The War on Everybody Not Rich Continues

Those who are forced out of work now face the bleak prospect of having their jobless benefits reduced.

Remember, these "bums" can always go out there and get a job--any job--even when there are not enough jobs for everyone who is unemployed.

And our "Democratic" president refuses to do anything about it.

The portion of working-age people who are employed is 58.5 percent, the lowest level since 1983. This means that the transformative effect of women entering the labor force over the past two-and-a-half decades has been fully counterbalanced by the disastrous rise in unemployment. The employment-population ratio for men is at its lowest level in records dating back 40 years, and no doubt longer.

In another period, such conditions would have been treated as a national scandal, and the political establishment would have felt some obligation to take government action. On January 11, 1944, as the United States was wrapping up the war in Europe, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave an address to Congress, in which he proclaimed that the political rights guaranteed in the American Constitution had proved inadequate, requiring an “economic bill of rights.”

Not now, this jobs crisis was deliberately created in order to create downward pressure on existing jobs and benefits.

And THEN, if you find yourself jobless, safety net programs are also being cut to the bone.

What a goddamned fucked up country this has turned out to be.