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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: JULY 2008 – Bureau of Labor Statistics
The unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend down in July (-51,000), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Employment continued to fall in construction, manufacturing, and several service-providing industries, while health [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 1st, 2008 | Tags: American Voters, Corporate corruption, criminal, displaced persons, economy, great depression, homeless, job loss, Labor Statistics, lifestyle, outsourcing, stocks, unemployed, Wall Street | Category: Accountability, American Voters, Bush administration, Business, Corporate Corruption, Democracy In Action, Federal Cutbacks, Hypocracy, Labor Laws, Mismanagement, Politics, Povery, Tax Dollars, Wall Street, consequences, consumerism, depression, disparity, displaced persons, drugs, economic stimulus, economy, fiscal responsibility, food pantries, foreclosures, furlough, mental health, pay cuts, responsibility, taxpayers, unemployment | Comments (2)

… the more that talk of an “oil bubble” is replaced by a sullen consensus that prices are headed straight to the moon, the more likely it is we’ll get a major correction. Unfortunately, the main catalyst for this drop will likely be global economic collapse.

Posted by bosskitty July 7th, 2008 | Tags: credit crunch, economics, energy crisis, G8, Global Economy, Group of Eight rich nations, Oil, oil bubble | Category: Bush, Casualties, Clean Energy, G8, Global Economy, Oil, Politics, Refineries, catastrophe, consequences, consumerism, credit crunch, energy, fuel crisis, renewable energy | Comments (6)

Americans have become soft and impractical. Americans are consumer robots that are mesmerized by ‘image over substance’. That is exactly where America’s marketing geniuses have brought us. Some Americans are waking up to a world known by their grand parents and great grand parents. Frugal is no longer a ‘quaint concept’. Gas prices and their effect on food and necessities is the slap in the face we need to come out of the hypnosis we have been enjoying.

Posted by bosskitty May 25th, 2008 | Tags: big rigs, fuel crisis, Oil, transportation, trucking industry, trucks | Category: Accountability, Corporate corruption, Global Economy, Health, Mismanagement, Oil, Politics, Sino-Russian, Waste, changing planet, commercialism, consequences, consumerism, contradictions, denial, disinformation, economics, economy, fiscal responsibility, food, fuel crisis, fuel-efficiency, gas, marketing, profiteers, renewable energy, scams, trucking industry | Comments (2)

 
 
After watching the PBS/National Geographic Documentary: Strange Days on Planet Earth

I tried to remember what kind of educational preparation I received ages ago. I was taught to memorize boring charts about how US Government was arranged. Whitewashed snippets about American History and how wonderful we were, how awful the American Indians were and how brave [...]

Posted by bosskitty April 24th, 2008 | Category: Op-Ed, arrogance, changing planet, climate crisis, consequences, consumerism, critical resources | Comments (2)

Global Food Crisis At A Store Near You, Lifestyles To Change Soon

Posted by bosskitty April 11th, 2008 | Category: Banquet, Business, Casualties, Disaster, Foreign Policy, Health, Human Rights, Poor, Power Shift, Public Health, Rice, World Health, consequences, consumerism, economy, endanger, food, global community, markets, oil-for-food | Comments (4)