Archive for the ‘jobs’ tag
Immy Humes, director of “F**KED: The United States of Unemployment”
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Interview with Immy Humes, director of ”F**KED: The United States of Unemployment,” the new Salon series that explores the lives of the 99ers. Humes discusses the epidemic of long-term unemployment and why it’s essential to not forget the millions of jobless Americans.
Jamie mocks McDonald’s, Allison discusses Adbusters’ latest call for 50,000 people to Occupy Chicago in May for the G8, and Mayor Emanuel’s authoritarian ordinances.
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9/11 reflections, Jamie’s wisdom tooth adventure
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Citizen Radio reflects on 9/11, Jamie’s wisdom tooth adventure, Obama’s jobs speech, and answers some mail about guns.
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Bank of America is evil, S. Dakota tries to legalize killing abortion doctors, Politico calls Egyptian revolution boring
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Jamie shares his saga of leaving Bank of America (which you all should do,) followed by a discussion of community banking. Find a community bank near you: http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/find-a-bank.
South Dakota is attempting to legalize killing abortion doctors, Politico calls the Egyptian revolution boring, more on the global revolutions, including Iran’s, and John Boehner says if GOP budget cuts kill jobs, “so be it.”
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The end is nigh…unless it's not
The hysterical debt Armageddonists have been screaming about the need to adopt all sorts of insane austerity policies because if we don’t, China is going to invade and enslave our children…or something. This irrational frenzy is, of course, bipartisan. Both sides of the aisle, for example, recently voted against extending unemployment benefits.
Tea Party sweetheart, Sharron Angle, specifically said citizens are “spoiled” by jobless benefits, and the US should cut unemployment benefits in order to motivate people to find work. Because – as we all know – unemployed people are just too lazy to toil, and there are millions of jobs in some secret industry sector only teabaggers know about, waiting for capable employees to fill them.
No matter how loudly Krugman tries to tell these idiots that cuts are the very worst possible thing they could do right now — what does he know? He only won a Nobel Prize in economics – Republicans refuse to listen. Actually, the world doesn’t seem to be listening, either.
