Posted on 11/09/2013 8:52:30 PM PST by annalex
Dear Friend of CV,
720,000.
That's how many people last month gave up.
They've stopped looking for jobs.
The Labor Department today reported that participation in the labor force is at a 35-year low.
Obama's economic policies aren't working. And that means millions of Americans aren't working either.
That 720,000 people gave up looking for a job last month is a crushing indictment of President Obama's indifference to the working-class and low-income Americans. Millions of American families are feeling the squeeze from Obama's failed economic policies and have given up trying to find a job.
And there's more.
Today's devastating jobs report comes on the heels of a report issued Wednesday by the Census Department. That agency said the nation's poor had been underestimated by about 3 million, meaning that the true number of Americans living in poverty was actually 49.5 million.
With nearly 50 million Americans in poverty, Barack Obama has become the Poverty President.
After five years, it is clear that Obama has no credible economic plan and nothing to offer America’s most vulnerable other than more of the same.
The swelling number of unemployed has not only resulted in protracted economic hardship for many American families, but it's also brought immeasurable suffering to people who feel robbed of the dignity that comes from work.
Pope Francis recently said that honest work was essential to a person's dignity. That's why unemployment should never be thought only as a number. We're talking about real people, neighbors, friends and their families – struggling under today's economic policies. Every minute of inaction and gridlock from Washington only causes more pain.
Visiting the Italian island of Sardinia in late September, Pope Francis spoke to 20,000 workers who had recently lost their jobs. He said: “It's easy for a priest to come and tell the poor to have courage,” said the Holy Father. But he assured those present he really meant it, and called for dignified work for all.
“Where there is no work” said Pope Francis “there is no dignity.”
For a record number of Americans, there is simply no work, and therefore no dignity. For the sake of our fellow citizens, it’s time we face reality and demand real change.
Brian
The Europeans are right? More immigration is good? The Democrats are correct?
Etc. Etc.???
Heck, isn’t a Pope statement at all is it.
The next-to-last paragraph reads:
“Where there is no work” said Pope Francis “there is no dignity.”
>> Pope Francis recently said that honest work was essential to a person’s dignity. That’s why unemployment should never be thought only as a number.
Exactly, it’s fugacious! It’s the “employment” numbers that matter!
>> “Where there is no work” said Pope Francis “there is no dignity.”
That is a truth.
Ping!
How do they know 720,000 gave up looking for jobs? I believe when people retire the labor department counts them in these stats.
When infants are legally killed in the womb at such a grand rate (and their mothers damaged by their gross error of same), how can we expect anything good to take an upward turn or even stay stable? It is impossible imo. Pray for the end of abortion. Visit an Adoration chapel today! God Bless Pope Francis!
Immigration of laborers, of course, is what is driving the unemployment up for American workers. Exportation of the industrial base is another culprit.
I don’t know how it is counted, but 720 000 is not retirement. These are people not longer registering as unemployed because they stopped looking for employment, even though they would work in a healthier economy.
I agree that legalization of abortion continues to have an adverse economic effect, as well as a horrible moral effect. Besides, one guilty of unconfessed abortion has her dignity damaged beyond repair, whether she is working or not.
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