100 Slaves 100 Enemies

Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst asked in a new study: What if the government took some of the money going toward the military and spent it instead on jobs in other sectors?

Commissioned by the Institute for Policy Studies and Women’s Action for New Directions, the report shows that the federal government could generate thousands more jobs, both directly and indirectly, by focusing spending on health care, education, or clean energy rather than on defense.

via Foreign Policy In Focus | The Secret About Jobs Military Contractors Don’t Want You to Know.

Students Pay Services to Obtain Internships – NYTimes.com.

As a child, who didn’t understand what having a job was about, I thought maybe people had to pay employers in order to have a job. My parents laughed at me.

Now it appears parents are paying companies, not to find unpaid internships for their children — that’s easy, apparently — but to get them in. In other words: payola. In other words, the rich get richer. In other words, it’s who you know or how much you’re willing to pay, which is determined by your amount of wealth. Just another small example of class warfare.

So, within a week I’ve seen a story where if you’re in debt, you become ineligible for jobs and you have to pay in order to get a job.

The advice used to be: We’re all whores, so you might as well be a high-priced whore. Now, apparently, we have to pay in order to receive the priviledge of whoring ourselves.

Hmmm, when will this all come to a head?

…In the U.S. economy, a 5 percent reduction in average work hours could save roughly 7 million jobs.

via Beat the Press Archive | The American Prospect.

I know what you’re thinking: “But I love my job! If I could I would work 5% more hours and have 5% less time to live my life, I would be so much happier!”