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-- the so-called post-mid-2009 recovery has been "the weakest and most lopsided....in the post-1945 period." But you'd never know it from TV touts, extolling what a small minority enjoy, all others not their concern.
America, in fact, is declining, not rising. Rasmus predicts "a major economic relapse" ahead as Washington plans painful domestic budget cuts (including raping essential entitlements and other vital social services) to sustain out-of-control war making and reward the nation's super rich already with too much.
As a result, the American dream is a bad joke. In his June 11 commentary, analyst Bob Chapman says its "lifeblood is being sucked out by free (not fair) trade, (predatory) globalization, offshoring and outsourcing" manufacturing and other jobs, leaving fewer employment opportunities at home for growing numbers (including new graduates) wondering how they'll ever get by.
In fact, 11.7 million new millennium manufacturing jobs disappeared as well as 440,000 businesses, mostly small and mid-sized ones trampled by corporate giants.
June 11 on the Progressive Radio News Hour, Professor John Kozy discussed his latest article titled, "Business and Jobs," saying predatory capitalism is unsustainable:
"In two short centuries, it:
-- turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters;
-- polluted the earth's atmosphere, streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans;
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