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*Where Have All*
*The Jobs Gone?*

*Dan Frank , *
*the Constitution Party 2008 nominee** **for Congress **in **Pennsylvania’s
**16th District, *
* like many other CP candidates, *
*made **the fight **for **American Jobs *
*a **primary campaign issue in 2008.*
**
*Dan Frank was right!*
**
[image: ABC News] <http://abcnews.go.com/>
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 <http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/wireStory?id=6391113E>.
*  <http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=4217412>*

“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
<http://blogs.abcnews.com/moneybeat/2008/12/recession-hits.html>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.

Copyright (c) 2008 ABC News Internet Ventures

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* *
*What Change?
***
*by Chuck Baldwin
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!)
So, while the occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may have changed, there
will be no real change to the direction of these United States. Count on it!

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