Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Jobless and Clueless: America's Delusional Democracy

Global Research
Joel S. Hirschhorn

When Americans who are the most victimized by our cruel economy still believe in something that is demonstrably no longer true, they are deeply delusional.  They desperately want to believe in something once great about American society.  The reality is that upward economic mobility has been destroyed, replaced by widely observable downward mobility.  Some of the mostly younger jobless that have embraced the Occupy Wall Street and related Occupy efforts know the truth.

Consider the results of a new survey of unemployed adults this month:

    "More than half of those polled said that they had experienced emotional or mental health problems like anxiety or depression because of their lack of work, and nearly half said that they had felt embarrassed or ashamed not to have jobs."

    "More than a third said that they had had more conflicts or arguments with family and friends because of being jobless."

    "Threats of foreclosure or eviction were reported by a fifth of the unemployed, and one in eight said that they had moved in with relatives or friends."

    "More than half said that they lacked health insurance."

    "A fifth said that they had received food from a nonprofit organization."

    "Nearly two-th [...]



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