Rigged Republican Crisis Basically Over, Now, Where are the Jobs and or Jobs bills? Or even a

[louslobbs]

conversation about jobs and job creation? How about it alleged leaders, where is the wall to wall news coverage about people in need of jobs and the suffering that families are going through because they can't find work and all of their benefit have been exhausted? Where are the JOBS? The investment banks were helped, wall street was helped, the automotive industry was helped, the rich got their continued tax cuts, so they were as usual, helped. Where's the help for main street and the poor? All we seem to get are cuts, cuts and more cuts to benefits. Why is everyone in government and in their corporate owned media talking about everything and anything other than jobs? Why not just tell us the truth in words, your actions are speaking loud and clear.....you don't give a flying fuck if those who have no jobs get them or not!..............you don't need their votes anymore, do you. As long as this government is owned and run by the corporations, the days of what we the people need are over.........why don't you just say it, most of us already know it.
Lou

[Kalidurga]

1. Psst

I think we both know that they never intended to create jobs or even a climate favorable to creating jobs.

[louslobbs]

5. I know, but I did have this great fantasy in my head about a government of all the people finally

coming true and that we would all be represented fairly so that everyone could find a good job with benefits and pay for their basic needs. Then I woke up.
Lou

[KansDem]

2. Hey, c'mon! Congress went on a five-week vacation! Debt-ceiling raising is exhaustive work!

They'll get to it...eventually

[louslobbs]

6. Only five weeks? Creating and acting out the debt ceiling debacle is worth at least 8 weeks

vacation don't you think?
Lou

[MineralMan]

3. Well, since Congress is on vacation for 5 weeks, I don't believe

there's going to be much going on with jobs bills. They don't seem inclined to work on that even when they are in session, and you can bet they won't even be thinking about it while they're gone. One strategy is to show up wherever a Congress member or Senator is making a public appearance and ask them loudly about it. Right now, that's about the only way we're going to get in touch with them.

But nothing's going to happen until September, if then

[louslobbs]

7. Thanks MineralMan, I just can't help thinking about how insidious all of this is. It feels like a

really bad nightmare and I have been waiting for someone to wake me up. Thanks
LOu

[county worker]

4. We just set up a super congress who's job is to cut spending and lower taxes.

And you don't have a say in what they do and their recommendations are not negotiable.

Jobs? forgetaboutit

[louslobbs]

8. LOL a super congress, so the regular congress failed and now they set up a super congress under I

don't know who's constitution to secretly make policy that will probably be worse than the sausage making we just got through watching. Gangs of six.....12.....4 and twenty blackbirds.........super congresses.....what a fucked up government this country has cultivated.......what's next 3 grey geese in the green grass grazing or three sticks of bitter butter in the bitter butter batter.........or a tutor tuting his flute?
Lou

[county worker]

10. "Eye of newt, and toe of frog,

Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."

[louslobbs]

12. Sounds like something Endora might say on Bewitched, but then again, the government that now exists

couldn't do any worse. I'd vote for what you wrote over that turd debt ceiling piece of shit.
Lou

[Newest Reality]

9. Some are investng their hopes and futures

on the underlying notion of profit as global competition. That is in the process of collapsing and major resource issues are looming behind the facade.

The only way that Americans can play the Ponzi game of Global Competition is for our playing field here to be leveled, and we are seeing that happen right before our eyes as we expect to go back to something called growth and development when that is not at all the corporatist plan or the basis of the political ideology in force.

Competition on the world market implies that we work here for wages that mean poverty in relation to the cost of living. That is why we would benefit from waking up and seeing that this mess is a call to a different kind of action and a reason to question what we have believed and why -- especially when the issue is our livelihood and quality of life, both short and long-term.

Localization, new forms of community-based, ethical business modes, and a hybrid combination of technology and simplicity with concern for impact on the sustainability and viability of our environment are now on the table and in experimental stages. Not everyone everywhere will be able to start pioneering a TRUE, grassroots transition, but my bets are on that ticket out of service to a profit-based, vampire system where our blood is food for the wealthy winners and, soon to be declared owners, of everything.

[BadgerKid]

11. But think of the outsourcees!!! n/t