Posted on 09/04/2009 3:02:42 PM PDT by street_lawyer
Dateline Sep. 4, 2009: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that in August, the number of unemployed persons increased by 466,000 to 14.9 million, and the unemployment rate rose by 0.3 percentage points to 9.7 percent. Bloomberg reports that 5 million have been out of work for more than 6 months, and that the underemployment rate is a record 16.8%. The Labor Bureau reported that 9.1 million workers have had their hours cut and are employed only part-time. 2.3 million unemployed were not counted because they gave up looking for work, and the number of discouraged workers has doubled over the past 12 months.
6,158,000 workers were employed in Construction in Aug 2009; whereas only 707,000 were employed in mining and logging. Oil and gas extraction employed only 164,700. As for the high-tech jobs that were supposed to replace dirty jobs, 1,127,100 were employed out of 300,000,000 who require healthcare. Textile mills employed a meager 122,100 employees; in 1995, 1,600,000 were employed in that industry which was more than the auto and aircraft industries combined.[1] So next time you hear a politician talk about taxing oil and coal, next time you hear them claim that we need green jobs, tell them you want the jobs back that the EPA and the IRS have destroyed.
The U.S. economy has lost 6.5 millions jobs since Obama stepped into the oval office. All those who are unemployed need healthcare, need money for rent or mortgage, and food, so this administration gives them stimulus, but what they really need are jobs. That government can never give. It can only take away, and it has!
There will be kneejerk negative reaction to returning to the spewing of smoke from the stakes of industry, especially from the younger brainwashed generation. Call me crazy, but since we need jobs here, and China is doing all the polluting there, let Americans work in the oil fields of America. Let them once again work in the steel mills of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Youngstown, Ohio, and Garry Indiana, or in the car factories of Detroit, and Lancing. Let them work in the manufacturing plants that once were in Yonkers, New York. Open the doors again of Anaconda Copper Company in Montana, and the coal mines in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania and in West Virginia.
Let the free-market create jobs. “Oakland boomed between 1900 and 1930, nearly quadrupling its population (from 67,000 to 284,000) and adding tens of thousands of jobs to its industrial base.” [2] and it did so without a stimulus package from Washington D.C. Capitalism has not failed; it was neutered by the well meaning, and by the socialists. We have not had a free market since FDR. America does not need more new deals. America needs more economic freedom.
Sounds good to me....if what is meant to allow pollution again in order to have jobs again....
And the title is right - starvation is going to be knocking at the door of many in this country if the “Green Czar” and his cohorts have their way in an increasing manner.
The only “green jobs” out there are government funded ones.
Let’s start framing EVERY bit of discussion out there with how it will help the private sector create jobs again!!! Not how it will end the mythical global warming...THAT will connect with more and more Americans as the commies in power work to end jobs with every iota of ther green (communist) agenda going into play.
We can no longer afford to even give lip service to job killing enviromental agenda.
Call it that.....the job killing environmentalists....every time the world environment is discussed.
This is pretty much what I have been trying to do. For many years I have been involved in watching industry being forced out of business by Federal, State, and Local Governments. Of course the worse state and local governments are those in liberal states like New Jersey, New York, and California, just to name the obvious few. At least if we can shut down the Fed gov, factories can move to a different state instead of a different country.
Republicans in Congress and in every State legislature and state house need to be doing just that - we must work to bring JOBS back to this country.....whatever that takes!
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