If you are fed-up with the state of our faltering economy and the lack of concern from President Bush, I encourage you to flood the White House mail with letters of complaints containing the slim want-ads from your niche or profession! (You do not have to send all pages - just a representation of your section with a note pointing out how lean your share of the job market has grown in his care!
Tell him we’re fed up, and it rests on his conscience (and the Republican Congress) to turn this nation around! If a great Democrat like FDR can do it, then certainly Bush can do it, too!
Please mail your letters to:
Mr. George Bush, President*
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
*or current resident!
Do it each week! I’m out to show him and his henchmen what it’s like to be an all-American, red-white-and blue blue blue citizen starving under his “lazy-unfaire”! policies! If we all do this, it will make a statement to bombard him with cries for help from token want-ads across the board in once-thriving professions!
Look, I have all but stopped opening The Pit and Great Debates because they are full of little except all this hateful political crap.
I’ll defend your right to post it to the death. In return, can’t you be a little courteous and keep this stuff in those fora, please?
In my humble opinion, the economy could be a heck of a lot better. And, in my humble opinion, this is my way of suggesting how to send a certain someone a little wake-up call. It’s his call if wants to keep hitting the snooze button, ya know!
Jinx
P.S. Hey, I’m a little tired, too…tired of living off unemployment whenever an elephant runs the political circus!
I’m sorry. I just cannot blame Bush for the current state of our economy. I blame corporations. They’re always looking for the quick buck, and if they can save .05 cents on a stock, they’ll lay off 7,000 workers and employ those overseas. How can Bush, or any president fix this? Some say tax the corporations. How are you going to tax what this country and others were built upon. Free enterprise. And if the corporations see a cheaper route, they’re gonna take it. Even if that means going overseas. You can’t really tax that. Because what if a smaller company was trying to compete with a bigger company but couldn’t because of the tax and couldn’t afford it? Kinda defeats the free enterprise thing.
In this country you can’t find a job.
Without mentioning what you do for a living, you’re just whining. I remember back when Clinton was President, a friend of mine whom is hard-core liberal was celebrating with a party when the Dow first broke 10k. It was some sort of marker to him that everything was going to be OK for the rest of his life. Of course, the Dow fluctuated, began to stabilize, and now being under 11k is a sign that the US is tanking.
When you can’t afford your internet service, let us know. :rolleyes:
Per your linked article, there were 1.27 million new jobs created. The initial analysis shows “just under 3/4s” of these new jobs to be in higher paying sectors. But then they disaggregate the results, it comes to more like 41% of new jobs are actually higher paying. That is roughly 520,000 new, higher paying jobs. Now, to make this information somewhat useful you need to take into account how many higher paying jobs were lost before the current anemic turnaround. I don’t have that number handy, but let’s look at it a different way: over 5% unemployment equates to roughly 5-10 million unemployed. That’s 10 people for every single one of those new, “higher paying” jobs. Assuming a person is qualified, not over a certain age of hireability, in the right geographic location, etc.
It’s not always as simple as you’d like to have it.
