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Wisconsin unemployment up - "jobless recovery" right on schedule
This entry was posted on 1/27/2010 2:54 AM and is filed under Economic misery The facilitators of, Obfuscation, Jobless Recovery, Wisconsin economic hell.
"Jobless Recovery." What a marvelous Orwellian gem. Ranking right up there with consummate double-speak terms like collateral damage, and friendly fire, the notion of recovering economically without gainfully employed citizenry is an absolute masterpiece in the art of obfuscation.
I hear the term surfaced during the Great Depression as a derogatory reference to the plight of the nation in those times. But behold, the "new norm" architects of, and apologists for, our current Second World Wisconsin economic rubric are not to be denied their new version of the obnoxious term.
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development has announced the unemployment in Wisconsin is up for December of 2009. Let me see...that would put the "jobless recovery," oh yes, right on schedule.
I hear Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan and his band of merry Republican and Democrat nanny-staters are coming to the rescue to save us. More retraining on the way for future jobs that will most likely never exist, et cetera. Funny...why rustle up a cavalry to save the economy now? Us working schleps out here were getting quite used to having our lives ruined over the last three to four years. I am not sure I am up to actually having anything but a part-time, seven-day-per-week, non-benefit, minimum-wage, third-shift, meritless...f....ing job. I have gotten kind of fond of living in my 20-year-old Chevy with my cat.
Perhaps in the spirit of the "jobless recovery," Sheridan and his Republican and Democrat lackeys can take my pathetic job totally away from me once and for all - finally end the misery - like shooting your dying dog - anything I can do to take one for the team...and contribute to...the "jobless recovery."
I see the good governor of the great state of Wisconsin gave his State of the State Address last night. I will say this for him. I have not heard so much gleeful obfuscation regarding a pile of economic dung being described as a dozen roses, since the architects of 'Nam kept reassuring us, "Everything will be just fine." How'd that work out by the way?
Thousands of Wisconsin jobs lost, thousands of Wisconsin lives ruined, thousands of Wisconsin workers sold out to cheaper Third-World labor cultures. - Did not hear much from the good Gov about that little bugaboo.
Boiled slowly like a frog, Wisconsinites woke up the other day economically dead. Remember that great line? "You can't handle the truth." And I will add, you can't afford to admit the truth either. The classic "spiral of silence." No one dares say what I have no problem pointing out and colleagues of mine have lived for four years - we are in economic hell. It's time to call this economy, and the cretins that caused it, its media, and the fools that continue to groom it and perpetuate it,...out!
Wisconsin has for all practical purposes economically collapsed and its good banal citizens have been boiled so slowly, they can't comprehend it. Let's call this for what it is - there is no recovery pending from this mess, fine people. There is no new technology on the horizon to employ millions of unemployed loyalists this time. And, if a new miracle product does miraculously appear - the Chinese will steal it.
Admit it. Wisconsin will not reconcile from this economic mess any time soon, or in some of our lifetimes for that matter. There is nothing Sheridan and his band of Republican and Democrat boobs can do to fix this one - except stir the boiling pot now and then. All of them good politicos that ushered this economic misery in, and the poor schleps that voted for them, will have to wallow in this economic hell-slop for a long...long....time.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
Chief Warrant Officer Two Joshua Michael Scott, 28, of Sun Prairie died Friday May 27, 2005 of injuries he sustained one day earlier when his helicopter was shot down by small-arms attack in Buhriz, Iraq. Buhriz is about 35 miles north of Baghdad. Scott's chopper was an OH-58 Kiowa Warrior class helicopter. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned Scott was a 1995 graduate of Sun Prairie High School. He enlisted in the Army just after high school. Chief Warrant Officer Scott arrived in Iraq in November 2004, with D Troop, 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. The unit's U.S. home is Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This was Scott's first assignment to a combat zone. The Journal Sentinel went on to say that just before deployment to Iraq, Joshua and his wife, Sherri, had just had their third child, a boy named Kross. The couple met at Sun Prairie High School and were married in 1999. In addition to son Kross and wife Sherri, at the time of Joshua's death he was survived by his mother, Cathy Scott; a grandmother, Doris Scott; a sister, Beverly; a 2-year-old daughter, Trynity; and, a 16-year-old son, Kenneth. Chief Warrant Officer Two Joshua Michael Scott was the 37th Wisconsin military service member killed in Iraq since the spring of 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
95,158 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,368 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,377 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
964 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
317 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
627 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,639 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,869 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
101 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
17 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
139 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
17 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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