Where is Elaine Choa?, over 240,000 jobs lost!

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They can bring back slavery and have Full Employment!! :D

Esp if you don't include quality of life in the process....
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strange,

that idea is being bandied about in the collegiate circles....

so, who's first?

that's how the professor starts out the discussion, as I recalled...
 
The labor Dept is not responsible for increasing employment. Its responsibility is more like to protect labor I think ( maybe wrong )
The White House, Congress and Fed are responsible for national economic decisions and hence responsible for employment.

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/chao-bio.html
http://www.dol.gov/_sec/aboutosec/chao.htm

www.elitetrader.com welcomed her along with CNBC, upon her appointment some 6 or 7 years ago to this administration,

her distinct style and presentation before the cameras earned her one of the most distinctive presentation awards ever .... just review the comments from a few years ago, on ET

now that the real details of the real economy are no longer being window dressed, as more and more companies, factories, industries and such, as well as all the supportive smaller businesses (coffee shops, luncheon counters, etc.) loose jobs, where do we as an economy stand?

1. Employers actually slashed 80,000 jobs — the biggest number in five years and the third straight month of job losses ...

2. The national unemployment rate has rocketed higher — from 4.8% to 5.1% in March — the highest since Hurricane Katrina wiped out thousands of Gulf Coast businesses in 2005 ...

3. Job cuts in both January and February were far worse than previously reported. Payrolls for January and February were revised lower by a total of 67,000 jobs, and ...

4. Altogether, employers have cut a whopping 232,000 jobs from their payrolls since January.

(taken from: www.moneyandmarkets.com Weekend Edition, Sunday, April 6th, 2008, titled: "The Handwriting on the Wall for the U.S. Dollar — And What You MUST Do NOW by Larry Edelson ")


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So, where's the cheerleader Elaine on all these economic facts?
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Quote from WaveStrider:

They can bring back slavery and have Full Employment!! :D

Esp if you don't include quality of life in the process....
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Slavery also provided room,board and medical.
During Slavery there was no homelessness.

Probably very little black on black crime. Little drunkeness or drug use.
 
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its really pitiful that while the actual numeric number has increased (as you cited, from < $18 hr to $18 hr or above),

its that those dollars are so much more devalued during this same 8 year time period that the actual wage being cited has decreased even from the quoted $14 hourly in 2000.
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The cost of daily staples untill the last year has dropped greatly.

Color TV's for $100, $7 shirts, $200 computers....They say the poor save $1500 a year on clothing because of Walmart imports

So , untill now, The domestic buying power of the doller has exceed $18 per hour wage.

Of course now is the tricky part , My guess is that spending will decrease untill raw materials get back to normal prices
 
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Slavery also provided room,board and medical.
During Slavery there was no homelessness.

Probably very little black on black crime. Little drunkeness or drug use.
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So do the Favilias / Pavilias of Brazil,

So did the Ghettos during WWII in Poland,

So did the camps (internment, concentration and pow) during war time, both overseas and in the US internment camps,

So did other similar institutions that ground people into dust, whether temporary due to war or more permanent due to racism and injustice....

care to volunteer to sample what those conditions were like, since you painted such a polyana picture of them?

Holocost War Memorial in Wash, DC as well as in downtown NYC near the NYMEX, as well as in other cities around the world....
 
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So do the Favilias / Pavilias of Brazil,

So did the Ghettos during WWII in Poland,

So did the camps (internment, concentration and pow) during war time, both overseas and in the US internment camps,

So did other similar institutions that ground people into dust, whether temporary due to war or more permanent due to racism and injustice....

care to volunteer to sample what those conditions were like, since you painted such a polyana picture of them?

Holocost War Memorial in Wash, DC as well as in downtown NYC near the NYMEX, as well as in other cities around the world....
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Slavery also provided room, board and medical. Slavery means you can not leave.

Lets say the democrats mandate you to either government / company medical. Force a company to pay a minimum wage to ensure room and board payments(cost of living wages).

You the subject has only one choice , you decide what company you wish to take care of your benefits as forced to you by the government.

Slavery does not always mean oppression....you could say communism was pure slavery.

I would say the democrats promote wage slavery
 
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Slavery also provided room, board and medical. Slavery means you can not leave.

Lets say the democrats mandate you to either government / company medical. Force a company to pay a minimum wage to ensure room and board payments(cost of living wages).

You the subject has only one choice , you decide what company you wish to take care of your benefits as forced to you by the government.

Slavery does not always mean oppression....you could say communism was pure slavery.

I would say the democrats promote wage slavery
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again I ask:


care to volunteer to sample what those conditions were like, since you painted such a polyana picture of them?


very poor choice of words...
very lame justification....
very provacative conclusions, which could have been made and respected with a more intelligent use of different words and thoughts.

try coming near survivors and just mention any of those terms you so easily threw about and see if you don't provoke a violent and serious clash of words, actions, terms and otherwise....

care to be around holocost survivors?
care to be around some US Marine Veterans of Foreign Wars?
care to be around some Vietnam POW survivors?

and mention those terms in some positive light?

ever see what Beetle Bailey looked like after Sarge finished trashing him? (comic strip character)
 
anyone see her pathetic cameo role on CNBC yesterday?

of all the twisted things, she was praising the (dying American public) consumers as being resilient in the face of job losses, lowered economic outlook, recessionary times and suggesting that:

"they are still holding on". Then she did the head nod with her hair bouncing in agreement....


What a Labor Secretary. Is it any wonder, why in the face of such disbelief of the facts of the economic downturn that we have NO collective policies that benefit anyone other than the company's firing their staffs?

hey, let's give even more tax breaks to the company's offshoring jobs...

wonder if she'll have something positive to say about that too?
 
is she MIA?


where is she to take a swans' bow for all the 8 years of presiding over all these losses?


where is she to lambast and down play all the negative news, since it can't be viewed as political or partisian?

where is she?, now that her husband barely won reelection to the Senate?

where in the world is Elaine Chow? Labor Secretary
 
Quote from limitdown:

is she MIA?


where is she to take a swans' bow for all the 8 years of presiding over all these losses?


where is she to lambast and down play all the negative news, since it can't be viewed as political or partisian?

where is she?, now that her husband barely won reelection to the Senate?

where in the world is Elaine Chow? Labor Secretary
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Oh please. As if any politician's word can be taken. What about Carla Hill? Remember her? 1992, screaming and shouting about how many manufacturing jobs would be created out of the NAFTA treaty. She was right, she only lied about where those jobs would be created. They sure as hell weren't in America.

The smart money knew NAFTA was about making the rich richer, no different than the bailout making the bankers richer.
 
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