Item number one -- some people went around and analyzed people's work and the overall benefits to society that that work produced. The results are interesting to say the least.
From the BBC News:
Cleaners 'worth more to society' than bankers - study Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than bankers, a study suggests.
The research, carried out by think tank the New Economics Foundation, says hospital cleaners create �10 of value for every �1 they are paid.
It claims bankers are a drain on the country because of the damage they caused to the global economy.
They reportedly destroy �7 of value for every �1 they earn. Meanwhile, senior advertising executives are said to "create stress".
The study says they are responsible for campaigns which create dissatisfaction and misery, and encourage over-consumption.
Obama counters Republican critics on jobs agenda President Barack Obama defended his administration's economic recovery efforts on Thursday and accused Republicans of trying to block Democratic policies for political gain.
With public anxiety over the fragile economy threatening Obama's Democrats in November's congressional elections, he tried to turn the tables on Republican critics, accusing them of sitting on the sidelines last year when he was tackling the financial crisis.
And a bit more:
Obama said Republicans have "done their best to gum up the works" and said they generated much of the country's fiscal deficit that they now complain about.
"Their basic attitude has been, if Democrats lose, we win. After they drove the car in the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want the keys back. No. They can't drive. We don't want to have to go back in the ditch," he said.
Debit was heading down, jobless rates were stable. Sure, the RINOs were not following their constituents requests and Congress was an open feeding trough for kickbacks and pork but for Obama to point his finger while he, in one year tripled the national debt and while, in some sectors, unemployment is over 20%. Pot meet kettle...
Finally, Item number three -- that sector with over 20% unemployment? They are getting vocal.
From inafj.org
inafj.org? I Need A Fricking Job
Youth unemployment is around 27% -- some of this is from studying useless but fun things in college and other lack of qualifications but a lot of this is outsourcing of work to foreign nations. Time to restart the economy and get things moving again and get us away from the Europen progressive model. People want to work...
Posted by DaveH at May 13, 2010 7:18 PM