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The secret history of America's unemployed

Sep 12, 2011 07:58

from Salon.com/War Room
Monday, Sep 12, 2011 09:01 ET
By Steve Fraser, Joshua B. Freeman
( A demobilized workforce has become the norm. Can the swelling number of jobless change that? )

history of recessions, unions, austerity measures, global financial trainwreck of 2007-?, reaganomics, homelessness, corporate profits, keynesianism, 52 week lows, income inequality, poverty, banking sector, unemployment, gop, the great depression, panics, franklin d. roosevelt, 'capitalism', social safety nets, class war, washington, 50 state slump, civil unrest, ayn rand

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kayjayuu September 13 2011, 18:04:57 UTC

Very interesting read. I'm not exactly clear on just what measures they would want in protest, today. Clarify?

We don't see eye to eye on a lot of stuff (really? lol) but I'm not the enemy, I'm one of the people you need to bring around to your POV. I live in a state that's had a successful past in your ideologies. While I doubt it will happen for me, I remain open-minded about almost everything, even when I'm arguing knee-jerk.

If you haven't yet, you should see "Northern Lights," and read up on Gov. Bill Langer from the 20's and 30's. NPL history interests me.

And something I did not know/remember, but that may have contributed to the whole "why is North Dakota economically stable" question you keep posting about (from wiki): "Many remnants of the NPL's short reign continue today, including North Dakota Mill and Elevator and the Bank of North Dakota. Perhaps the most radical of the populist reforms, prohibition of corporate farming, or indeed even of corporate ownership of farmland, was enacted in 1932 by statewide initiative and ( ... )