Is 9-10% unemployment going to be the new normal?

And if so....what are those millions of people who are unemployed going to do?

Honestly? If we get a severe winter this year, a lot of the homeless are going to die. A lot of those unemployed will become homeless. The competition for what little resources and shelters there are for homeless will be maxed out, and it will indeed be a survival of the fittest.

Local_Historian wrote: Honestly? If we get a severe winter this year, a lot of the homeless are going to die. A lot of those unemployed will become homeless. The competition for what little resources and shelters there are for homeless will be maxed out, and it will indeed be a survival of the fittest.

That sounds like the perfect time to start cutting social services, welfare, medicaid, unemployment. We can reduce our population and that in turn should reduce the unemployment rate doncha think?

I don't think so. Every time the economy undergoes a readjustment it looks like an apocalypse, then people find all the new opportunities that replace those lost.

chickaree wrote: I don't think so. Every time the economy undergoes a readjustment it looks like an apocalypse, then people find all the new opportunities that replace those lost.

You really think that's going to happen this time?

Absolutely. People are awfully quick to call the USA TKO'd. Every generation has had a similar crisis and we've always bounced back. I don't hold with the theory that people today are lesser being than those of the past.

Not every generation did it to themselves intentionally to prove a political point. The children are in the house.....(or more correctly, the House.)

chickaree wrote: Absolutely. People are awfully quick to call the USA TKO'd. Every generation has had a similar crisis and we've always bounced back. I don't hold with the theory that people today are lesser being than those of the past.

I don't buy the theory that people are "lesser" today, either. That wasn't what I was referring to. I was referring to the fact that our economy is based on a doomed paradigm, one of infinite growth in a finite world.

Seems like time is running out for kidding ourselves on that one much longer.

archer wrote:

Local_Historian wrote: Honestly? If we get a severe winter this year, a lot of the homeless are going to die. A lot of those unemployed will become homeless. The competition for what little resources and shelters there are for homeless will be maxed out, and it will indeed be a survival of the fittest.

That sounds like the perfect time to start cutting social services, welfare, medicaid, unemployment. We can reduce our population and that in turn should reduce the unemployment rate doncha think?

So you advocate starving Americans to death to cut the unemployment rate just to make the president look good. You are despicable.

Now if you had said to reduce mankind's carbon footprint.............

neptunechimney wrote:

archer wrote:

Local_Historian wrote: Honestly? If we get a severe winter this year, a lot of the homeless are going to die. A lot of those unemployed will become homeless. The competition for what little resources and shelters there are for homeless will be maxed out, and it will indeed be a survival of the fittest.

That sounds like the perfect time to start cutting social services, welfare, medicaid, unemployment. We can reduce our population and that in turn should reduce the unemployment rate doncha think?

So you advocate starving Americans to death to cut the unemployment rate just to make the president look good. You are despicable.

Now if you had said to reduce mankind's carbon footprint.............

:rofl

I leave a carbon footprint every time I walk through the old fireplace ashes buried in the back yard.