Comments on: Unemployment Rate Highest Since ’86

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:28:52 +0000

GM is going down because they can’t get out of a 1930′s mechano-money groupthink. Americans will be re-visited by the perils of the 30′s because China and India are blooming into their own Golden Industrial age, the one the US is leaving. We need to push full force into the environmental age, a green age, an age where, at last we realize that we are not machines, but biological entities, and can survive on things that grow! We have birth control figured out, now we need to dispose of materialism for the consumers sake and find the real biological reasoning of life, and worship at the alter of sustainable, sun-driven biological processes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:26:00 +0000

I wish it were that simple, that forces outside of the individual are responsible for an individual’s problems.
It wasn’t long ago that full employment was defined as 5% unemployment. Something called, correct me if I’m wrong, Keynesian economic theory.
At all times of economic suffering there will be those who find ways to survive and even become wealthy. It would be quite easy, even shallow, to say that those who prosper in hard times do it by exploiting the suffering of others.
If you are a supplicant, you can be turned down. The guy in the picture is a supplicant. The guy who painted his sign, probably got rich.