When it comes to the greedies, we've got it all these days--job pigs, war pigs, judicial pigs who are taking our civil liberties. With all the pigging going around--it's rather hard not to get tossed in the mud!
On C-Span's Washington Journal program, Reuters correspondent Pedro da Costa said of current job opportunities in the economy,
"It's thin pickings these days. It's more of a story about which jobs are--shedding, you know which jobs are shedding jobs less quickly than which ones are being created."
Callers on the show clearly sounded stressed out and upset due to the lack of success they experience in their job search endeavor. Among these was an out-of-work construction engineer named John who suggested that America's leaders have thrown in the towel and sold out our country to the detriment of the American worker.
"It seems like we have," John said. "I'm 63, I just turned 63. I'm still fit to work, still willing to work, still want to work, but....infrastructure spending, it seems like is the broadest way to affect all states at the same time. I don't know what value of projects are sitting there on the table ready to go. These may be simple or complex projects that may take a few weeks to several years.If you have some grasp of that I'd like to know and why it is that these objections rise.I know the spending is the key to the objection but you know if this, if we know that 2 Trillion dollars is there, if we are not going to do it, if we are not going to improve ports and airports and other things that the Chinese are doing--they're preparing themselves for the next generation!"
"It seems like there's a sentiment that we've allowed our education to erode, we've been giving A's away to kids for years. It's very discouraging," he added.
Da Acosta was brutally honest about the fact that this man acknowledged as he related his own personal experiences to the caller.
"My parents came here as immigrants in the 1960's and the 1970's and it was the place to be. It was where the jobs were, it was the place to get the best education and everything was state of the art. It was where all of the inventions came from, it was where everything was new and now you go to Europe and they have better trains then we do. You go to China and they have better trains than we do and they have better roads than we do, this is the case even in some countries that are considered poor emerging economies because they're pouring a lot of money into it."
'With this objection to spending--there is some hypocracy there because of course we've done a lot of spending on other things," Acosta added."It's what we're spending the money on because we're spending the money anways."
According to a recent Brown University study, the cumulative cost of the current wars in Iraq in Afghanistan will be between 3.7 and 4.4 trillion dollars.
But that's OK, the pigglies who press the buttons on our economic system are more interested in launching million dollar missiles that kill civilians in Afghanstan and aren't really interested in creating jobs for Americans because they have to feed their continued war fetish at the troph of the American taxpayer.
There are openings in health care--we are all told. Is that it? How many people are going to be overloading these programs if that is the only new sector that experiences growth and how competitive does that make it?
I guess we'll all just be a nation of nurses--everybody just get on board, it's all your fault, you just need to be quiet about the fact that Wall Street pilfered the American people and go get your nursing degree. Never mind the fact that as long as criminals are rewarded for their misdeeds and remain in charge of our ecnomomy(remember the bailouts?) then they are more than likely to repeat the behavior because they have been given a positive incentive to do so. And does this sector really have enough openings to absorb all of these people anyways?
Is this realistic for someone who is in middle to late middle age and how does this affect their retirement? I don't mean to be negative, but I think that Americans are being fed a line by the powers that be about the reality of available options.
(C) 2011 Bill Lewis
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