Beware of angry, jobless men

[kayell]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&e=4&u=/usatoday/11814798

By Alan M. Webber

Summer came and went and it didn't feel much like summer. There may be a lesson in that, because the recession came and went and this doesn't feel much like a recovery. That's because jobs are still disappearing.


Labor Secretary Elaine Chao points to statistics that say the economy grew by 3.1% in the second quarter.


But there are other statistics, gloomier and more telling: The country has lost 3 million jobs over the past three years, 2.5 million of them in manufacturing. One survey found that 18% of American workers reported being laid off in the past three years. And this summer the average length of unemployment jumped to 19 weeks, the highest level in 20 years.


The statistics tell a discouraging story, and that growing sense of discouragement is exactly the point: Beyond the numbers are two critically important groups of American workers whose emotions, beliefs and attitudes will have an enormous influence over the direction of American politics as the presidential election heats up. For President Bush (news - web sites), the key to the intersection of jobs and voting patterns is not women, who lean more toward Democrats. It is men, predominately white, who tend to be in the Republican camp.


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[CO Liberal]

1. "Angry, Jobless Men"

Sounds like Freepers to me.......

:-)

[Porcupine]

2. Screw the vote; these guys are "Falling Down" all over the place....

I'm sorry but it's true. We have a culture that blames men personnally for being unemployed. A culture where "loser" is used as a description of a man without a job.

Expect more guys going postal on CNN nightly news. It's horribly sad.

[jburton]

3. We will hear more of this

Lots of so-called white males who supported Bush are getting pretty pissed. The Bush overtime rules. and now the $87 billion Iraqi tax cut, while jobs here are going bye-bye.

Lots of frustration. Lots of these people voted for Perot in 92.

[acerbic]

4. Dumbya & Co. don't need to worry about them

Just a little prodding and propaganda and they'll direct all their anger against immigrants and foreigners instead of who actually made them unemployed, as always before...