I wasn’t one of those people who experienced the prosperity of the Clinton administration. I had a pretty long run of unemployment and low paying jobs in the 1990s. When Bush was president, I had more years of sporadic, but better quality employment. As Hurricane Katrina was wiping out whole communities, I found the good job that I still have.
I’ll accept that I’m something of a contra-indicator. I didn’t get a good manufacturing job in the 90s that was outsourced in the 2000s. Neither am I benefiting from some great stimulus plan by the Obama administration. I may be helped by that Bush-era tax cut on lower incomes. Still, it was a matter of being at the right place at the right time.
Millions of jobs were lost due to Obama’s terrible economic policy and idiotic legislation. You can blame the aggregate number of jobs lost on the government, but blaming your individual job loss on the government is tenuous at best. Everyone has their own circumstances for losing (or getting) a job. I don’t blame Clintonomics or credit Bushonomics for my job history.
From what I’ve seen on PUMA blogs, the people who lost jobs recently seem to be the most attracted to the OWS Kool-aid. Obama coddled the big banks and those big banks invest in companies who have had trouble getting money from the big banks lately. Then there are the local governments whose budgets are so large, they’ve had to start their own austerity measures. Larger forces are at work, and there is a desire to gang up and do something about it.
You can find solace in a Tea Party rally or an Occupy protest but the place you should be heading for is a voting booth. The best way to deal with a job loss is through reciprocation. Fire the people who make government run like a rusty machine. A newbie you hate can’t do nearly as much damage as an incumbent you may kind of like. Politicians think about their legislation as a future member of the political lobbyist class, Make them think about legislation as a future member of the regular working stiff class.
Filed under: 2012 Elections, Corruption, Crony Capitalism, Politics, Tea Party, Wall Street Banks
I was always very lucky in finding a job. I did office work and worked for a newspaper in the 60s-to the mid 70s, Then I went to work for a railroad. In the 80s congress said Conrail had to get out of the passenger business and I went to work for New Jersey Transit in Newark then New York CIty then Hoboken and I lived south of Philadelphia. I came back to Conrail when I could hold a job and then got laid off again. I then went to work for Amtrak until I retired. Then I was called to be a consultant for Metrolink in SO California. I worked odd hours and weekends and travel great distances to work, But it was necessary to do so.
But now people are having a much harder time finding jobs. Not only jobs that pay well but any kind of a job. I do not remember ever seeing this before.
Nice post–thanks. I’ve been lucky too and so have my daughters–they graduated in the 90′s and so far still have work (crossed fingers).
Maybe it is partly just luck.
My sister thinks we should just keep voting them out till they get the message. I’m just not sure they will ever get the message or that the damage will be too great by then. We so needed Hillary.
honk
Paul Ryan’s response to the income inequality report
http://blog.american.com/2011/11/paul-ryans-17-page-response-to-the-cbos-income-inequality-study/
You can find solace in a Tea Party rally or an Occupy protest but the place you should be heading for is a voting booth.
Honk!
I’m occupying a voting booth. You betcha! Where I live every job loss, every business closure, can be directly tied to the policies of the fed, the state, and the local government.