The latest employment statistics for the US indicate that employers have eliminated about 80,000 existing slots. This means that even when the economy recovers, or gets a little bit better, or limps ahead more quickly, there are 80,000 job openings that no longer exist.
According to noted columnist Ziff Nada, in his latest notable comments, these 80,000 once-existing jobs will never be ready and waiting for some hard-working US citizen to apply for, accept, go to work, and earn a living. The jobs are gone forever. Nada then further made note of the facts that the preliminary March 2008 unemployment data will show that about 430,000 people were put out of work, and the unemployment rate went up to 5.1 percent from the earlier 4.8 figure.
In very somber gray type, surrounded by a black border and funereal designs, Ziff Nada notably noted the cold, heartless prose from the Bureau of Labor Statistics [THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: MARCH 2008]:
Over the past 3 months, payroll employment has declined by 232,000. In March, employment continued to fall in construction, manufacturing, and employment services, while health care, food services, and mining added jobs.The number of unemployed persons increased by 434,000 to 7.8 million in March, and the unemployment rate rose by 0.3 percentage point to 5.1 per-cent.
Since March 2007, the number of unemployed persons has increased by 1.1 million, and the unemployment rate has risen by 0.7 percentage point.
In March, the number of persons unemployed because they lost jobs increased by 300,000 to 4.2 million. Over the past 12 months, the number of unemployed job losers has increased by 914,000.
Mr. Ziff Nada then pointed out that even though only 80,000 jobs disappeared, somehow 300,000 people "lost jobs," which must mean that 220,000 of those jobs still exist and may be filled again at some point in the future. Also, "somehow," 434,000 people found various ways to become unemployed. Nada then pointed out that when the Bush administration took office in January 2001 there were 6,023,000 people officially out of work. Now these several years later, the Bush team can point to another massive failure of responsibility that proves their kind of government truly doesn't work, because March 2008 shows 7,815,000 people officially unemployed.
Ziff Nada's people contacted the Clinton, Obama, and McCain campaign people to see if there was any "what's up" commentary available. The Nada people have learned that the various candidates prefer not to talk with a notable columnist and guru of commentators because the professional politicians frequently act like total idiots when responding to tough questions. One of Nada's operatives has assured other journalists that it is not an "act;" the politicians really are idiots, which is why they prefer talking head TV programs in which the questions are asked by people with skill levels similar to their own.
A couple of campaign people told the Nada folks, strictly off the record, that Her Royal Clintoness will remind the workers of the USA that the Clintons, Vice-president Gore, and Senator Kerry all predicted and described the Bush administration's total inability to manage an economy or long-term job development. Further, Senator Clinton will put an end to bombing the bejabbers out of places with names we can't spell, which are inhabited by people whose names we can't pronounce, and spend those billions, instead, on building bridges, paving highways, securing our seaports and airports, and re-building New Orleans as well as some other devestated areas. She will appoint people as her secretaries of Housing and Urban Development, Treasury, Commerce, Labor, and Transportation who can read, write, and cipher numbers larger than ten.
At about the same time, a few campaign people explained, on the QT, at a no-host lunch that the Obamarama approach will be to focus on change by appointing truly new and different people, who have no ties to the Washington, D.C., establishment, to important cabinet posts which can affect the US economy, get business and industry back to the basics, pass some new legislation for unemployment compensation as well as focus on job training and re-education for displaced workers. Senator Obama will cease to bomb places, put an end to disastrous military procurement projects, and change the mission of the Department of Defense to suit its name--defense--rather than offense against the now non-existent globally capable enemy or enemies or whatever.
An operative for the Truth Serum campaign told Nada's people that Senator McCain will cut taxes and eliminate regulations. When asked why the McCain staff thought this would work, the senator's henchman stated that it has always worked, just like it did for Kennedy in 1961. When the Nada people pointed out that cutting taxes didn't work in a way to help the economy and create new jobs for Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, or Bush 43, the McSnit type threw his napkin in the soup, stood up, snapped "Did so, did so, did so," and stomped out of the restaurant.
Ralph Nader apparently asked, "Who cares? As long as my candidacy helps elect a right-wing crackpot all those bums will be out of work anyway."
Ron Paul pointed out that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a bureaucracy that cannot be trusted and should be eliminated, then the money saved could be used to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which will lead to full employment because so many American patriots will sign up to defend our glorious homeland from the zealots in Central Asia, the Middle East, Mexico, and Canada.
At the end of the day, Ziff Nada, noted columnist, went to his office, posted his notes, and handed out the pink slips to half his work force of writers, investigators, and researchers, which reduced the staff to himself, a secretary, and one private eye. Thus, Bush-o-nomics 101, and just imagine how it will change with $5.00 a gallon gas?
