Forum Post: There are no Jobs and they are not coming back anytime soon

I realize that the focus of OWS is tenfold, but I do feel than many people are missing a very serious and important point. Basically this movement, I feel, was started because of the acute lack of jobs. Well, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but there are no jobs, and they are not coming back anytime in the near future. When you look at Ohio, I think it is, for example, has lost almost 38% of it's manufacturing jobs in the last decade, and that's just one state, you have an acute problem. This has been going on for the last three decades and it is my belief that the government has been well aware of this pending problem for some time. Look at how they pumped up the real estate market back in the 90's. Look at how the banks and credit card companies were dolling out the money like it was candy, say from around 2006 until the crises hit just before Obama's swearing in ceremony. The banks, the government, the corporations were all in on it. Anybody in the know all knew this was coming. They created a false illusion that everything was just hunky dory. You can't tell me that all the smart people running this world did not know this was coming. When Bush got on national TV, just before Obama was sworn in, and told everyone that we had a crises, that no one knew this was coming? Come on! I might have been born yesterday, but it wasn't last night. The government has been doing nothing but damage control for the last decade. Did we really need to go to war. No. Why didn't we just take those trillions we spent and are spending on the wars and beef up our security at the airports. I wouldn't mind security officers walking around with machine guns. They do it all the time in Europe. No. We started two wars. That's definitely a boost to the economy. But who did this benefit? Not the average Joe. Sure the average Joe has a job, but who really benefited? Wallstreet.

This was all not just a big accident. This has been coming down the pike for some time and the people in the know have rigged everything to their advantage to prepare for this. I am constantly amazed by the morons at Fox News for example that air all their crap about how to find a job, how to write a resume, how to interview, yada, yada, yada, when the real truth of the matter is, THERE ARE NO JOBS. You see all this crap coming out of the mouths of the politicians, "We need to creat Jobs." You can't create jobs out of thin air and as long as corporations are not bound by any moral or ethical obligation to create jobs in this country, they will continue to export all the jobs overseas and exploit what workers they do have here in the U.S.

So my advice is you better be in this game for the long haul. There is going to be a lot more suffering for a long time to come. We all need to really rethink what our priorities are and what makes us happy in life.