How the Powerful Think About Unemployment

As the campaign season gears up, expect to hear a lot about unemployment - but don't expect the numbers to go down. As George Carlin would say, "The owners of the country don't want that."

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News & Politics

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• povertly
• level
• health
• care
• dependence
• underemployed
• jobs
• program
• Obama
• Congress
• Democrat
• Republican
• 2012
• election

[truthforamerica]

All of you idiots that voted for Obama should have been smarter. Now this country is going down the tubes.......

[FeelFreeToArgue]

@truthforamerica I honestly think it makes very little difference who won the last election. We might've had another war, maybe be paying a few less taxes - but then again, I'm not sure. What do you think McCain would've done differently? I'm honestly curious what you think the substantive changes would've been.

[PleaseStayTuned]

Totally understand where you are coming from. I feel like it has finally boiled down to one real issue, whether WE make changes or not, THEY will never do it for us and never have. Robert Gates illustrated the admin's thought train when he gleefully stated a couple years ago that "with the unemployment rate so high they are not having trouble filling the military". Sometime unscripted bits sneak through the muck of propaganda.

Good to see you again.

[FeelFreeToArgue]

@PleaseStayTuned I think if you watch what is unfolding in Egypt, you'll see how hard it is to wrest power from the hands of the people who really wield it, as opposed to the figureheads they tolerate, like Mubarek (or Obama.) The Egyptian government wants to return to business as usual, which means picking up, one by one, the tools of the previous admin. There is a second revolution coming, if the Egyptians have the stomach for it. If not, back to oppression.

[mejt223]

Zack has one of the greatest minds on YouTube.

[FeelFreeToArgue]

@mejt223 blushes...intelligently

[AnonRevolution1]

My post-Obama cognitive dissonance has morphed into chronic apathy. OWS generates an iota of hope though, on occasion. Good to see you back.

[LawyerInternet]

@FeelFreeToArgue Since, we are (free) to argue here, I feel that you are completely wrong. "liberalism" is harmful to the fabric of society, Communism dictatorship is necessity, and I should mention, that resistance is futile, equality is Communism.

[truthforamerica]

@FeelFreeToArgue I actually agree with you there. I held my nose and only voted for McCain because he was better than Obama. However, McCain wouldn't have systematically tried to destroy the private sector and grow the government to the monstrosity it is now. Obama is the worst thing that has ever happened to this country. He is an inexperienced community organizer who doesn't have a clue what he is doing. Bumbling from one thing to the next.

[funkalunatic]

Yeah I think you're pretty much right - that lurking in the back of the minds of those who hire lobbyists is the notion that they can't do business if labor isn't utterly dependent and compliant. Economically, it's unreasonable paranoia, and I think may indicate an even deeper insecurity, maybe a fear or losing control, or something similar that's present in the kind of person naturally selected/groomed for business leadership.

[SiriusLupis]

I've been feeling quite the same way. I haven't been on YouTube hardly at all since June, partly because of work, but I've also been consciously and unconsciously trying not to think about politics. It's just too depressing. The Occupy Wall street Protests almost make me want to let go of my pessimism but I live in a place where the most popular radio station plays new country hits between nuggets of enlightenment from Mike Huckabee.

[paddedshell]

that beard won't work on your "Letter of Appreciation from the Rich" remake! still, it's quite distinctively you ;)

[LouieDaProtectionist]

the beard looks good on you

[TheAist]

good seeing you again, man! you always make great videos. rockin that beard to...wowzers, it has been a while! looks righteous!

[PleaseStayTuned]

@FeelFreeToArgue Doesn't that apply to any system? Of course it is not easy to get freedoms back from a corrupt state. A system by the people,any people, and any system, has to be maintained by the people or it becomes corrupted. That has happened pretty much world wide. Most revolutions only bring down the figureheads not the power structure, even if it did it takes constant vigilance by the people or it sinks back to a corrupted state.

[55ella2007k]

Glad to see you back - and yes, of course, this is basic stuff. High unemployment benefits the upper percentile, because in this way, they can pit workers against each other. People will put up with anything, if they can only stay alive. This scheme will only work for so long though, until people start to revolt. It hasn't reached that level here yet, but it will, eventually. And yes, you are correct about the co-option of movements...back into the power structure.