I read a comment on this disheartening news item in another publication which simply said “Mission accomplished!” It is impossible to tell if the remark was meant to be serious or a joke or a combination of both, as in, satire. All are possibilities. Adding 4 million to the unemployment ranks does significantly increase the pool of labor and thus becomes a factor in lowering wages, wages already lowered in the past couple of years. Higher unemployment tends to keep working people on the job, working longer and harder and being more passive in their wage demands. It drives another nail in the coffin of the labor unions. With less money in circulation the value of money increases for those who have it and it keeps inflation at bay for the holders of debt. The prison of indebtedness closes in even more on both the poor and the middle class.
Money moves around the world without barriers and so do those who have it. It, and they, are not bound to the neighborhood or to the country.
So, “Mission accomplished”? You tell me your answer and I will tell you who you are and how much money you probably have, or who it is you have chosen to serve or are being paid to serve. A ditch digger, afraid for his job, may well choose to defend the hand that feeds him and his family. Slavery we may discover, is very much alive and well. Unemployment serves a purpose. It is the “invisible hand” of the tyrants among us.
