Togetherness
August 26th, 2010 | Editorial Cartoons | 4 Comments
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Now that the stimulus spending is winding down (note to critics of stimulus spending, who said it didn’t do anything: if it didn’t do any good, why is the loss of it endangering the recovery?), the job market is looking grim again. For reasons I can’t quite fathom in this oddest of election years, neither party seems to have much to say about the number one issue in the polls: jobs. The Dems know that they can’t pass anything right now, but instead of trying to get a big jobs bill through, and forcing the GOP to defend the indefensible, they seem to have given up. The Republicans are all about one issue only–extending the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, because it’s not a good idea to raise taxes in a recession, although it’s hard to know who will be hurt by taking a bit more from really rich people, and on the discredited theory that keeping the tax cuts will create jobs, (note to GOP: where are all the jobs that the tax cut was supposed to produce in the first place?).
In the meantime, the millions without work can spend their days waiting for the economy to tank again and looking for jobs that don’t exist, or worrying about a mosque in New York or immigrants taking the jobs that don’t exist in Arizona.
On that Islamic Center issue, I just returned from a few days in New York, where nobody I met was talking about the Ground Zero mosque (note to readers: it’s a community center, not a mosque, and it’s not at Ground Zero) even though Rupert Murdoch’s Post was doing its lurid best to keep up with his Fox News and make an election issue of it. I’m convinced the only politician in America with any courage at all is Mayor Bloomberg (a Republican), who is still standing firm on the principle of freedom of religion.
Topics: cartoon, economy, employment, jobs, opinion, recession, unemployment
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You have just re-ignited my faith and hope in mankind. Sometimes we feel helpless and even hopeless and then some good soul forwards a message such as this.
Thank you and know that you are not alone and other are working hard just as your are.
Joe C.
This too will pass – but we can hope that we value each other more for enduring the hardships together.
T1pm0G http://djb3jDdmjckow30cnjcmd61l0dy.com
See what Germany has done since uniting BRD & DDR, and what they have done during this present horrid recession, or depression.
I will give you the lesson again.
The rich old white coots, Darth Cheney’s friends and fellow war profiteers, take home about 3/4 of the money out there, so, yes, they should pay about 3/4 of taxes. When georgie and the AWOL congress used reconciliation to cut their taxes, the treasury did not get 3/4 of what it would collect ordinarily. So, our government had to function on 1/4 of the usual piggy bank. Add to that $12,000,000,000.00 per month to fight the Darth’s bs war in Uraq and the bad guys in Afghanistan was off the books and not part of the annual budget. Add to that georgie telling us that cutting taxes would encourage them to hire more people and pay more benefits at a time when they could not out-source fast enough.
Want a job? Bring back all those jobs and cut the pay of the top, and separate health care from the job, and make education available to all. Can those clowns live of 1 or 2 or million per annum? If not, then tough nouggies. A bonus is a reward for a job well done, not for tanking the company. take heed.