Posted on 05/07/2010 4:11:50 PM PDT by Christian Cage
In an article titled “Meet the Unemployable Man,” the Wall Street Journal paints a dismal picture of the future for men in America, particularly those without college degrees. Lawrence Summers, Obama’s economic advisor, is quoted in the article saying:
A good guess…is that when the economy recovers five years from now, one in six men who are 25 to 54 will not be working
So it looks as though the future is bleak for men, and there won’t be much of a recovery at all if America’s top economist knows what he’s talking about. For the poorly educated men who do get work, it will likely be low wage, but they may be lucky — for those who have been out of work long-term, chances that they will ever work again drop precipitously.
The article, written by David Wessel, actually seems to hint that it would be morally wrong to do nothing about the current crisis — a consideration that has not entered the public conscience for a long time in regards to men:
Sidelining a huge part of an entire generation of men would waste human potential, create economic misery for their families and fuel political discontent.
Could it be that people are beginning to feel that abuse and neglect of men is in itself morally objectionable? We can only hope so. I don’t think such a sentiment has existed in America since the Great Depression, when depictions of men as human beings in works of art such as The Grapes of Wrath spurred action to alleviate the miserable lot of so many men.
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What is true, is that establishment has to be replaced with proper conservatives, not weak-kneed moderates like Bob Bennett, who prostrate themselves over the alter of political correctness.
Republicans AWOL, my *ss. Democrats and the Obamamedia make sure they aren’t heard though.
And, Democrats caused the problems.
Oh, to be young again. /s
Every leftist and populist right or left says capitalism is broken and crashing and a failure. In fact it continues to run the world.
Every peacenik and isolationist and foreign tinput dictator says American power is over and the US doesn't have the stomach to fight and should try and can't afford it. In fact the US military continues to rule the world.
Everyone says the west is dying. In fact it continues to run the world.
Everywhere, every human institution that is vibrant and creative and successful, that makes all the value and justice anyone alive has ever experienced, is slandered and ridiculed and impugned, occasionally invited to partake of the pathetic status of a helpless victim (as here). But it is all nonsense.
Hysterical ingraditude is rampant.
And intelligent brave principled western men, continue to rule the frickin world. And we ain't going anywhere.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. God how I wish these idiots would shut up.
Summers, et al, in the Obama administration are betting on this.
The public school system is clearly failing males. Start there.
So, basically, Western society will morph into one that resembles sub-saharan Africa.
Hmmm -- 16+% static unemployment for prime-age workers -- in "good" times...
What about "bad" times?
Umm...sorry, but decades of crippling anti-industrial government policies such as ever increasing and expensive CAFE standards, Co2 emissions nonsense, minimum wage increases that end up denying a lot of young men from gaining work experience, along with ridiculous union contracts have priced the US out of manufacturing, and resulted in the absence of a lot of jobs that young men could be working in.
Our national acceptance of utopian liberal premises about education, economics, environmentalism, job creation is coming back to bite us.
That's because they're not Barrie's prime constituency.
Obama’s prime constituency is women, they voted for him 70-29 in the 2008 elections. They viewed as a celebrity, not a fuddy-duddy politician.
Not sure about the basic premise of this assertion. What about all the illegals that were doing unskilled work? If there’s little no demand for unskilled work, why were they doing so well for so long? Most of them had grade-school educations and didn’t speak decent English.
They won't ignore us after Nov 2, 2010.
It'll be headlines everywhere. We'll vote, nearly en masse, to throw the liberals out.
We'll be the most feared voting bloc in the US.
45% of votes cast this fall will be by White Men, and we'll vote 90% GOP...at least, that's MY prediction.
We're the best at everything that counts...including murderous war.
The left will continue to push until that lesson must be re-learned by them.
I just want a job, that’s all. Is that too much to ask? I’m really tired of being out of work.
‘Worker drone’ or not, it’s my choice whether or not to get drunk. Pay me, I’ll work hard go home, rinse repeat. Maybe someday I’ll be able to afford to get married. :(
Yep, I think Obama has cured most of the white folks who voted for him out of a “noble” desire to play a part in a “historic event”. He’s also cured those who fell for his post-racial-rhetoric ruse. Fool me once, shame on you...
Lifting one finger is all it takes to dismiss them completely.
Sounds like our model countries in EUROPE!
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