LaToya Egwuekwe: Illustrating Unemployment - As Unemployment Deepens, Dems Lose Touch With Nation

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Run time: 03:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLldUJ6yzE   Posted on YouTube: January 07, 2010 By YouTube Member: latoyaegwuekwe Views on YouTube: 5446   Posted on DU: April 11, 2010 By DU Member: democracy1st Views on DU: 740

 
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Creator of interactive unemployment map, "The Decline: The Geography of a Recession," LaToya Egwuekwe talks with CNN Your $$$ host Christine Roman.

The march of unemployment
by: Paul Rosenberg

Make no mistake, if the Democrats lose big in November, it will be because they failed to recognize the world they live in, the world so clearly and simply revealed by Ms. Egwuekwe's data presentation. And if they lose big, they will do so in the name of "pragmatism", "political realism", "post-partisanship", "consensus" and the like. They will lose spectacularly in the name of fighting against "polarization" and "ideological rigidity" and in the name of "mov beyond the tired debates between right and left," as President Obama said in announcing the resumption of off-shore oil drilling, "Because this issue is just too important to allow our progress to languish while we fight the same old battles over and over again."

In short, if they lose big in November, they will do it because they are utterly clueless, utterly indifferent to the suffering of tens of millions of Americans who put their faith in them. If the Democrats lose big in November, it will be because they totally deserved it for dereliction of duty.


http://www.openleft.com/diary/18178/the-march-of-unemployment

Updated 03.27.10, The Decline: The Geography of a Recession by LaToya Egwuekwe (OFFICIAL)

According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly 30 million people currently unemployed -- that's including those involuntarily working parttime and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. "The Decline: The Geography of a Recession," as created by labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, serves as a vivid representation of just how much. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 -- approximately one year before the start of the recession -- to the most recent unemployment data available today. Original link: www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofareces sion.html. For more information, email [e-mail]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T6vuoQdY6Q

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/unemployment-pain-deepens-democrats-l

[midnight]

1. "If the Democrats lose big in November, it will be because

they totally deserved it for dereliction of duty." I hope for the sake of those who need change that it comes, because we don't need to loose anymore seats.

[ananda]

2. If the Dems lose big..

.. nobody will be representing the interests of the people.

Think about that.

[protocol rv]

3. A solution to solve the unemployment problem

Is to have a more efficient method to remove the illegal aliens from the workforce. This can be achieved by sending them home in a well thought and humane fashion. At the same time, the flow of legal immigrants has to be managed, emphasizing younger educted people who will contribute to tax collection for a long time.

The poorly managed US immigration system, which allows illegal immigrants to flood in and take up jobs in the lower skilled classes really hurts the American poor and the less trained working classes, because this leads to an excess of supply, and the excess of supply leads to unemployment and low wages.

Therefore the liberal solution to encourage illegal immigration and give them the right to work in the US harms the American working class, expecially the groups at the lower end of the scale.

The interesting issue is that democrats and liberals are the ones who focus a lot on legalizing these aliens, and even propose bringing more in. This is really dumb, because it harms the interests of the people who should be their core constituents. If this democratic party position isn't changed, the US economy will really be hurt, and the economic future of the american working class will be destroyed.