It’s not really news but what you won’t hear on the mainstream news is that the major media is a monopoly, owned by a small elite group that reports what they choose in a calculated manner. The people who actually care about America like Lou Dobbs are very few and are not allowed their own journalistic freedoms and editorial independence. While we hear endless stories about Lindsey Lohan and other nonsense, the real important issues and the fundamental reasons for problems go unmentioned.
It’s no surprise that unemployment is so high considering we’ve shipped our jobs overseas and given Wall Street banks a free license to steal from the taxpayer at will. Now that banks have their bail-out, they don’t have to release money into the economy in the form of loans to stimulate domestic business and job growth. American politicians are lobbied by major corporations unceasingly and funded by them for their political campaigns, no shocker then when they legislate against the common good of the American people.
Many Americans are out of jobs and the economy continues to lose substantially more jobs than it creates. The unemployment rate is at 9.5% but the actual unemployment figure is said to be around 20%. The “recovery” is now being called a “jobless recovery”, which is in reality, impossible. This means that a rising stock market benefiting the remaining shareholders and investors may show signs of recovery, but this neglects all the Americans out of work or those who have invested their savings and liquidated their investments just so they can live, foregoing any hopes of retirement.
I make an effort to take time to be grateful for what I have and work to stay positive. The best things in life are free.
These aren’t easy times, but we’re all in this together.
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