How’s That “Change” Working Out For You?

Who dreams up the glowing economic numbers and why do we let them get away with it?

Who dreams up the glowing economic numbers and why do we let them get away with it?

President Barack Obama today continued his commitment to improving employment among veterans by introducing an initiative to hire them as the country’s first responders.

Economic analyst Harry Dent’s 2009 book, titled “The Great Depression Ahead” became a national bestseller. He predicted the current crisis and worse ahead.

While members of the military make up a tiny fraction of the U.S. population, the unemployment rate for America’s military veterans far exceeds the national average.

In 1962, Michael Harrington’s “The Other America” exposed the nation’s dark side, saying:
“In morality and in justice, every citizen should be committed to abolishing the other America, for it is intolerable that the richest nation in human history should allow such needless suffering.”

Last winter’s epic battle between Wisconsin public workers and Republican Governor Walker ended badly for social justice. Nonetheless, struggling for it continues.

On Friday, S & P cut credit ratings for nine EU countries, including France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Malta, Slovenia, Slovakia and Cyprus. It was old news but not good.

I was sent an email by a veteran who had lost his job last summer, and has been searching hard for a place to find work.

From inception, the euro system was doomed to fail. In the 1990s, Progressive Radio News Hour regular Bob Chapman predicted it.

At a time of open-checkbook military spending, multiple imperial wars, Wall Street bailouts, handouts to other corporate favorites, transferring unprecedented wealth to America’s rich, and preserving their tax cuts and other benefits for more, austerity is impoverishing millions, destroying their futures, and wrecking America’s Postal Service (USPS).

Corporate greed and profits over people priorities launched nationwide OWS protests in hundreds of US cities for change.

Millions of Americans now endure protracted Depression conditions at a time half the population is either poor or low income. Long-term unemployment is unprecedented, and federal aid is being cut, not increased.

“The entire financial system is collapsing. Look what’s going on in China. All of the empty buildings. Look at the home sales and real estate market. They’re in steep decline now.”

Sunday marked the final troop withdrawal from Iraq which means that in the coming weeks and months U.S. soldiers will be returning home and many of them will be looking for work in the private sector.

Europe’s underpinnings can only hold so long. Years of entrapment under euro straightjacket rules means eventual dissolution and collapse.

Bankers Life is reaching out to our Military Veterans community and is ready to hire right now! They have joined with HireVeterans.com, America’s premier job board to hire America’s best.

Who is responsible for the success of the American Dream?

Like earlier summits, they met. They talked. They agreed to talk more and solved nothing. Once again Europe laid an egg.

The economy doesn’t help the warrior’s transitioning challenge

by Mike Stathis It took quite a long time for Washington to finally concede something that was apparent; the nation’s excessively high unemployment rate would remain elevated for several years. But their admission has come with a twist. Instead of pointing to the true reason for this demoralizing reality, establishment economists have offered some [...]

Romney puts US Top Trading Partners in the NOT IMPORTANT file in favor of Israel hurting the prospects for bringing jobs into the USA.

ABC News quoted an unnamed White House spokesperson, saying the November jobs report provides “further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal.”

Europe and America perhaps face their gravest ever economic crisis. Growing millions are impoverished, unemployed, and out of luck.

So, most of the drop is due not to the imaginary job creators of Republcian lore, l legend and myth, but due to people giving up after months of trying, running out of unemployment benefits and falling off the grid and under the bus.

On November 30, the Fed, ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Bank of Canada and Swiss National Bank acted together to cut the rate on dollar liquidity swap arrangements by 50 basis points. Markets surged. Irrationally trumped reason.

Moody’s says Eurozone crisis conditions place all member state credit ratings at risk.

The next step in the Occupy Wall Street movement, after establishing its presence and credibility, is to fully expose the enemy, the global financial elite, as well as their ongoing global financial demolition plans which will eventually lead to a New World Order ~ unless the people reclaim their power as they did in Iceland.

The operative word is contagion. It’s malignant and spreading because it’s unresolved and irresponsibly addressed.

President Barack Obama delivered a clear message today when he signed two new tax credits into law to increase the hiring of military veterans and wounded warriors.