I shake my head when I hear the moralistic mindset expressed that unemployed people just don’t really want to work, or they don’t try hard enough to find work. But what hope do they have when the unemployed need not apply?
I shake my head when I hear the moralistic mindset expressed that unemployed people just don’t really want to work, or they don’t try hard enough to find work. But what hope do they have when the unemployed need not apply?
Jeaniebeanie, a documentary film called “The 1 Percent” discusses the 1% of the U.S. population that controls 50% of this country’s wealth. Mind-boggling to contemplate – and frightening – isn’t it!!! It’s in my Netflix queue, to watch. Add to that the Supreme Court decision that permits corporations to make political campaign contributions as if they were private individuals. The banks that were bailed out as “too big to fail” are bigger than ever now, after Wall Street’s near melt-down… from which it recovered… although not Main Street, not the housing market, not the job market. What we have now is a deck stacked against the unemployed, as Doug points out here. As for those who do have jobs, they can’t afford to retire, and can’t afford to move in order to take another job, – because the equity in their homes has been severely slashed at best, or they’re upside down in their mortgage at worst. Is this the American Dream for us little guys who aren’t a member of the One Percenters?
This is a very frightening trend. I also just heard on the news that the gap between the “haves” and have-nots” is wider than it has ever been in U.S. history. A very small minority of people have all the money, and the rest of us are broke.