Comments on: More Jobs but Workers Spend More Time Jobless

By: Ruby

Ruby — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:08:04 +0000

Good luck getting the US Govt to do your bidding for you.
You have to put the power and control back into the hands of the citizens. The only way to do this is for people to start building businesses owned by employees. The problem in the US is GREED. Americans are greedy and once they start a business they take the same route everyone else does and they start outsourcing jobs. Go to employee owned companies with some finance incentives from the Govt and you will see that go away.
A company that is owned by it’s employees is going to do better than a company owned by the global elite if people start waking up and supporting their fellow citizens.

By: Ruby

Ruby — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:55:54 +0000

We need to start focussing on Employee owned companies. Owned 100% by Employee’s not stock holders or private cooperations. Employee owned companies are more productive, and profitable. They don’t send jobs overseas, have a vested interest in the success of the company, provide good health insurance. We need to focus on getting the Govt to start coughing up bailout money to people who want to start employee owned companies meaning everyone makes the same and has the same share in the company. They own the company. It isn’t the same as socialism or communism in Russia because those people did not own anything, the Govt owned and distributed the wealth. In an employee owned company, the employees have the control, not the govt or the elite. Start producing food in the states and cut out all The Fat Cats making huge profits while we starve.

By: Joe6P@ck

Joe6P@ck — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:36:21 +0000

One way to decrease unemployement in this country is to demand that the Congress do more to place limits on the outsourceing of jobs overseas so that American workers would no longer be forced to compete with the starvation wages paid to the peasant class of developing countries where our jobs are being outsourced.

Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon had introduced a bill to Congress back in April of ‘09 called “H.R. 1875 Emergency Commission to End The Trade Deficit” which would, among other things, actually enforce all of the rules in the existing trade agreements, thereby making it much more difficult for American companies to ship any more jobs overseas. The bill was submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee in April of 2009 and not much has been done about it since. So my suggestion to the readers of this blog is to contact The Ways and Means Comittee and/or their elected representative directly and demand that they get moving on this bill and others like it.

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=10470

or if you prefer to contact an elected official directly:

http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

By: k2kelly

k2kelly — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:56:00 +0000

How the hell can you have an economy that hasnt added 1 net job in 2years, yet the unemployment rate goes down and the ratio of jobseeker to jobs goes down??I was born at night,but not last night.
If we do not know the extent of the problem,how do we go about fixing it?