We Americans must be a remarkably patient people. It ‘s been four years since Wall Street ruined the economy, we’re nearly nine million jobs behind where we need to be, and for years our politicians have debated how much less – not how much more – they’ll do about it.
We’ve patiently endured lectures about ‘tightening our belts’ while most Americans watched their wages decline. We’ve stood by as corporate forces manipulated politicians and the press into a manufactured sense of deficit hysteria,watched several rounds of spending cuts make our problems worse, and seen their austerity ideologys discredited by events.
And yet here are no uprisings, no mass demonstrations, no demands for jobs now and an end to any further cuts until the economy’s working again.
As we were saying: A remarkably patient people. You could even say too patient.
Now we’re about to be hit with another round of devastating spending cuts, thanks to the so-called “sequester.” Here are 14 reasons to rise up and demand action on our real problems once and for all.
1. We need nine million jobs.
2. We’re not creating nearly enough jobs to get us out of the hole.
3. Middle-class jobs are disappearing.
4. Youth unemployment is still at devastating levels – while older Americans can’t retire.
5. Meanwhile, nearly half of all American households are teetering on the edge of crisis.
6. Consumer confidence is falling.
7. The government’s planning for eight more years of misery.
8. Instead, government is cutting jobs instead of creating them.
9. We’ve already cut $1.5 trillion in spending.
10. And now the sequester’s coming.
11. Deficit hysteria was a hoax … and it’s passing.
12. Spending cuts don’t cure recoveries, they kill them.
13. it’s irresponsible for the government not to borrow right now.
14. And another Wall Street crisis could come at any time.
Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor from
via Richard (RJ) Eskow: 14 Reasons to Rise Up – For Jobs, and Against More Spending Cuts.
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