The Way We Work: Jobs That Are Gone                       And
finally, a word about how work used to sound.         GM
September 02, 2012 at 04:44 PM our jobs problem is not a
government problem. It is a Wall Street problem. Look how well
stocks are doing (Dow 13,000+), though we are in a recession.
Corporations answer to the quarterly call of shareholders, which
causes them to downsize when they smell a softening in revenue.
This causes higher unemployment, followed by less spending,
which softens revenue further, which causes more lay-offs, and
so on. This leads to the the riddle I heard from the RNC: if
Bush tax cuts have been in play for 10 years or so, where's the
trickle down? These cuts everybody is arguing over are in place
today, yet we dove into recession. It would appear they are not
helping. John Cocchiola September 02, 2012 at 04:55 PM First of
all, we're not in a recession. A recession is three consecutive
quarters of negative growth, this isn't much of a recovery, but
it is not a recession, yet