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IMHO, what the US needs is a new Civilian Conservation Corps, which would in effect become the "employer of last resort", and would soak up a lot of the more hopeless long-term unemployed. There are a lot of useful tasks to which they could be put to work, especially including energy conservation retrofits on public buildings and low-income housing. If we are going to throw money at the unemployment problem, this seems to me to be a much more effective use of the funds.
B-b-b-b-but we should all be rushing out to volunteer our time away for free!!!
Obama and a bunch of NFL millionaires even made a TV ad that told me so!
/sarcanol off
I might be influenced by Obama's plea if he hadn't spent trillions in tax money to bailout Wall St. and provide obscene bonuses. Making the plea with a bunch of performance-drug loaded criminals that get paid millions by the NFL, America's Most Socialist institution, made me tune out completely.
Um, George W. Bush committed the US government to that course.
Short memory?
Um, George W. Bush committed the US government to that course.
True, and Obama has done *nothing* to reverse that course since he's been in office. No perp walks for crooked Wall Street CEOs, no bailout claw-backs, no mortgage cram-downs, no real reforms aimed at banskters --just hot air and no substance. In fact, he simply replaced one set of ex-Goldman Sachs executives running the Treasury Dept with another set.
Status quo you can believe in! (and I voted for the bum)
The "elected" government is nothing more than a meat puppet show run by the banking/corporate oligarchy.
They either accept this role and the benefits or they are coerced and if all else fails they are assassinated.
I am well aware of GWBs complicity in our current mess, but the ad did not feature him.
The point that I was trying to make is that Obama's plea rings awfully hollow after the obscene amounts of money he lavished on Wall St.
His plea is rendered even more hollow by the fact the ad also includes millionaires who work for the NFL, the most socialist institution in America, and contribute very little to society other than providing a useful means of social control to society's owners.
The only message I'm taking from this is ad that Wall St. and NFL millionaires are worth every red cent, but we little people should be falling all over ourselves to give our time away when our betters ask us to.