Fine mess you've gotten us into, New Economy

I'm violating my one-post-a-day mantra to offer this comment about what even the Associated Press calls the "'new normal' of higher joblessness and lower standards of living for many Americans."

The pop-up media - especially the AP - has long lived in denial of America's economic woes. In almost every year in recent memory, things get ever worse - but to hear the media tell it, you'd think Americans were swimming in dough. Until now.

Now - even with the current economic recovery - the AP reports that unemployment and poverty are the "new normal", thanks to the ravages of the New Economy. The jobs that have been killed in recent years don't seem to be coming back - because nobody tries to bring them back.

The problem has been expanding for over 20 years, but what used to seem like a fluke now appears permanent.

This story puts the kibosh on the mean-spirited canard that says those who can't get ahead have something wrong with them. If people with a college education can't even find a job, that's a problem with the system, not with the workforce.

If the government would halt companies from shipping jobs overseas, we'd have more jobs for Americans. In the meantime, we might as well make the best of a bad situation. I know firsthand about subpar wages and the lack of employment opportunities. So I've reached the point where I realize this country is mine and yours, and sometimes you have to grab what rightfully belongs to you - just to survive. To hell with the corporatists who scream that you didn't earn it. Trust me, you've earned it.

In the New Economy, it's about survival.

(Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5grRQ6dLLl9di4HgR4iI_gOesmUkwD9BEAN383)