There are 27 members on Barack Obama's job creation panel, and most of them are corporate executives. The formal name of the panel is the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which is kind of ironic considering the fact that many of the CEOs on the panel have been rapidly shipping jobs out of the United States. So what hope is there that things are going to turn around if many of the folks that are supposed to be helping Barack Obama create U.S. jobs are actively destroying them instead? And how is the American middle class ever supposed to recover if corporate executives keep taking their jobs away and sending them to the other side of the world where it is legal to pay slave labor wages? These issues go to the very heart of America's economic problems, and yet very few of our leaders are talking about them. But they should be talking about these things, because the economy is the number one issue for most American voters right now.
During most of the decades since World War II, the U.S. economy was a job creation machine.
But this past decade was different.
So how many total jobs do you think were created during the decade that just ended?
Would you believe zero?
Yes, it is true. A total of zero jobs were created last decade. The following is a quote from a recent article in Washington Monthly....
"If any single number captures the state of the American economy over the last decade, it is zero. That was the net gain in jobs between 1999 and 2009—nada, nil, zip. By painful contrast, from the 1940s through the 1990s, recessions came and went, but no decade ended without at least a 20 percent increase in the number of jobs."
But aren't we the greatest economy on earth?
Don't we have great success stories such as Apple and Microsoft and Google and Facebook?
How could we have created zero jobs over an entire decade?
Well, the truth is that globalism has fundamentally altered the relationship between the big corporations and the American people.
You see, they don't actually need most of us anymore. They can just set up facilities on the other side of the world and hire workers for 10 to 20 times less money.
Over the last couple of decades, tens of thousands of manufacturing facilities and millions of jobs have been shipped out of the United States.
Even many of the corporate executives on Obama's job creation panel are guilty of doing this.
The following facts were taken from a recent article in the Los Angeles Times....
*Ursula Burns, the CEO of Xerox, eliminated 4,500 U.S. jobs during the first six months of 2011.
*Kenneth I. Chenault, the CEO of American Express, got rid of 550 U.S. jobs earlier this year. But it wasn't because American Express was not making enough money. According to the Los Angeles Times, "American Express announced it had made $1.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, up 48% from the same period the previous year."
*Antonio M. Perez, the CEO of Eastman Kodak, got rid of 9,200 U.S. employees between 2004 and 2011.
*Jim McNerney, the CEO of Boeing, announced in January that 1,100 U.S. jobs would be eliminated. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reports that "Boeing reported that profits rose 20%, to $941 billion in the second quarter of 2011."
*Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, has eliminated 22,000 U.S. jobs over the last four years.
And as I noted in a recent article on The Economic Collapse Blog, if you go back even farther the job losses at GE get even larger. The truth is that it is standard operating procedure at GE to look for ways to aggressively cut jobs in the United States and GE has been adding thousands upon thousands of new jobs overseas.
In fact, just check out the following quote from a recent article posted on the Huffington Post....
As the administration struggles to prod businesses to create jobs at home, GE has been busy sending them abroad. Since Immelt took over in 2001, GE has shed 34,000 jobs in the U.S., according to its most recent annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But it's added 25,000 jobs overseas.
At the end of 2009, GE employed 36,000 more people abroad than it did in the U.S. In 2000, it was nearly the opposite.
So should we be disgusted by this?
Of course we should be.
About the only thing that the "experts" on Obama's jobs panel will be able to teach him is about how to ship U.S. jobs out of the country.
So it should be no great mystery as to why we have so many unemployed workers in the United States today.
And since we are now competing for jobs with workers on the other side of the globe, there is also substantial downward pressure on our wages and on the standard of living that we all enjoy.
The statistics tell us that incomes for middle class Americans just keep declining and declining and declining.
For example, the following comes from a recent article in the New York Times....
Between June 2009, when the recession officially ended, and June 2011, inflation-adjusted median household income fell 6.7 percent, to $49,909, according to a study by two former Census Bureau officials. During the recession — from December 2007 to June 2009 — household income fell 3.2 percent.
So are you alarmed that the number of unemployed Americans continues to go up and our incomes continue to go down?
You should be.
Rampant unemployment and declining incomes are also two of the biggest reasons for the current housing crisis. Without good jobs that pay well, Americans simply cannot afford to buy homes.
During the recent economic downturn, the homeownership rate in the United States experienced the largest drop that we have seen since the Great Depression.
When we buy stuff that is made in the United States, the money stays here and it goes to support U.S. businesses and U.S. workers.
When we buy stuff that is made overseas, the money that we spend does not support U.S. workers. If U.S. workers cannot find jobs, the tax base is diminished and the number of people receiving government assistance goes up.
The United States has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976, and since that time the United States has run a total trade deficit of more than 7.5 trillion dollars with the rest of the world.
That represents a whole lot of money that could have gone to U.S. workers. It also represents a whole lot of money that taxes could have been paid on.
But instead, Americans have become highly addicted to cheap stuff from overseas. Today, our stores are absolutely packed with stuff that was made in China.
Unfortunately, that also means that we are sending massive amounts of our money to the Chinese government. 7 of the 10 largest corporations in China are owned by the government. Many other key corporations in China are deeply subsidized by the government.
Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars that should go to support U.S. workers goes to China instead.
This is helping China to rise dramatically even as the United States falls apart.
The signs of this are everywhere.
For example, did you know that China has surpassed the United States and is now the largest PC market in the entire world?
But most of our lawmakers continue to insist that trade with China is a wonderful thing for us.
Even the construction of many of our roads and bridges is being outsourced to China. Just check out the following quote from a recent ABC News article....
In New York there is a $400 million renovation project on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge.
In California, there is a $7.2 billion project to rebuild the Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland.
In Alaska, there is a proposal for a $190 million bridge project.
These projects sound like steps in the right direction, but much of the work is going to Chinese government-owned firms.
"When we subsidize jobs in China, we're not creating any wealth in the United States," said Scott Paul, executive director for the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
If only our founding fathers could see us now, eh?
As China rises, big U.S. corporations are flocking to invest in that nation.
In a recent article, I noted some of the significant new investments that U.S. corporations are now making in China....
*Coca-Cola is opening up three new factories in China this year.
*Disney recently broke ground on a $4.4 billion project that will be known as Shanghai Disneyland.
*Procter & Gamble has invested over a billion dollars in operations in China.
*Caterpillar has built 16 factories in China and now employs more than 8,000 workers there.
*Ford is currently "building three factories in Chongqing as part of $1.6 billion investment that also includes another plant in Nanchang".
But as China rises, the U.S. continues to rot. We do not have nearly enough jobs for all of our workers and our state and local governments are going broke because there are not nearly enough tax dollars coming in.
Unfortunately, things are going to get even worse if something is not done quickly.
According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades.
Our economy is being radically transformed by globalization. The emerging "one world economy" is ripping the middle class to shreds and it is making us poorer as a nation.
Something has got to be done about the millions of jobs that are being shipped out of the United States, but unfortunately many of the corporate executives on Obama's job creation panel that are supposed to be helping create jobs are actively involved in booting our jobs out of the country instead.
We are in a whole lot of trouble.
The entire system is falling apart all around us and there seems to be no help on the horizon.
Source With Links: The American Dream
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Jerry Brown legalizes 12-year-old children giving 'consent' to Gardasil vaccine injections
Insanity prevailed in California once again today as Governor Jerry Brown signed bill AB499 allowing 12-year-old children the ability to consent to being injected with Gardasil vaccines without their parents' knowledge; yet at the same time the Governor banned the use of tanning beds by anyone under 18 unless they received parental consent (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011...).
For the record, HPV vaccines are widely linked to maiming and even killing countless children while contributing absolutely nothing to the body's real defense of cervical cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/031279_H...). The entire fabrication of quack science behind HPV vaccines is nothing but a corporation fantasy created to drum up sales for vaccines. In contrast to that, tanning beds have actually been scientifically shown to increase vitamin D levels in people who are deficient in vitamin D (http://www.naturalnews.com/024687_V...) -- and that includes the vast majority of the population living in California.
12-year-old children cannot give adult consent!
The whole idea that 12-year-old children can give "consent" to being injected with HPV vaccines is a total violation of common sense and yet another encroachment of the nanny state upon the rights of parents.
The idea that 12-year-old children can consent to invasive medical procedures that carry a very real risk of death is absurd. Is the state now going to say that 12-year-old children are adults and can buy beer, drive vehicles and consent to sexual encounters with other adults, too? If Jerry Brown is saying that 12-year-old children are old enough to make such major decisions about their sexual health, then by implication he's also saying that 12-year-olds have the right to decide, for example, that they want to have sex with a 20-year-old.
But that's crazy. This is why we have laws about sexual predators who target minors. It's based on the premise that minors do not yet have the worldview understanding to make well-informed decisions about their own wellbeing, and that they are thus easily preyed upon by those who would approach them with their own selfish agenda.
Such as the vaccine industry, for example. Now, by removing parental consent from the decision-making process for HPV vaccines, the vaccine industry can medically exploit children's bodies which sounds a lot like rape. And just as physically raping a child will leave permanent scars, HPV injections often cause their own permanent damage -- or even death!
Jerry Brown advocates the chemical raping of children
What I'm saying here -- and I want to be completely clear in my choice of words -- is that Jerry Brown promotes the chemical raping of children by the vaccine industry.
That he has sided with the vaccine industry over the lawful rights of parents is an outrage. This is disgusting, immoral behavior from a dangerously overreaching politician who now feels he has the power to usurp parents' rights and turn over their children to the whims of the criminal vaccine industry -- the same industry that uses children as guinea pigs to run outlandish medical experiments in countries around the world (http://www.naturalnews.com/019187.html).
The vaccine industry in particular is steeped in criminality, including one of its godfathers, Dr. Jonas Salk, who conducted illegal medical experiments on U.S. insane asylum residents (http://www.naturalnews.com/031564_J...).
At the same time, Gardasil has been found to be widely contaminated with rDNA from HPV strains (http://www.naturalnews.com/033585_G...), meaning that thanks to Jerry Brown, this contaminated and potentially deadly mish-mash of chemicals can be injected into 12-year-old children without their parents even knowing about it.
Thanks, Governor, for poisoning the children of California!
What's next: Chemotherapy for schoolgirls?
Think about the implications of this precedent in California. If the state now believes it can selectively "grant" children the right to consent to highly invasive and even deadly medical procedures, then where does this stop?
Will schools roll out preventive chemotherapy sessions for all fifth-grade girls with the claim that the state if preventing breast cancer by injecting young girls with toxic chemotherapy agents? Will schools allow children to consent to Big Pharma experimental vaccine trials without parental consent as long as those trials are excused as being for "public health?" Will California's public schools now start teaching children that oral sex is once again safe because even the little boys have been injected with HPV vaccines designed to prevent cervical cancer? Will they give lessons on oral sex in the classrooms to explain why even the boys are being lined up and injected with Gardasil?
One day, parents in California will find their little boys coming home from school and telling them, "Today at school we learned about oral sex and got Gardasil shots to protect us from disease! Here's my permission slip, which they let me sign myself! Aren't you proud of me?"
Total California cave-in to the criminal vaccine industry
You see, the insanity just never ends once you start giving in to the dark side of the vaccine industry. By signing this bill into law, Governor Jerry Brown has given his middle finger to California's parents and delivered millions of fresh, young children to the vaccine industry's insatiable desire for profit at any cost.
Yeah, this is blunt language, but these are issues of such seriousness that they call for total honesty about what just happened. Jerry Brown just let the vaccine industry chemically rape the children of California with a provably deadly vaccine that offers absolutely no scientifically-supportable benefits (unless, of course, you believe all the quack science fabricated by the vaccine makers themselves, which shouldn't count in any honest assessment of efficacy).
This is a reflection of the scam that Texas Governor Rick Perry tried to pull off with his ill-fated mandate of the Gardasil vaccine in Texas. That was eventually exposed as a total insider job with a key Rick Perry staffer being on the Merck payroll, and now Perry is paying the price in the Presidential race for his Big Brother vaccine mandate. Jerry Brown will probably never run for President, so he seems to be more concerned with leaving a legacy of some sort. What he doesn't realize is that his legacy will be a line of gravestones of dead and suffering children from the vaccine he "granted" those children the ability to accept without parental permission. This guy is going to be haunted by the souls of countless little boys and girls whose lives were stolen from them by deadly chemicals which were dishonestly marketed to them as safe.
Here comes the public school vaccine propaganda
Because what we're going to see now in California is a public school vaccination propaganda campaign that pressures little children into being vaccinated through a carefully-planned social engineering assault.
Public schools, which already lie to students about everything from world history to economics, will blatantly lie to the students about vaccines, stating things like "people who don't get vaccinated can spread disease" and then reinforcing vaccine acceptance with things like candy and donuts. This is the way social engineers operate: The make you unpopular or try to make you feel guilty if you don't do what they want you to do. But if you go along with their agenda, they reward you with social acceptance and food or monetary awards. I can see these schools even offering students $5 in cash if they accept the vaccine shots without parental consent.
There is no end to the evil trickery and the downright scientific fraud that will be committed in California to force these injections onto schoolchildren there. As NaturalNews readers already well know, the vaccine industry will stop at nothing to force its deadly chemicals onto infants, children and teens. Whether you think this is just a profit agenda or something far worse -- such as a population control agenda -- doesn't really matter. What matters is that by signing this law, Governor Jerry Brown has ensnared children in the state-run vaccine agenda while telling parents "Hands off your own children!"
The STATE shall decide what gets injected into your child from now on!
Let's face it, the idea that a 12-year-old child can give "consent" to any medical procedure is a total fiasco. If it weren't so sad, it would be laughable.
Keep in mind that by signing this bill, Jerry Brown is saying that children who are too young to watch a PG-13 movie without parental consent can suddenly say YES to being injected with what is essentially an experimental cocktail of viral fragments, toxic preservatives and neurologically damaging adjuvants.
Is this not a felony assault on children? If you jab some kid with a needle filled with toxins, that's a felony, even if they give you permission, right? So why is it suddenly okay for public school nurses to do the same thing even without parental consent?
Jerry Brown, you are a shameful human being and a sellout to the criminal vaccine industry. No matter what other good you may have done in public office, it can never outweigh the torrent of evil you have unleashed with this single irresponsible action. May these deaths weigh heavily upon your conscience as you burn in eternity for willfully violating the sacred bodies of countless innocent children who will now suffer and die because of your grotesque, nefarious actions.
Whether you believe in the quack science of vaccines or not, for God's sake let the PARENTS decide what should be done with their own children, not the (corrupt) state!
You gotta love California, folks: This is the state that believes fresh cow's milk is so dangerous for children that those who distribute it are charged with felony crimes and subjected to terror-level surveillance campaigns even when parents want the fresh milk for their babies. But toxic, deadly vaccines are so "safe" that children can give consent to them without their parents' approval whatsoever!
Let the Governor know what you think
Contact Governor Jerry Brown at:
http://gov.ca.gov/m_contact.php
Source With Links: NaturalNews.com
For the record, HPV vaccines are widely linked to maiming and even killing countless children while contributing absolutely nothing to the body's real defense of cervical cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/031279_H...). The entire fabrication of quack science behind HPV vaccines is nothing but a corporation fantasy created to drum up sales for vaccines. In contrast to that, tanning beds have actually been scientifically shown to increase vitamin D levels in people who are deficient in vitamin D (http://www.naturalnews.com/024687_V...) -- and that includes the vast majority of the population living in California.
12-year-old children cannot give adult consent!
The whole idea that 12-year-old children can give "consent" to being injected with HPV vaccines is a total violation of common sense and yet another encroachment of the nanny state upon the rights of parents.
The idea that 12-year-old children can consent to invasive medical procedures that carry a very real risk of death is absurd. Is the state now going to say that 12-year-old children are adults and can buy beer, drive vehicles and consent to sexual encounters with other adults, too? If Jerry Brown is saying that 12-year-old children are old enough to make such major decisions about their sexual health, then by implication he's also saying that 12-year-olds have the right to decide, for example, that they want to have sex with a 20-year-old.
But that's crazy. This is why we have laws about sexual predators who target minors. It's based on the premise that minors do not yet have the worldview understanding to make well-informed decisions about their own wellbeing, and that they are thus easily preyed upon by those who would approach them with their own selfish agenda.
Such as the vaccine industry, for example. Now, by removing parental consent from the decision-making process for HPV vaccines, the vaccine industry can medically exploit children's bodies which sounds a lot like rape. And just as physically raping a child will leave permanent scars, HPV injections often cause their own permanent damage -- or even death!
Jerry Brown advocates the chemical raping of children
What I'm saying here -- and I want to be completely clear in my choice of words -- is that Jerry Brown promotes the chemical raping of children by the vaccine industry.
That he has sided with the vaccine industry over the lawful rights of parents is an outrage. This is disgusting, immoral behavior from a dangerously overreaching politician who now feels he has the power to usurp parents' rights and turn over their children to the whims of the criminal vaccine industry -- the same industry that uses children as guinea pigs to run outlandish medical experiments in countries around the world (http://www.naturalnews.com/019187.html).
The vaccine industry in particular is steeped in criminality, including one of its godfathers, Dr. Jonas Salk, who conducted illegal medical experiments on U.S. insane asylum residents (http://www.naturalnews.com/031564_J...).
At the same time, Gardasil has been found to be widely contaminated with rDNA from HPV strains (http://www.naturalnews.com/033585_G...), meaning that thanks to Jerry Brown, this contaminated and potentially deadly mish-mash of chemicals can be injected into 12-year-old children without their parents even knowing about it.
Thanks, Governor, for poisoning the children of California!
What's next: Chemotherapy for schoolgirls?
Think about the implications of this precedent in California. If the state now believes it can selectively "grant" children the right to consent to highly invasive and even deadly medical procedures, then where does this stop?
Will schools roll out preventive chemotherapy sessions for all fifth-grade girls with the claim that the state if preventing breast cancer by injecting young girls with toxic chemotherapy agents? Will schools allow children to consent to Big Pharma experimental vaccine trials without parental consent as long as those trials are excused as being for "public health?" Will California's public schools now start teaching children that oral sex is once again safe because even the little boys have been injected with HPV vaccines designed to prevent cervical cancer? Will they give lessons on oral sex in the classrooms to explain why even the boys are being lined up and injected with Gardasil?
One day, parents in California will find their little boys coming home from school and telling them, "Today at school we learned about oral sex and got Gardasil shots to protect us from disease! Here's my permission slip, which they let me sign myself! Aren't you proud of me?"
Total California cave-in to the criminal vaccine industry
You see, the insanity just never ends once you start giving in to the dark side of the vaccine industry. By signing this bill into law, Governor Jerry Brown has given his middle finger to California's parents and delivered millions of fresh, young children to the vaccine industry's insatiable desire for profit at any cost.
Yeah, this is blunt language, but these are issues of such seriousness that they call for total honesty about what just happened. Jerry Brown just let the vaccine industry chemically rape the children of California with a provably deadly vaccine that offers absolutely no scientifically-supportable benefits (unless, of course, you believe all the quack science fabricated by the vaccine makers themselves, which shouldn't count in any honest assessment of efficacy).
This is a reflection of the scam that Texas Governor Rick Perry tried to pull off with his ill-fated mandate of the Gardasil vaccine in Texas. That was eventually exposed as a total insider job with a key Rick Perry staffer being on the Merck payroll, and now Perry is paying the price in the Presidential race for his Big Brother vaccine mandate. Jerry Brown will probably never run for President, so he seems to be more concerned with leaving a legacy of some sort. What he doesn't realize is that his legacy will be a line of gravestones of dead and suffering children from the vaccine he "granted" those children the ability to accept without parental permission. This guy is going to be haunted by the souls of countless little boys and girls whose lives were stolen from them by deadly chemicals which were dishonestly marketed to them as safe.
Here comes the public school vaccine propaganda
Because what we're going to see now in California is a public school vaccination propaganda campaign that pressures little children into being vaccinated through a carefully-planned social engineering assault.
Public schools, which already lie to students about everything from world history to economics, will blatantly lie to the students about vaccines, stating things like "people who don't get vaccinated can spread disease" and then reinforcing vaccine acceptance with things like candy and donuts. This is the way social engineers operate: The make you unpopular or try to make you feel guilty if you don't do what they want you to do. But if you go along with their agenda, they reward you with social acceptance and food or monetary awards. I can see these schools even offering students $5 in cash if they accept the vaccine shots without parental consent.
There is no end to the evil trickery and the downright scientific fraud that will be committed in California to force these injections onto schoolchildren there. As NaturalNews readers already well know, the vaccine industry will stop at nothing to force its deadly chemicals onto infants, children and teens. Whether you think this is just a profit agenda or something far worse -- such as a population control agenda -- doesn't really matter. What matters is that by signing this law, Governor Jerry Brown has ensnared children in the state-run vaccine agenda while telling parents "Hands off your own children!"
The STATE shall decide what gets injected into your child from now on!
Let's face it, the idea that a 12-year-old child can give "consent" to any medical procedure is a total fiasco. If it weren't so sad, it would be laughable.
Keep in mind that by signing this bill, Jerry Brown is saying that children who are too young to watch a PG-13 movie without parental consent can suddenly say YES to being injected with what is essentially an experimental cocktail of viral fragments, toxic preservatives and neurologically damaging adjuvants.
Is this not a felony assault on children? If you jab some kid with a needle filled with toxins, that's a felony, even if they give you permission, right? So why is it suddenly okay for public school nurses to do the same thing even without parental consent?
Jerry Brown, you are a shameful human being and a sellout to the criminal vaccine industry. No matter what other good you may have done in public office, it can never outweigh the torrent of evil you have unleashed with this single irresponsible action. May these deaths weigh heavily upon your conscience as you burn in eternity for willfully violating the sacred bodies of countless innocent children who will now suffer and die because of your grotesque, nefarious actions.
Whether you believe in the quack science of vaccines or not, for God's sake let the PARENTS decide what should be done with their own children, not the (corrupt) state!
You gotta love California, folks: This is the state that believes fresh cow's milk is so dangerous for children that those who distribute it are charged with felony crimes and subjected to terror-level surveillance campaigns even when parents want the fresh milk for their babies. But toxic, deadly vaccines are so "safe" that children can give consent to them without their parents' approval whatsoever!
Let the Governor know what you think
Contact Governor Jerry Brown at:
http://gov.ca.gov/m_contact.php
Source With Links: NaturalNews.com
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