FDR said "Work was a Right "and now, instead, we have game shows of who is canned next!

[KoKo]

"Do We Need Another WPA?"

by New Deal and Bonddad

Submitted by Robert Oak on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 11:20.

http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content/do-we-need-another-wpa

Wow. This is a dramatic and great idea and even though it's from the New Deal, this is quite out of the box as a proposal!

I believe that the entire U.S. economy will never recover, we've gone past the edge on the middle class squeeze to the point it's bringing down the entire Macroeconomic economy.

What I see happening is the U.S. simply refuses to deal with what globalization is doing to the United States. There is no way American workers can compete with wages that are at 100:1, 10:1, even 3:1 ratios to U.S. wages and there is no way that will level until the United States PPP and standard of living goes to a 3rd world country.

Somehow I don't think that's what America is supposed to be about.

So, not only do they need a jobs program, tied to citizenship, to U.S. workers, to people of this nation, almost as a national union....but they need to modify a host of policies from corporate international tax codes to trade to employment law and put U.S. labor first.

FDR said work was a right and now that entire value is gone. Instead we have game shows as drama of who will be canned next.

The entire middle aged class is now double whammied. Through age discrimination, labor arbitrate their income is greatly reduced. Then they have no retirement. Old pensions were replaced with 401ks which have gotten wiped out through the stock market bubbles and busts and they also have had to raid them for health care costs, living expenses, being out of work.

So, we need a major paradigm shift in this nation and we need this age group especially to get their careers back.

This continual retraining, reeducation bullshit is just that. These people have college degrees, advanced degrees, years of experience, skills abounding and the reason they are in this boat is the obsession from multinational corporations to thrash their workforce and labor arbitrage people.

Folks, this really is a dramatic policy call and at minimum one that wakes up the brain and puts the focus squarely where it needs to happen, the U.S. labor force. So, please cite it on other sites in comments, rate it up on sharing sites, send it around to your friends. I think NDD and Bonddad are really onto something with this policy suggestion

Read whole article here.........

http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content/do-we-need-another-wpa

[burning rain]

1. Books could be written about how....

Americans have largely lost the capacity for dealing with their economic (especially) difficulties by showing empathy for and solidarity with each other, and have instead turned to schadenfreude as a coping mechanism, as witness the rise of "who gets canned next?" shows and the witless pasttime of guffawing over other folks' "FAIL." In other words, having given up on trying to improve their own circumstances, many now revel in the misfortunes of others (the "logic" being something like, "I'm a wretch, but at least they're not happy either."). I can't say such people really deserve a better life, but it's still a crime for the plutocrats to grind them down.

[EPIC1934]

2. good points mad above

True but it is also because any leader who will spread ideas of economic populism is no longer allowed on the national stage. They will be eliminated now by incredibly biased media in the Corporate Election Primaries, THEN by assassination.

If there was such a leader who had the same access to the national airwaves etc, and the people still rejected that leader then you can generalize. but this hasnt beent the case since the government shot RFK and MLK in the head in 1968. Since then a Democrat hasnt said anyting while the Republicans lie. In fact Clinton Incorporated made sold the Republican ideology to the Democrats. NO one else has been allowed into NOvember elections.

Dean was killed by the Corporate Media btw. december 27 2003 (WHEN HE WAS LEADING 44% TO 12% OVER MR. "I WOULD HAVE INVADED IRAQ EVEN HAD I KNOWN THERE WERE NO WMDS) AND FEB 3RD OR WHENEVER IOWA WAS EARLY IN FEB. WHEN DEAN LOST.

FAKE CORPORATE ELECTIONS. THATS WHAT THEY ARE . CALL THEM THAT OR THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE, ALTHOUGH YOU CAN RELAX WHILE CNN CALLLS YOU A MODERATE FOR ACCEPTING THIER RIGGED GAME

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Which is exactly what happened to Kucinich and Edwards. Ignored and then marginalized by the

Corporate Owned Media and in Edwards' case, politically assassinated, forever. x(