Ohman Toon: Useless things

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[Liberal_in_LA]

1. awesome

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. awesome

[rhett o rick]

3. awesome x 2

[Lorien]

4. The stock portfolios of the uber rich recovered

Mission accomplished! Nothing more to do or see here. Move along.

[Raineyb]

5. Excellent and spot on! K&R! n/t

[Poboy]

6. k&r

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Sorry. Wrong thread.

[eridani]

8. The worst of it is that this is the 3rd jobless recovery n/t

[bvar22]

17. AND,

they followed the Blueprint FOR a "Jobless Recovery".
This IS a Jobless Recovery by DESIGN.

[orbitalman]

9. DAMN STRAIGHT n/t

[laughingliberal]

10. K & R nt

[LawnKorn]

11. K&R

[Axle_techie]

12. K&R

[NewJeffCT]

13. The Bush presidency was essentially jobless

for the entire 8 years... and, most of the job creation was government jobs (Homeland Security creation & expansion for one)

[OwnedByFerrets]

14. k and r

[zehnkatzen]

15. And would you believe that he identifies as a Republican?

It's true. As a Portlander - Ohman is the resident editorial 'toonist for The Oregonian - I've followed his career for many years now. He just gets sharper and better as time goes on.

And he did write, once, that he identified as a Republican. Which means he's one of the last sane Republicans out there ... A Tom McCall/Vic Atiyeh Republican.

Good guy. I feel lucky that we have him local.

[lunatica]

16. I must agree

[alberg]

18. For Big Business MultiNational Corporations - Jobs are considered a necessary evil.

I know because I worked in that world for many, many years.

The prime directive is PROFITS - not JOBS.

That's why they use every opportunity to "downsize" - i.e. fire loyal employees who have helped them in the past to generate those profits.

That's why they use every opportunity to "outsource" - i.e. transfer the work to some impoverished part of the world where exploited workers will toil for a few dollars a month and no benefits.

That's why it's not an accident that their profits are up and employment is down - it's planned that way.

The only way jobs are coming back is if the US changes its' industrial policy to make employment a national priority.

Small business creates jobs.

Public Sector projects create jobs.

Big Business creates as few jobs as possible while still keeping the profit engine running.

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19. kick n/t