ago, just leaving the Bush tax cuts in place was supposed to create 2 million jobs. Where are the US jobs it created?
877-293-1197 - Dell Customer Service
800-336-6675 - JP Morgan Chase: auto loans
866-634-8379 - GE Capital / Amazon credit card
No need for country codes as the 8## will direct you to India automatically.
any more questions?
They're in the same place as all the jobs created by Obama's $800 billion stimulus that was supposed to keep unemployment below 8%
Folks... the Government is the BEST at creating jobs.... they are called civil servants.
We now have double what we need....please no more we can"t afford them.
"...they are called civil servants. We now have double what we need" -flowerguy
Not "double what we need" in all areas. Be more specific. You are over-generalizing.
60% of federal civil servants work for the Pentagon, Homeland Security, or the CIA.
I don't think the CIA has many employees. You must be thinking of the State Department. Alot of employees got lumped in with Homeland security, including border patrol and customs.
You need to be more specific. Include some figures instead of generalizing.
dont forget the light bulbs. instea dof laws statinbg energy efficient light bulbs, we got laws stating GE patent light bulbs.
so if someone invents an even more efficient light bulb?
too bad its not micro flourecent light bulb,. it will be illegal.
oh unless you hand a fuck load of bribes to gov, then maybe your light bulb maybe made LAW.
instead of a 1 off law stating light bulbs must use so may watts to produce so much light.
and let real market forces determin the best product.
this just in: Those fluorescent light bulbs; they're CANCER BOMBS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8462626/Energy-saving-light-bulbs-cont...
off to the shop to exchange my stash for some old fashioned filament lamps now.
you can't tell me they didn't know this. (well... you can tell me actually, but I won't believe it)
These stupid fluorescent lamps contain mercury which is banned from almost everywhere except apparently our houses. Please see this http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/m1599.htm for what it can do to you - these are government data. For example, Health Rating: 4 - Extreme (Life). While in most cases the paranoia that general population has against chemicals is completely unwarranted, in this particular case it is fully justified. See also ths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease. Wile mercury will escape the lamps only if they are broken, the chances of breaking them is actually reasonably large. P.S. I am a chemist and we avoid working with mercury whenever possible.
Yea,mecury is OK for your teeths says the dentists.
Hah another industry that's partially gone the wrong direction. I surprised my dentist (the liberal, good humored type) with scientific reports of the effect of fluoride (the kind they use in dentistry not the kind which goes in your watersupply, which is even worse) on the nervous system. There's only a handful of tests, but these are valid.
The problem is not that secrets are hidden, it's that the adverse effects on our species are accepted because of complacency.
Yea look at Hydrabad India, Fluoride amounts go from good for teeth to poison in very small amounts. How about this:
http://www.10tv.com/live/content/teninvestigates/stories/2008/12/04/stor...
http://www.10tv.com/live/content/teninvestigates/stories/2008/11/19/stor...
And this:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2010/11/04/131079116/dentist
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1379417/Are-seeing-dentist-Poi...
Thats the UK it would never happen in the US
Good information, thanks, I'll run it through the old grey computer here, after easter. ;-)
One of the studies was by a dr. Mullenix. I haven't found a link to the actual publication ATM, though it's on the disk here, but here's a comprehensive presentation: http://www.oldthinkernews.com/?p=280
My mother, bless her soul, never fell for the fluoride pills or other shenannigans they tested on citizens. I guess I owe her even more thanks now.
yep, and now it's clear they ooze crap too, when you turn em on.
our government is still on the path to make these mandatory.
we're talking about a whole industry going in the wrong direction.
FAIL!
Don't forget 15% ethanol fuel, which will ruin most of the cars on the road, forcing us to buy E85 GM models.
I read that two Volts caught fire just this week while charging, burning down the house in both cases.
Thank you for writing this, it just helped me to wake up that I (and perhaps we) have been as pathetic as those waiting for government hand outs. We all know that the governemnt doesnt create much if anything at all, so its long past time we Americans wake up and create jobs for ourselves. If we have business' that are failing then we must reinvent them, yes its simple, easy perhaps not, simple yes. Like the swishey logo company says "Just Do It". and where ever and when ever BUY AMERICAN, BOYCOTT Companies that outsource to foreign nations. ACT LOCALLY or Local wont exist much longer.
Government can create wars and hundreds of thousands of pages of laws and regulations that can land you in prison.
For instance, GE's business model:
1. suck at government teat (defense, wind energy)
2. Move as many jobs offshore as you can
3. Evade taxes
Then the annoited one (may his telepromter glow eternally), in a flash of Messianic wisdom, creates yet another less than useless govt agency (jobs task force) with the CEO of GE at its helm no less.
The only "jobs" Mr "hope and change" created in this manner I suspect are the useless beaurecrats in this task force whose official reports will never ever even hint at the source of rampant unemployment being outsourcing of American jobs by corporations like GE. That would be heresey of the highest order resulting in a loss of a cushy gubbmint job.
...(may his teleprompter glow eternally).... funniest thing I've read in ages. Thanks!
4. Eventually have the US's extraordinary rendition bring back jobs under a less global-friendly US government?
(one can only hope that the effort to move work out of the country is rightfully exhausted quickly enough)
Yup ... that's it
The "jobs bill" is for the ROW and not the middle class here in the US. Unfortunately, the policy enablers are granting off shore jobs in favor of Americans working. How does this work? By allowing easy access to our markets with this off shore work there is no requirement to hire US workers. Also, Obama whether he realizes or not enables this to occur by continuing the unemployment benefits for Americans. Pull the employment benefits and there will by riots and yes there will be the hope and change we thought we were going to get under this president.
TARP was a jobs bill for bankers.
One they didn't have to earn or even work for.
What was it, two pages double spaced and large font?
The real joke was that the entire debacle was initiated up front with the Bush presidency. Oh, it was orchestrated alright. To put it into context, think of a yard light that is motion activated. One can evade it completely if they slow down and move slow enough. Try it.
This scam of lying cheating fuck you in the ass bank bullshit complete with two wars was 8 years of the making. "No one saw it coming," except those of us that bring our own flashlight.
This entire scam was baited to trap and tear the USA into pieces. Fewer rights, more debt gets the rich and corporate nice and wet.
You ain't seen anything yet.
Sun Tzu speaketh the truth.
Mr. Magoo and plenty of Dems got spooked by Paulson's "martial law" theatrics then began running around on TV spouting why they must cave to the mighty banksters.
http://tinyurl.com/3bcn6e5
Bush was complicit for certain, but he wasn't alone.
I think TARP also required the vote of Congress, run by Pelosi and Reid. Bush couldn't spend a dime on TARP without Congress. Anyone who voted for TARP should be tarred and feathered along with the Fed Reserve Board
Then fix it so that such requirement not only exists, it requires that said employment be direct and include the unemployed that have had long terms of unemployment.
We have the people, just more than a few businesses are out of touch with the US. If it takes force to get them to not be out of touch and resistant to hiring US workers, fine. The businesses had every choice to do it voluntarily and consistently have not done so.
See this
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/images/GE.jpg