primitives discuss the 0bonomy

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Oh my.

kentuck  (1000+ posts)        Fri Apr-03-09 10:17 AM
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...............and the jobs keep vanishing rapidly.

How long can this continue? Americans lost another 663,000 jobs this past month. This problem is already at the critical stage. Where do the new jobs come from? Even customer service jobs are consolidating their jobs to more centralized locations. With much of our manufacturing base now moved out of country, what can we expect these new unemployed to do? How do they live?

NightWatcher  (1000+ posts)        Fri Apr-03-09 10:19 AM
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1. but the Dow went up yesterday, we're all gonna be saved
 
Some industries are hiring: Suicide prevention hotlines, home cleaning/foreclosure services....

Oregone (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-03-09 10:21 AM
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2. "the depression is over" - Jim Cramer

leftofthedial  (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-03-09 10:21 AM
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3. Quick! Give the banks another couple of trillion bucks! 

And someone throw a virgin into a volcano fercrisakes!

Double T  (1000+ posts)        Fri Apr-03-09 10:27 AM
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4. Not to worry, Jim Cramer of cnbc told US that the 'depression' ended yesterday.

Next month the 663,000 jobs lost this month will be revised upward to over 700,000 jobs lost for March 2009. The depression has only begun. As long as wall street, corporate america and our government continue to move jobs to slave wage countries, there will be no recovery; things will continue to become horribly worse. Let the happy talk and the irrational delusion continue; one day we will wake up and our country's economy will have totally collapsed. Mad Max america is just around the corner.

nancyr (1000+ posts)     Fri Apr-03-09 10:33 AM
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6. It has already collapsed....

some people just don't quite realize it yet.

Double T  (1000+ posts)        Fri Apr-03-09 10:49 AM
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7. We haven't even begun to see collapse; food riots and mob rule cometh.

OHdem10 (1000+ posts)       Fri Apr-03-09 10:33 AM
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5. Keep in mind and never forget. The Banking Crisis has not caused all these job losses. Globalization is responsible for much of what is taking place with unemployment. In Globalization the salaries in all countries must be harmonized.

American Salaries are being harmonized DOWNWARD in order to level the playing field.

Actually, Globalization has failed. It was the so called intention of "Free Traders" that other developing countries would harmonize their salaries upward.

Remember the grand promise of Nafta. Things got screwed up.

Most of those jobs we sent to Mexico got sucked right out and sent to China(even cheaper labor).Mexico has been in a "great depression" ever since. During the campaign the candidates even admitted Trade Policy has not worked out as planned.

At some point, our leaders are going to have to admit our country has changed. Yes, the Banking Crisis was the catalyist to bring the job loss. We will be losing jobs long after the Banking Crisis has been fixed.

When people get jobs, these jobs will be at much lower salaries.

C......N......C (411 posts)        Fri Apr-03-09 10:55 AM
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8. There are more and more effects coming. I have friends in business that have both pagers and cell phones, they are dropping their pagers. We had a land line phone number for 17 years, we had to drop that and just use cell phones. We need the cell phones for business.

Towlie (515 posts)        Fri Apr-03-09 10:58 AM
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9. Pagers? You're kidding! I haven't seen one of those since the 1900's.

Winterblues  (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-03-09 11:02 AM
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10. Two million jobs in three months

Maybe we should give the Billionaires some more money so they can hire more people...That is what Republicans are proposing anyway..

Oh my again.

I thought 0bumble was going to take care of all of this, and he's had more than enough time.

After all, it didn't take Christ 70 days to feed the multitudes with two fish and six loaves.

One wonders what's up with that.

[Lord Undies]

What's up is the DUmmies are trying to reconcile their past support of all things anti-American with their desire not to give up living in the American design.  It's a tough bit of accounting. 

As we in accounting know, when you are faced with something that doesn't fit in any account or column, you turn the page and start a new account.  The DUmmies are finding themselves on the last page of the ledger book.  There isn't another page to turn.

It's very painful for the DUmmies.  They will not give up their mindset, for it would be like losing an arm, but lo and behold, somethings got to give.  They are running out of dastardly villains to blame who aren't themselves.

[BannedFromDU]

What's up is the DUmmies are trying to reconcile their past support of all things anti-American with their desire not to give up living in the American design.  It's a tough bit of accounting. 

     That is some heavy thinking. I'd ^10 you if I could.

[delilahmused]

Okay but I'm getting kind of confused about this "globalization" thing. I thought we wanted one big, happy socialist planet? I thought our allegiance was supposed to be with the holy trinity of the 0bamassiah, the UN, and the European Union? I'm kinda confused about where it's okay to have autonomy and where it's not. I guess I'm not nuanced enough.

Cindie

[Servonaut]

I don't know about any depression. I do know that almost all of the flights
I work are booked to capacity.  Even the overseas ones.