Fwd: Constitution Party News and Information---Jobs? Dan Frank Was Right; Chuck Baldwin Asks "What Change?" Great National Meeting Bargain
Nancy Spirkoff
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Subject: Constitution Party News and Information---Jobs? Dan Frank Was Right; Chuck Baldwin Asks "What Change?" Great National Meeting Bargain
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Dan Frank (shown above, seated at left),
533,000 Jobs Lost in November
Since the Beginning of the Year, 1.8 Million Jobs Have Been Cut by Employers
By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ and DANIEL ARNALL
ABC NEWS Business Unit
Dec. 5, 2008—
The American economy was dealt another brutal blow in November with the loss of a startling 553,000 jobs, the government announced today.
The number was much worse than Wall Street analysts had predicted. It was the largest monthly decline since December 1974 and it shows just how long and bad this recession has become. Since the start of the year American employers have shed 1.8 million jobs.
Just about every day, another company announces a big round of layoffs.
Just today, General Motors announced that it would fire another 2,000 workers in three car factories. Thursday, DuPont said it would cut about 2,500 jobs and AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. phone company, said it's eliminating 12,000 jobs.
"Today's job data reflects the fact that our economy is in a recession," President Bush said today.
"I'm concerned about our workers who've lost jobs during this downturn," he said. "As we work to address the problems in this economy, we've extended unemployment insurance benefits to those who have lost their jobs during this downturn."
To see the impact the recession is having on Americans, look no further than the Bexley family of Loveland, Colo.
In the past three months, mom was laid off from a home-building company, her son from a bar and grill, and now dad has lost his job at a medical-supply company.
"It was heart-crushing, really," said the mother, Emily Bexley, who was laid off in August. "I just I cried and cried and cried, because none of us have a job."
Father Bud Bexley lost his job last month.
"I kind of got a sick feeling in my stomach," he said. "I'm out looking for a job today, and delivering resumes, and just doing what you've got to do, I guess."
He's Got Too Much Work
There are a few people benefiting during this economy.
Larry, who asked that his last name not be used, processes unemployment claims for the state of California.
As the economy has sunk deeper into a recession, he has worked longer and longer hours to process all the claims. He now gets about 20 hours of overtime each week. That's been going on for nearly five months.
Now he is even working Saturdays to handle extra claims.
"I never, never mention it to people that I'm talking to on the phone, because they are unemployed," Larry said. "It's not a good situation."
Recently, he said, there is more panic in people's voices as they call up to seek government help.
Long-time employees now laid off are also finding a vastly different job scene.
"Looking for a job has changed," Larry said. You used to be able to walk into a company and fill out an application or mail in your resume. "Everything is over the computer or through e-mail now."
Unemployment Rate Jumps
The unemployment rate also shot up from 6.5 percent to 6.7 percent, the Labor Department said. It is the highest unemployment rate the country has seen since October 1993.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 200 points after the disappointing news on jobs but was down about 100 points by noon.
As the recession deepens and consumers and companies cut back spending, American businesses are slashing jobs to try to remain profitable.
The jobs losses have been widespread with just about every industry affected. Large layoffs have been seen in manufacturing, construction, financial firms, retailers, travel and leisure and hospitality. Health care remains one of the few fields where jobs are holding their own, if not growing. Education and government jobs (Why am I not surprised? Ed.) were also bight spots in an otherwise dismal report.
In real terms, unemployment rates this high mean that more than 10 million of us are looking for work but simply cannot find it. That's an additional 2.7 million people who have been actively looking for jobs but have not found them since the beginning of the recession.
The last three months, coinciding with the ongoing world financial crisis, have been dismal -- the average monthly jobs loss was 419,000 -- as American companies have faced a perfect storm of economic collapse.
The consumers they sell to have tightened their pocketbooks. Banks and commercial lending markets they rely on to stock the shelves and pay their employees have not been functioning. They have no choice but to cut back -- big and fast.
Consumer Credit
Today's report presents an almost unprecedented challenge to the nation: How, in a world driven by credit and the consumer, do you counter the credit crunch and record-low consumer credit?
Even the most conservative economists are now saying the government must create a massive stimulus program with all due haste. And interest rates have to be almost zero -- money should be almost free to entice qualified borrowers, though gladiator capitalists have retreated to the sidelines.
The Federal Reserve System will almost certainly lower a key federal interest rate below the historic low 1 percent where it sits now. The governors meet in a two-day session Dec. 15-16 to craft their response to today's report. Could Bernanke & Co. be considering a cut before the meeting? They could. They've done so twice already this year.
The incoming Obama administration and Democratic-controlled Congress will almost certainly start fleshing out details of the Stimulus Act of 2009 in short order. Those in the know expect at least $1 trillion in direct fiscal stimulus during the next two years. It could be more; it's almost impossible for it to be less if lawmakers want it to be effective, according to the experts.
It also makes it that much more difficult for Congress and the Bush administration to turn the Detroit 3 away. They are currently in Washington begging for the $34 billion bailout. The estimate of jobs fallout if just one of the companies collapses is 2.5 million.
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December 5, 2008
"Change you can believe in." This was Barack Obama's campaign slogan. There is no doubt that the American people were fed up with George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans. Who can blame them?
After campaigning for change back in 1999 (What political challenger doesn't campaign for change?), President Bush and his fellow neocons promptly set out to continue business as usual in Washington, D.C. Federal spending and meddling exploded under the leadership of the GOP. In fact, one has to go back to the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt to match the increases in Big Government and Big Brother by Bush and Company. Add to the out-of-control spending habits of the GOP an unnecessary war, a near-Depression economy, and a burgeoning police state. It is no surprise that the American people were ready for change. And Obama excelled in delivering the message of change. So, what kind of change will Obama actually deliver?
Will Obama remove U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan? Probably not. Oh, he might reduce troops in Iraq, but if anyone believes that he will not leave a significant U.S. presence in Iraq, they are living in a dream world. Furthermore, many, if not most, of the troops from Iraq will most likely find themselves in Afghanistan. Mark my words; Barack Obama has no plans to remove U.S. troops from the Middle East. Net result: no change.
What about America's economic woes? What changes will Barack Obama bring to the table? Hardly any. America will continue it's trademark deficit spending; we will continue to send manufacturing jobs overseas; so-called "free trade" deals will continue to advance; Big Business will continue to receive government bailouts; the Federal Reserve will continue to call the shots for America's financial decisions (and reap gargantuan profits in the process); Congress will continue to be inept, irresponsible, and clueless; there will be no attempt to return the United States to sound money principles; and there will be no reduction in foreign aid. In a nutshell, it will be business as usual in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
Don't get me wrong: Barack Obama will doubtless throw out some bones to his liberal supporters in much the same way that Republican presidents throw out a bone or two to their conservative constituents. Watch for Obama to overturn the ban on embryonic stem cell research. America's upper income earners can expect some sort of tax increase. No doubt oil companies will end up losing some tax exemptions. Watch for additional environmentalist policies to be enacted. And, yes, there will be some sort of "universal health care" proposal. But the Bush administration has already given America a socialized financial system, so how can Republicans complain about socialized medicine?
Obama might try to resurrect the "Fairness Doctrine." Some suggest that Obama might try to rid the prohibition of homosexuals serving in the armed forces, but I doubt that he will take on this one. The political net gain would not be worth the potential fallout.
Although he might want to, I doubt that Obama will actively promote additional gun control (Democrats always lose when this happens). He may push for a ban on "high capacity" magazines that hold over ten rounds, as Bill Clinton did. If Obama does not go after guns directly, we can expect some sort of attack on ammunition (which is already happening) that will drive up the cost of ammo even more. Of course, some sort of gun confiscation or martial law could materialize in the wake of another "terrorist" attack. But a McCain administration would act no differently, so, again, the net result is zero change. Remember, it was Republican George W. Bush who expunged Posse Comitatus and deployed 20,000 army troops on U.S. soil to be used for domestic law enforcement. If Obama really wanted to bring about change, he would reverse Bush's draconian decisions, would he not? Don't hold your breath.
We can also expect more harassment of gun owners and lawful gun dealers by the BATFE. But this is no change at all. The current leadership at BATFE is already about as hostile to gun owners and gun dealers as it can possibly be. An Obama BATFE will be no worse. But neither will it be any better. Net result: no change.
So, what will be the overall change to the direction of America? Answer: there will be no change to the overall direction of the country. There will be no change to the welfare state. There will be little change to the warfare state. No change to NATO, except to expand it. Very little change, if any, to foreign policy. No change to America's open sieves, otherwise called national borders. And there will be absolutely no change to the burgeoning New World Order that began in earnest under both Bushes and Bill Clinton.
The NAFTA superhighway will have the support of the Obama administration. The North American Community will proceed unimpeded by the Obama White House. In all likelihood, the Amero (a common currency with Canada and Mexico) will materialize during Obama's first term. But this would all have happened had John McCain been elected. No change here.
One reason why it is so easy to predict a business-as-usual Obama Presidency is the people that Obama has surrounded himself with. Former New York Federal Reserve chairman Timothy Geithner* for Secretary of the Treasury; former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers* for National Economic Council director; Bush's Defense Secretary Robert Gates* will keep his job; Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel for Obama's Chief of Staff; Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State; Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano* for Secretary of Homeland Security; former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle* to head the Health and Human Services Department; former Assistant Attorney General Eric Holder to be Attorney General; New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson* as Secretary of Commerce; Susan Rice* for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Paul Volcker* for the Economic Recovery Advisory Board; James Steinberg* as Deputy Secretary of State; Mona Sutphen* for Deputy White House Chief of Staff, and Louis Caldera* for Director of the White House Military Office.
Does anyone see "change" with the above names? Every one of them is a longtime political insider. And at least eleven of them (those with an asterisk [*] behind their names, above) are members of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In fact, six out of the eleven cabinet-level positions in the Obama administration are CFR members.
The CFR has dominated both Democrat and Republican Presidential administrations for decades. Presidents such as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton have all been members of the CFR. Vice Presidents such as Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, and Dick Cheney have been CFR members. And over the last several decades, practically every secretary of defense, secretary of the treasury, and most CIA directors have been CFR members. And let's not forget that this year's Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, is a CFR member.
Do you now see why--no matter who is elected President of the United States--nothing changes? Republican or Democrat, it does not matter: the CFR and their collaborators remain in power. And as Sonny and Cher used to sing, "The Beat Goes On."
There will be no real change in Washington, D.C., until the CFR and their elitist cronies are thoroughly and universally removed from power. And the only way this will happen is if we elect an Independent President of the United States (someone who truly understands the New World Order and is dedicated to defeating it), because the two major parties will never allow someone opposed to the CFR to become their nominee. The only Republican candidate for President in 2008 who demonstrated those credentials was Dr. Ron Paul. And to a lesser degree, the only Democrat who even seemed to vaguely understand this was Dennis Kucinich. Notice that both men were thoroughly repudiated by their respective parties' leadership and all but totally ignored by the national news media. (The CFR and their surrogates also control the national news media. What a coincidence!)