Dark days for the Unemployed

(9 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

There’s nothing like having a good job.

So WHY is Corporate America so keen on giving those good jobs to someone other than Americans?

The Geography Of A Recession 2007-2009



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Of course, the answer to that WHY — is to increase their bottom lines, whatever it may cost their country in the long run.

It’s just Business, right?

If Congress would get the Guts to TAX the Out-Sourcing, and

start giving TAX Breaks to Companies who IN-Source Americans —

well maybe we can start reversing this Dark, Disturbing Trend:



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TO SEE this Dark Trend to Hopelessness, currently happening in a neighborhood near you!

Geography of a Recession – Animation — Just Click Play

Many thanks to Latoya Egwuekwe, for making the boring stats,

Jump to Life, in that animation.

The Decline: The Geography of a Recession

In middle class prose on November 2, 2009

by latoya egwuekwe

According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 31 million people currently unemployed – that’s including those involuntarily working part time and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. “The Decline: The Geography of a Recession” is a vivid representation of just how much. It’s an interactive map I created as a graduate student at American University. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 – approximately one year before the start of the recession – to the most recent unemployment data available today.

http://latoyaegwuekwe.wordpres…

Here’s another take on the subject

funny how the moral to the story is always the same

The Geography of a Recession



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Americans are hurting.

Our Economy need serious attention,

and maybe even some new Wizards behind the Curtain?

“There’s no place like home”

except for maybe, that place of …  having a Good Job?

and a hopeful future …

also posted on dkos

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    • jamess on December 3, 2009 at 05:22
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    to a service worker

    near you.

  1. …no place to hide!

  2. I get my computer fixed or get a new one, but: the local paper today had a headline that the county unemployment rate is at about 8% & I think they said we shed 8100 jobs since last year.

    Personally, I think our economy is roughly equivalent to what it was in about 1931: only we no longer have a strong manufacturing base.

    Here’s the thing: tariffs to support local industry have been one key to economic strength since George Washington took office.  It wasn’t until Reagan and his “service economy” mantra that that began to change.  Imposing tariffs on Chinese tires is a start…but it’s only a baby step.  We need to see a lot more tariffs on all imported goods to regain the playing field (& sorry for the mixed metaphor).

    IMHO, of course.

    • Inky99 on December 3, 2009 at 09:32

    And I’m one of them.

    • banger on December 3, 2009 at 17:12

    We are easily fooled by appeals to nationalism that are made by the oligarchy to keep the ignorant masses stupid and supporting “our troops”. Actually those troops are imperial troops and the Empire is a global not an American empire.

    The elites have no alleigance to country or culture only each other and power/money. The idea that we are living in a global empire doesn’t seem to occur to most leftists in America.  

    It’s the Empire stupid. They don’t give a fuck if you’re and “American” — they may have 50 years ago but it’s a different world now.  

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