The Two Roads Out of Recession

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Two-Roads-Out-of-Reces-by-shamus-cooke-110213-441.html

Recent events in Washington, D.C. should provoke fear and outrage in the average American worker. As the jobs recession staggers on, politicians and labor leaders alike seem bizarrely distanced from reality, unable to advance any ideas that remotely correspond to the basic demands of those tens of millions of unemployed, under-employed, or poorly paid workers.

Instead, what we get is President Obama's recent groveling to the corporate-dominated Chamber of Commerce, pleading with them to hire workers. The President's recent speech to the Chamber implied many dangers, which neither labor federation-- AFL-CIO and Change to Win -- bothered to point out. In fact, the AFL-CIO applauded sections of the speech, rather than condemning its sinister motives. If labor unions align themselves with the President's and the Chamber's pro-corporate path out of the recession, a workers' road to recovery will be bypassed.

What is the corporate route out of recession? Economist Robert Reich explains:

" has a deep, abiding belief in cutting taxes on the wealthy, eroding regulations that constrain Wall Street, cutting back on rules that promote worker health and safety, getting rid of the minimum wage... fighting unions, cutting back Medicare and Social Security, reducing or eliminating corporate taxes, and, in general, taking the nation back to the days before the New Deal." (February 8, 2011).

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[jaxx]

1. Unrec

What a crock.

[RC]

3. Care to elaborate?

[jaxx]

5. Take your pick.

provoke fear and outrage
bizarrely distanced from reality
President Obama's recent groveling
sinister motives

These are the words of a hit piece. It offers nothing but over the top criticism. Which, in my opinion, is what it was meant to do.

[MadHound]

2. Hopefully a wake up call,

Especially for those who aren't blind, yet still can't see.

[Little Star]

4. Good article! k&r

[LiberalEsto]

6. k&r

[cbdo2007]

7. We are currently recovering from the recession.

So why are we supposed to be fearful and outraged?

[tavalon]

8. By we, do you mean Wall Street?

Do you mean the corporations? Because Main Street isn't.

[daa]

9. That was a joke right? Where are the JOBS???????

[cbdo2007]

11. The jobs are the last part to recover.

I'm not sure why we have to explain this over and over and over and over and over again in here, but jobs are the LAST part of a recovery. After a business gets the rest of it's finances sound to protect against this happening again and catching them off guard. They have to catch up to where they were before, sack some money away for the future, and then they can start investing in growth again.

This is how it always works and always will work. Once the jobs are gone we won't be "recovering" we will have already "recovered".

[daa]

12. We haven't had jobs the last TWO recoveries nt

[Coyote_Bandit]

10. I'm pretty sure

that nobody at the top of our industries, markets or our political and government power structures really gives a damn about me and my circumstances - or those of millions more like me.

AMong other things, these leaders have shown that they do not care whether folks earn a living wage from full days of hard and stressful work - nor do they care whether folks are able to secure care for their physical well-being and survival. They may lie and say they care but when it comes time to act their actions suggest otherwise. Seems some are more equal than others.

While there may be differences among those at the top of the heap there are also a lot of commonalities. They are going to look out for themselves - and each other - in order to preserve their position of power, prosperity and influence.

While I might hope that they would consider my needs and interests I know that I was sold out long ago. Their loyalties are not to this nation or its people.