Job Killers

There are two of you that hit the problem right on the head. People! Read comments made by Twinhit and Logicbot both posted on 2/4/09 to get a grasp on our main economic problems. One by logicbot touch base on the unfair trade balances that have existed since the 70's and have basicaly been allowed to go on till the present. We need to level the playing field before we compete on a global scale again. The comments of Twinhit is more to the current situation we all find ourselves in. He talks about the political singleminded greed and corruption of our government who play to the interest of the wealthy and powerful and big corporation by letting them go unchecked in their dealings with the public. Enron should have been a wake up call. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac who gave them the go ahead to be stupid? There go the housing and the banks. Before we had the government regulating our main manufacturing plants with agencies such as EPA, OSHA. Now we have a new president that wants to punish the very people that are trying to keep our country strong by taxing them to defeat. The business owners (they make over $250K a year) who keep us working!
People We need to adopt Reagan's principles again but on a grander scale. Instead of less government, how about no government. We voted them in we can vote them out. Lets start over again with a new democracy. Their are some very smart and honest people out there that will do what it takes to get this country turned around again and not take years to do it. Some one suggested instead of just throwing peoples tax dollars at it, to stimulate the economy lets have a tax break of 30 to 60 days where no employment tax was taken out of paychecks, so forth and so on. That would stimulate the economy the people them selves. Pretty smart guy there. What we are trying to say is Government is whats making it too hard to get back on track. This problem we are having now took 30 years to make but took the recent trend to start the decline downward.

This is so incredibly frustrating for hard working people who are just trying to sort out the next steps in their careers. As a career coach, I am continually perplexed by the lack of good career building resources. The best internet destination I've found is Career Connection Network (http://www.careerconnectionnetwork.com), but it is a brand new site, just trying to get off the ground, which takes capital. Workers unite! We don't have to wait for the government to save us. Each of us can make a difference in this economy right now, by looking for ways to help someone in our network. Leverage your LinkedIn page, your FaceBook page, your Twitter postings, to create social capital to create economic momentum. Join a new network; write a blog; share a job lead. A little push from all of us can get this vehicle moving again.

Layoff, in its truest sense of the word, is the temporary furloughing of workers with the very real intention of calling them back to work at some point. Today's "layoffs" are a euphemism for mass firings.

Layoff, in its truest sense, refers to a process of furloughing workers with the very real intention of recalling them to work at some point. Today's layoffs are mass firing events

To be perfectly honest, I think that the current economic crisis is the product of the whims of those behind closed doors.
It is intentional. The real culprits are sinfully wealthy and powerful phantoms pulling the strings.
Ross Perot talked about that "Giant Sucking Sound" and everybody laughed.
I never understood the concept of willfully competing against yourself and lowering the odds of your sucess by shooting yourself in the foot.
IMHO, every living president and their cabinet are to blame as well as those Corporate CEOs and should be held accountable for high treason. And because death has been perpertrated against innocent civilians as a result of political decisions, they too should taste the judgement they brought upon the people. The military should side with the people, not the politicians. And justice should be legally and lawfully persued apprehending these traitors.
But alas, it will not happen as the people have been dumbed down so far, they cannot recognise a duck when they see one.

The Job Loss is because the Free Trade concept is not a viable or legitimate economic principal as it is different from Fair or Reasonable-Trade because it is based on the Free Market principals that have failed the field test and resulted in our present economic doom. This present form of "Free Trade" is not just based on goods manufactured in the United States, but rather the export of US Manufacturing, Jobs, and Technology Knowledge Base. It has been done in such an extreme way that is extracting from the US citizen their ability to profit from the fruits of their own labor in much the same way that Indentured Servitude or Slavery does. This is basically a violation of the US Constitution and it's resolution should hold priority over flawed Free Trade laws and poorly managed Globalization. I think that a legitimate adaptation of Free Trade would be to limit imports from countries that have a diminishing trade imbalance with us, in a regulated and fair way that brings about balanced trade. In this manner it shouldn't violate any reasonable Trade Laws and the same dollar amount of the economic stimulus package would still go into the US economy, while also maintaining World Trade. This change is urgently important as presently we are undercutting our own ability to maintain an economy, educate our youth, and nurture the Technological and Economic Growth needed to continue as a world leader.

Let's see. Thousands and thousands of people are losing their jobs. The cost of those things that make a modern society modern (utilities, communications, transportation) keep climbing. States are going bankrupt. On and on it goes. Just what's the point of "Democrat and Republican" anyway?

We have to get back to a manufacturing based economy or we will all end up on welfare. No other industry has the math to back that up. The sooner our politicians realize that - the sooner we can start getting it fixed. Patriotic Capitalism is what we need to practice. The government and the corporations need to protect their home citizens jobs. If the people have jobs - all the financial problems go away.

Freightliner does NOT manufacture cars! They manufacture HEAVY DUTY TRUCKS for commercial transportation.
Kennametal is primarily a machine shop tooling supplier as well as a vendor for other industrial and commercial products that are primarily targeted at manufacturing.

The problem is American Politicians and Greedy Corporate CEOs as well as investors who play a role in investing (for profit) in these giant manufacturing corporations that had been the backbone of the nation.
Since the end of WWII, there has been a steady decline in manufacturing here in the US. With the advent of the EPA, OSHA, and other gov. agencies, more manufacturing disappeared.
High schools have retired occupational courses from their curriculum with the reason given "The jobs will not be needed anymore"

My point is simple - America, if you don't work, you don't eat and if you don't eat, you starve, you starve until fear sets in and when fear sets in, crime follows.

Ask yourself a question: What do you do with a car you can no longer depend on??

You get rid of it. You throw it away.
America is a throwaway society and now... with acceptance of abortion nearly being the rule rather than the exception, and violent crime in tow, is it any wonder that you, mr or mrs reader-of-these-words are also considered a throw-away item. That's what social security numbers are for - you are someone else's property. Their's to do whatever you wish and they have the military to enforce their will upon you.
If you don't agree, it is because you cannot see the forest for the trees.
Have a nice day.
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Dear Pres. Obama,

I just heard you say the purpose your stimulus Bill is to "save or create 3 million jobs." I notice that number keeps getting smaller, while the price of this Bill keeps getting larger.

At the moment the Senat Bill has a $ 900 Billion price tag for 3 million jobs. If my public school math is correct, that is $300,000 per job. That's nuts!

Why are many of these companies who have laid off employee still advertising on TV? They don't need advertising to keep people aware of the. they hava base that willkepp them operational. they should take themoney they placeon advertisinga nd put it in thepocketsof its workers if theycan'yt find anything to do with it but sell their product. Americans know who has the best coffee. They line u p every morning for it. They know whohas the best photo products. theyuse it every day. It dioes not take a rocket scientist to figure how to stop the bleding of jobs. Stop the advertising and then the networks will talk about more important things than who did what to whom, and let the community service annouoncement advertise more to get the message out to American of service avaialble to them. If we want to make it better

Not being very versed with economics and how things work financially, I cannot conclude one way or the other whether the economic recovery package would be effective to the scale suggested. My feeling is that doing nothing about this probably will impact the middle/lower income people more.
But as an individual who has lived though the last 8 years, I am pretty cynical with the ideas being floated by the republicans. My theory is that why didn't they suggest these ideas and put them into practice the past 8 years. Where was all these outrage and concern then? Why have they all of a sudden become purveyors of good economic judgement. I have my suspicions about their motives, so I'm comfortable in supporting what the democracts are proposing. but the debate should go on to get the best possible recovery plan.

I keep telling people to rent the silent film 1929 cult " Metropolis" by Fritz Lang. The done looking workers down on the bottom & Wall St & companies on the top. If the money doesn't flow but only to the rich, we pay more. I may sound obtuse but lenders in the lent mostly to the rich. Now the "anything goes" is over. We have become a bunch of drone workers who have lost our jobs. I hope & pray things change of this country.

For a while there was an anti-virtuous circle where Wall Street would urge companies to cut jobs in the US and ship them overseas. They would then upgrade the stock as a reward. Wall Street did this knowing it would create excess money flows from Asia and other parts and that they would get to invest.

Now days companies slash jobs and their stocks go down. No praise, no reward because Wall Street has been neutered by the government.

So how do you all like unfettered Capitalism now?!?! I figured it out way back in the 80's during Reagonimcs that Capitalism is nothing more than another form of indentured servitude. Corporations are the new slave owners and treat their employees as dispensable slaves. People if you don't own your own business or work with a small local business (less than 10 people), your ultimate fate and destiny will be at the beckon call of the corporate puppet masters. I despise the corporacracy (government, banks, WMF, corporations, etc.) and all that they stand for. It will be because of the corporacracy's unchecked greed and self-indulgent activities in the name of furthering economic growth that will ultimately be the demise of our American empire as we know it. I hate to be a "Debbie Downer" but this is reality People! The sooner the populous figures this out, we'll all be better off. Remember, there's power in numbers and there are more numbers with the general populace than the top 1%. I'm sure our forefathers are all turning in their graves right now!
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tonyrotz comment is the best one I have seen yet. Rush- pill poppin Limbaugh needs to answer as to why all the Bush tax cuts didnt do a damn thing but bankrupt and destroy America. Realise now folks that the republicans cut taxes waged illegal wars, deregulated wall street and still claim its a good thing...The tax cuts are in place and they didnt work. Al it did was raise the deficit because no income means youre borrowing. I read about Daschles Limo... NO LIMOS folks. no jets for the president even. If I am paying for this crap the Senators can ride bicycles with no secret service; if they are afraid of that then they need to face what they have done to the american people. In Roman times when caesars got to powerfull they were deposed. We should do the same to congress and the senate; they should have to pay to be in office; No salaries at all it should be a prestige thing.

tonyrotz comment is the best one I have seen yet. Rush- pill poppin Limbaugh needs to answer as to why all the Bush tax cuts didnt do a damn thing but bankrupt and destroy America. Realise now folks that the republicans cut taxes waged illegal wars, deregulated wall street and still claim its a good thing...The tax cuts are in place and they didnt work. Al it did was raise the deficit because no income means youre borrowing. I read about Daschles Limo... NO LIMOS folks. no jets for the president even. If I am paying for this crap the Senators can ride bicycles with no secret service; if they are afraid of that then they need to face what they have done to the american people. In Roman times when caesars got to powerfull they were deposed. We should do the same to congress and the senate; they should have to pay to be in office; No salaries at all it should be a prestige thing.