Will Obama Exploit the Unemployed as Recruits for a Ramped Up War in Afghanistan?

[katty]

Will Obama Exploit the Unemployed as Recruits for a Ramped Up War in Afghanistan?

By Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch. Posted February 11, 2009.

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The jobless rate is a depression-level 18 percent. Americans might sign up to kill abroad rather than be homeless and hungry at home.

Is there intelligent life in Washington, D.C.? Not a speck of it.

The U.S. economy is imploding, and President Barack Obama is being led by his government of neoconservatives and Israeli agents into a quagmire in Afghanistan that will bring the U.S. into confrontation with Russia, and possibly China, America's largest creditor.

The January payroll job figures reveal that last month, 20,000 Americans lost their jobs every day.
In addition, December's job losses were revised up by 53,000 from 524,000 to 577,000. The revision brings the two-month job loss to 1,175,000. If this keeps up, Obama's promised 3 million new jobs will be wiped out by job losses.

Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reports that this huge number is an understatement. Williams notes that built-in biases in seasonal adjustment factors caused a 118,000 understatement of January job losses, bringing the actual January job loss total to 716,000 jobs.

[emulatorloo]

1. I can never tell if "CounterPunch" is for real or not

Sometimes is seems like it is written by GOP operatives in order to stir up things.

I guess they are probably sincere. But that is a hell of a fear mongering headline.

[katty]

3. PCR has been writing for years on a variety of issues

he is one pissed off 'used to be Republican'.

[anonymous171]

2. lol "Conflict with Russia" This article is hilarious. nt