Millions of unemployed need jobs or income now

Millions of unemployed need jobs or income now

Source: People's Weekly World Newspaper

Author: Eric Brooks

Date: 07/30/09 11:56

Unemployment and underemployment are causing misery, homelessness, hunger, and fear in the lives of tens of millions of working class people and our families, devastating communities, and impacting people of color, particularly African-Americans, Latinos, and most of all Native Americans disproportionately.

Those with money, the rich and the powerful, may find the masses of the unemployed an annoyance but, as Franklin Folsom writes in “Impatient Armies of the Poor: The Story of Collective Action of the Unemployed 1808-1942,” for the unemployed ourselves, leaving “a job means leaving a center and moving toward a periphery. It means leaving a collective pattern and entering formless isolation. Uniting under a boss or against a boss is a clear, understandable concept, but uniting against bosslessness is a very different matter.”

For the unemployed, watching our meager bank accounts drain away, experiencing the loss, one by one, of those sustaining resources— electricity, telephone, home, car, food—that keep our children and our spouses and ourselves whole and active is like sitting in a room out of which the air is being pumped, and knowing that each breath leaves less of what we need to survive.

In the midst of these challenges, community and collective struggle counteract the shame and fear that one may experience, and provide a path to expressing just demands for work or bread, jobs or income now. As 30 million unemployed and countless more underemployed working class people and our families struggle to survive today, it is urgent to demand that our society respond with aid that meets our needs and by providing work to all who want employment. The unemployed united, together with our allies, can fan with the breath of struggle the embers of hope that burn in our hearts.

Read more: http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/16575/

as long as nothing is done about offshoring, America will continue to collapse into third world status

http://www.businessinsider.com/ballmer-threatens-obama-says-hell-move-jobs-overseas-2009-6

Given how MS products, which were at one time passable despite being dilettante, are now overpriced pieces of manure - it's not easy to forget what was originally ot be in vista and what eventually transpired, much less the bait'n'switch of DirectX 10 (a real swindle, for which millions were suckered into with the outright bogus claims of how Flight Simulator 10 would look on it)...

Even investors will leave MS if they start to fall apart. Everything I've read or experienced; more people will most definitely be leaving that doofus organization.

a true piece of crap - you get what you pay for and what Microsoft got was its reputation ruined

You're wasting your money, to say the least. Are the registry problems fixed? Replacement for the unwieldly NTFS file system? Are system requirements down (last I checked, they're higher than Vista's - proving MS hasn't got a CLUE)? How long of a legitimate list would you like?)

They tell people with newly released software, when reporting a bug, to wait for the next product release. (Expression Media 2) That's insipid. No small business, acting like such a pansy toddler, would get away with that.

Their hyping up how DirectX10 would make Flight Simulator X was just an artist's rendition, not backed up in the slightest by reality. Such misadvertising should be illegal, unless it already is.

Why allow yourself to continually get suckered?


Given the system requirements, maybe they finally fixed the Vista code... in which case it should be Vista SP2 and released for free as an "Ultimate" feature, as Microsoft did an end-run around that too...

we just lost two factories in my area...450 people will never go back to their jobs.