The question for Democrats is whether there is anything that will wake them up to their obligation to extend a powerful hand to ordinary Americans and help them take the government, including the Supreme Court, back from the big banks, the giant corporations and the myriad other predatory interests that put the value of a dollar high above the value of human beings……
Those at the bottom of the economic heap seem all but doomed in this environment. The Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston put the matter in stark perspective after analyzing the employment challenges facing young people in Chicago: “Labor market conditions for 16-19 and 20-24-year-olds in the city of Chicago in 2009 are the equivalent of a Great Depression-era, especially for young black men.”
I absolutely agree. Unfortunately, money and huge corporations talk louder than the needs of the hard-working Americans who make this place so great. In a lot of ways, I almost just want to be a part of the machine and make my millions to buy myself clout. How awful does that sounds? I never would have imagined myself thinking that back in college…
Side note: I may not be a black man, but the likelihood of me finding a job here seems bleak. Time to get out of here and search of work elsewhere? A suivre!
