Do Politicians Give a F**ck About the People Doomed to Chronic Unemployment?

[marmar]

via AlterNet:



Posted by dougj at 11:00 am
September 7, 2010

Do Politicians Give a F**ck About the People Doomed to Chronic Unemployment?
Posted by dougj on @ 11:00 am


This post first appeared on Balloon Juice.

Via Atrios, an excellent post about the recession:

(Recession is) often taken as a big deal in the simple sense that the experience of recession sucks. But, people say, there are lots of bad experiences and this is just one of them. Sometimes we have to suck it up.

My argument is no, this isn’t just another bad experience. Its a failure of our most basic institutions and is leading to pure loss.

It would be as if the door to your apartment was ripped off and heat was spilling out into the atmosphere and people said “Well you know sometimes you have deal with the cold, lets talk about the ideal size of an apartment. Big ones are draftier you know. No small ones cool down too quickly”

What! No! Lets fix the fucking door. Do you understand: the door is missing. This is not the time to argue about ideal apartment size, this is the time to keep our heat from spilling out purposelessly.

I was going to say that the media has a tendency to talk about recession as something that just hurts people’s fee-fees, like the Islamic Center, but in fact the discussion is much worse than that: when recessions hurt fee-fees, they build character—look at the Greatest Generation!—whereas the Islamic Center is a debilitating, irreversible blow to the delicate spirit of Real Murka.

Right now, a few percent of the population is likely being doomed to a life of chronic unemployment. From the discussions politicians and elite media are having right now, I can only conclude that they just don’t give a fuck about that.


http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/07/do-politicians-give-a-fck-about-the-people-doomed-to-chronic-unemployment/

[leftstreet]

1. No. They only care about their own employment n/t

[speppin]

8. and their future employment as lobbyists.

[Lost4words]

2. to quote Ted Stevens "NO" nt

[n2doc]

3. No. Because they don't give contributions or cushy jobs to them

And too many can be brainwashed into voting against their own interests. Until that changes, and they vote in enough numbers to not be ignored, they will continue to be ignored.

[Vincardog]

4. Not as long as their votes can be disappeared in a Crooked A$$ED BBV machine

[craigmatic]

5. Yes they do...in election years.

[madrchsod]

6. nope....the politicians know these people do not vote

[Raineyb]

7. Hell no they don't!

But they certainly give a damn about their own employment to the point where they apparently expect us to vote for them whether they do shit to help us or not.

[aquart]

9. Nah. They think they're too depressed to vote.