It was only a matter of time before the nation’s skyrocketing unemployment translated into new recruits for the most powerful military force in the world.
With the official US unemployment rate at 10 percent and climbing (that’s more than 15 million people struggling to put food on the table) and nearly double that number if you include part-time wage-earners who need full-time jobs, never mind all of those ‘discouraged workers,’ it’s little wonder that so many of the nation’s jobless are flocking into its military recruitment offices.
After all, what better way for an unemployed American worker to survive the Great Recession of 2009 than in the ‘service’ of his or her country?
Americans have a long history of consuming and/or killing their way out of crisis. And it isn’t looking as if that model will be up for reassessment anytime soon. The parameters of what we like to call the “national conversation” are as narrow as ever, and they are not widening under the current leadership. So far at least, even Obama’s ‘Clean Energy Economy’ has failed to deliver enough ‘green jobs’ (or any other color jobs for that matter) to begin the process of meaningful transition. With the season of consuming just around the corner, many Americans – especially those in blue collar jobs like construction, manufacturing and retail service – are staring into the economic abyss.
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Liberal tripe
ReplyDeleteLook at our 'wars' all based on lies. A shame. Pity the poor people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Neither has done anything to our Empire except have assets that we want. So many families, women, and children must suffer and die. Put a flag in your window and drive around, proud of that.
ReplyDeleteThat picture is of Chinese soldiers practicing for the Olympics security.
ReplyDeleteAre Americans joining the Peoples Liberation Army?
That photo is about as dumb as a concrete block.
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