Ed Schultz: Americans Being Displaced by Corporate Greed

Where are the jobs? This is the question that millions of Americans are asking today. Corporate profits are once again soaring, but hiring remains at a near all-time low. Ed Schultz is fired up about the fact that Congress is doing very little to help average Americans who want to work but can't.

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• Ed Schultz
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• Jobless
• Unemployment
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• Harry Reid
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[MarmaladeINFP]

I always find it odd that rich people love the idea of killing people in foreign countries but they hate the idea of spending the same money on helping people in America. Do the poor, unemployed, and homeless Americans feel safer because our troops are killing innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq? Do the working class and other average Americans feel safer knowing their children are dying in pointless wars that profit the rich?

[EziekielNightwind]

Where are the jobs?

China and India. You all voted conservative, and your jobs were exported for profit. Deal with your mistakes.

[hjtjl]

Every bullets spent on Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq could have gave people food every day. Every shells fired by tanks could have been money for the rents and real estate taxes. Every Missiles and bombs spent in war could have provided people with roofs over their heads and food on a plate every day.

[Chan107]

@Chan107 Just an average of 220 bucks after taxes and insurance working a typical 48 to 55 hr work week. I work 13hrs straight with one half hr brake on Mondays and Thursday. Some jobs I could not do due to the lack of tools. Told my boss this and he said if you don't come to work with the proper tools and be prepared. Then you wont get work, period.

[Chan107]

@Chan107 He also made me clock out while still working and some days I could not get a brake. I had to eat lunch while I worked. I was HATED by my co-workers for "taking gravy work" away from them. Not only that I had to buy MY OWN TOOLS. I asked my boss for a raise for all of the money I made him. He said NO. I asked until he put me on flat rate commission work. He was a smart ass. The hourly pay and commission pay came out to be the same amount I get weekly.

[randallpaulcom]

@randallpaulcom So we look at U.S companies who manufacture in China who once manufactured here & who once employed many before the bean counters came in. Collectively we create a boycott strategy letting companies know that they will be on a boycott list for 6 months. The list will be long but boots will shake when they realise that they are next in line for a consumer shut out. That's how you protest by way of the wallet. Money speaks louder than words folks & that is their only understanding

[randallpaulcom]

First off we need to get entrepreneurial again. We used to be looked up to for our products around the world. Many relied on corporate employment who fleeced the nation to enable and empowered them to out source overseas. So you want jobs! Forget it! It doesn't go with the bottom line folks but they still want you to consume their products you once made. It will backfire because you can;t have a nation of consumers with our producers. A Selective Boycott strategy is the only answer.

[TheMaddog780]

its non partisan problem.. democrats are just as at fault

[tommyg524]

bilderberg.

[rich2rock]

People that have been sitting on the couch drinking all day long have achieved as much as any of these people now haven't they!? Shouldn't that be telling you something??? Why bother, huh?