Unemployment has doubled since the Dems took over

[slippedcork]

Actually all three require training.

Btw, are you insuating that the C-J is not running PAID ADS because they are downsizing the paper?

No, I was referring about the size of the paper overall. I bought a Lexington Herald today and they combined the city and region with the front page part. I think I just spent my last 75 cents on that thing.

[kyfanatic]

This is from the Washington Post

Posted : April 3, 2009 1:26 PM

Well, the last time I checked, Obama and the Democratic Congress *could* do something about our outrageous unemployment numbers but have chosen not to. Look, outsourcing is accelerating, the rate has doubled since January. Obama just approved 165,000 new H1-B visas (March 31) and that certainly means that 165,000 American technology sector workers will join the better than 4.5 million American's loosing their job as a direct consequence of this program compatriots in the unemployment line! Microsoft, IBM, Boeing, HP, Dell, Apple, every major hi-tech corporation, has made recent announcements of American worker layoffs and operations moved to India. Congress could easily pass a series of special punitive taxes on these corporate Benedict Arnold's and reverse this nonsense. If you hit their Indian call centers with a $10 fee for every U.S. customer service call those jobs would move back PDQ. If you hit every H1-B visa with a $100,000 annual fee, the proceeds used to offset the damage done by displacing U.S. workers, open those companies up to lawsuits and fines if they do not hire a qualified U.S. citizen for those jobs, and establishing a pool to educate U.S. citizens to do those those jobs, otherwise. In other words, put the lie to Bill Gates and that smarmy ratbag at IBM and make them pay for their treason. Congress could, without impacting their lunatic free trade policies, do exactly what other countries are doing right now and cut unemployment by 50% or more. They wont, they get too much money from those companies, and horrors like that occurring in Binghamton today will become a common occurrence as people's fury boils over. This is, like it or not, Obama's fault.

[pontooner]

This is from the Washington Post

Posted : April 3, 2009 1:26 PM

Well, the last time I checked, Obama and the Democratic Congress *could* do something about our outrageous unemployment numbers but have chosen not to. Look, outsourcing is accelerating, the rate has doubled since January. Obama just approved 165,000 new H1-B visas (March 31) and that certainly means that 165,000 American technology sector workers will join the better than 4.5 million American's loosing their job as a direct consequence of this program compatriots in the unemployment line! Microsoft, IBM, Boeing, HP, Dell, Apple, every major hi-tech corporation, has made recent announcements of American worker layoffs and operations moved to India. Congress could easily pass a series of special punitive taxes on these corporate Benedict Arnold's and reverse this nonsense. If you hit their Indian call centers with a $10 fee for every U.S. customer service call those jobs would move back PDQ. If you hit every H1-B visa with a $100,000 annual fee, the proceeds used to offset the damage done by displacing U.S. workers, open those companies up to lawsuits and fines if they do not hire a qualified U.S. citizen for those jobs, and establishing a pool to educate U.S. citizens to do those those jobs, otherwise. In other words, put the lie to Bill Gates and that smarmy ratbag at IBM and make them pay for their treason. Congress could, without impacting their lunatic free trade policies, do exactly what other countries are doing right now and cut unemployment by 50% or more. They wont, they get too much money from those companies, and horrors like that occurring in Binghamton today will become a common occurrence as people's fury boils over. This is, like it or not, Obama's fault.

That's a post from a guy in the comment section of a story in The Washington Post you linked to eariler. It could all be true but I couldn't find anything to prove it was and good luck to you in your search.

I did find some other stuff you might find interesting while looking that says Obama has the exact opposite stance on outsourcing and the visas that you believe he has.

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbi...lobal+business

[kyfanatic]

That's a post from a guy in the comment section of a story in The Washington Post you linked to eariler. It could all be true but I couldn't find anything to prove it was and good luck to you in your search.

I did find some other stuff you might find interesting while looking that says Obama has the exact opposite stance on outsourcing and the visas that you believe he has.

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbi...lobal+business

Guess I'll find out directly from the horses mouth (or at least a flunky that works for him).I sent quite a few emails yesterday to Obama,Nancy (Uhggg) Pelosi,every Kentucky Senator and Representative,and the House and Senate Committee on Labor and Education.

[Tim_T]

No, I was referring about the size of the paper overall. I bought a Lexington Herald today and they combined the city and region with the front page part. I think I just spent my last 75 cents on that thing.

That is because in this economy, nobody is buying ads. Advertising drive the print and television media.

When did the economy go bad again?

[know1]

That is because in this economy, nobody is buying ads. Advertising drive the print and television media.

When did the economy go bad again?

I don't think it's due to the economy. I think it's due to technology. I don't understand why anyone even reads the paper anymore since you can get current news from many sources on demand on the web (computer or smartphone). Why would an advertiser spend money on something that is dying out?

It would be like advertising on the side of a horse and buggy in the 1950s.

I purchased my last newspaper about 8 years ago at least.

[Tim_T]

I don't think it's due to the economy. I think it's due to technology. I don't understand why anyone even reads the paper anymore since you can get current news from many sources on demand on the web (computer or smartphone). Why would an advertiser spend money on something that is dying out?

It would be like advertising on the side of a horse and buggy in the 1950s.

I purchased my last newspaper about 8 years ago at least.

Trust me the print media is going nowhere. Even the papers have web sites and they still have advertisers. Plus, a lot of magazines and newspapers put certaint extras on the web site but leave out valuable content. I am a magzine writer and I can tell you that the economy has hurt because when companies cut their budgets, advertising is one of the first things to get cut. I know of a couple of magazines that went out of business because of the lack of advertising dollars.

[know1]

Trust me the print media is going nowhere. Even the papers have web sites and they still have advertisers. Plus, a lot of magazines and newspapers put certaint extras on the web site but leave out valuable content. I am a magzine writer and I can tell you that the economy has hurt because when companies cut their budgets, advertising is one of the first things to get cut. I know of a couple of magazines that went out of business because of the lack of advertising dollars.

I work for a marketing agency and, while our revenue from clients has been off this year, the type of work we're doing has really shifted away from print and to digital - web, email, etc.. We went from constantly having multiple jobs at our printer to basically only having a print job every few weeks or so.

I still think it has more to do with technology than the economy, but you're correct in that advertising dollars are not as available right now.