| The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported a | | | | economic limbo out there with a labor force of at |
| low unemployment rate for years. Behind these | | | | least double that number. Studying the way the |
| reports are articles about 50 percent of all young | | | | unemployment rate is gathered is another story. |
| blacks in the inner city being unemployed and another | | | | Reportedly, the BSL gets their results by a random |
| story about 33 percent of all who lost their jobs | | | | statistical calling of 50,000 households a month. |
| after age 55 never finding another one. A local church | | | | The person answering the phone is asked if they |
| bulletin carried this notation for a long time - " | | | | looked for a job in the past month. If they say no, |
| Success is reaching Social Security age before having | | | | they are counted as employed. If a person says they |
| to declare bankruptcy. The Consumer Bankruptcy | | | | are helping out in the family business or on the family |
| Project found that the rate at which older Americans | | | | farm without any pay, while they are looking for a |
| - those 65 years of age or older - filed for | | | | regular job, they too are considered employed. We |
| bankruptcy increased 213 percent between 1991 and | | | | welcome anyone to tell us we are wrong and we |
| 2001. The steepest increase in Chapter 7 filings | | | | wish we were wrong. The Get America Working |
| occurred among people older than 55. In 2002, the | | | | Forum says 50 percent of U.S. human resources are |
| percentage of Americans older than 45 who entered | | | | not being used. The term underemployment has |
| bankruptcy reached 39 percent up from 27 percent | | | | faded away. |
| in 1994, the study found. | | | | Meanwhile the media keep telling us how good the |
| Another report says that 47 percent of all small | | | | economy is with our low unemployment rates. They |
| business people maxed out their credit cards trying | | | | tell us how well the stock market is doing too. |
| to keep their business afloat in an economic arena of | | | | However, once upon a time, companies stocks |
| unfair trade. Many eventually suffered usury rates at | | | | values would increase based on how many people |
| up to 35 percent interest. Apparently many | | | | companies could hire while still making a decent profit. |
| bankruptcies are not based on just consumers | | | | Today the stock values are now based on people |
| overspending but basic survival. Today many who | | | | getting fired instead of hired. Some American |
| believed in the Free Enterprise system and the | | | | companies now have only about 10 percent of their |
| American Dream have to take a bankruptcy | | | | workforce in America. The stock values rise as more |
| education course before filing for bankruptcy. This | | | | low paid foreign workers are hired. As consumers |
| new law was passed by politicians with many being | | | | shop their jobs away at places like Walmart. |
| "double dippers" getting both a salary and a | | | | President Clinton confirmed Free Trade with the |
| retirement income while in the private sector have to | | | | passing of NAFTA and GATT trade agreements. |
| take this course after being in business for many | | | | President Bush followed affirming it was nothing |
| years. | | | | personal for it was only business in getting Fast |
| However, the most striking counter statistic is this. | | | | Track passed which makes the Executive Branch the |
| Only about 40 percent of all workers in the U.S. | | | | CEO of world trade. President Bush tells us the |
| qualify for unemployment insurance. The other 60 | | | | Mexican workers come to the United States to take |
| percent are in some sort of economic limbo. They | | | | jobs American will not do. He neglects to tell us that |
| either do not work long enough at one job or make | | | | Mexico reports low unemployment rates too and |
| enough money in any given period to qualify. ( We | | | | apparently, there are many jobs in Mexico that |
| also do not know how everything adds up with some | | | | Mexican workers will not take. The more than 4000 |
| people working up to four jobs at one time. It | | | | factories that were moved from the USA to Mexico |
| appears the BLS reports one job equals one worker. | | | | evidently did not help the Mexican economy that |
| ) | | | | much. It created a new working poor class in the |
| The Bureau of Labor Statistics stop using the | | | | USA and an impoverished working class in Mexico. |
| unemployment offices in their reporting due to this. | | | | Now many of these factories are moving out of |
| Which leaves us with this final conclusion. We do not | | | | Mexico to places like China because the Chinese will |
| need any conspiracy theories to know the | | | | take jobs that Mexican workers will not do. The |
| unemployment reporting is a managed system and a | | | | Globalist Free Traders want a world economy |
| single mother making only a $100 a month is | | | | without borders. They say it will spread prosperity |
| considered employed. This would have been laughable | | | | but in reality, they are spreading poverty because |
| during the 1970s. Then the laughter would have | | | | there will always be someone who will work for less |
| turned to something more serious and Congressional | | | | for down to the levels of wage slave and even child |
| hearing would been called. Now in the current | | | | labor. |
| economic arena, nothing has been done to expose | | | | Today, we can travel for miles across our cities and |
| this terrible void. | | | | view the vacant factories and stores while the |
| The BSL finally admitted about five years ago that | | | | government tells us happy days are here again with |
| many are missing in action from any kind of reporting | | | | the greeters at Walmart welcoming us to spend |
| giving up searching for a job. They put this figure at | | | | money of products made in far away places while |
| just 4 million while the streets tells us there must be | | | | our local value added economies have been chopped |
| many more than just 4 million. Hurricane Katrina in | | | | up into pieces as relics of another time. Our industrial |
| News Orleans exposed a vast under class living in a | | | | might won World War 2 and restored local value |
| silent depression. The same could apply across our | | | | added economies in Europe and Asia through the |
| land. | | | | Marshall Plan. In the end, the USA lost World War 2 |
| It is difficult to find out many many jobs are full time | | | | fifty years after the combat was over. |
| ones. From what we have studied only about 88 | | | | For more information, see Tapart News and Art that |
| million jobs are full time which confirms there is an | | | | Talks. |