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Here is some commentary about how "great" our economy is doing. Of course it is all by design.

Our "elected" officials are not working on our behalf but instead on behalf of their filthy rich contributors.

The Labor Department reported that the ratio of job-seekers to jobs available was 3.7 to 1, down somewhat from the 6 to 1 figure during the worst of the slump, but far worse during the present “recovery” than during previous recessions. During the 2001 recession, for example, the highest figure for the job seekers to jobs ratio was 2.9 to 1.

While these figures document the failure of American capitalism to provide work for vast sections of the working class, the political representatives of big business propose nothing to address the crisis. Neither President Obama nor his Republican challenger Mitt Romney have offered any policy for creating jobs, except the inevitable tax cuts for corporations and business.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate adjourned for their five-week-long August recess without any action on the social crisis. And the Federal Reserve Board, the US central bank, has limited its response to providing cheap credit for business to drive up stock prices and profits.

Sometimes I ask why we even have these politicians at all since they don't do anything.
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In this economy, there are many faces of food stamps.
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Forget about the former DNC chair ever coming out in support of public education and public ed teachers.