The latest stats released today regarding American Unemployment states that approx. 7.9 million jobs are NOT coming back. On top of that shocker, estimates have begun to seriously consider all the factors that we, the unemployed, have been pointing out--with population growth, new workers entering the arena as they graduate from school,etc.--the real-life statistics say that approximately 10 million new job openings are necessary to put America back to work. At the rate that we are going, it will not happen till at least 2013.
2013 ! Meanwhile, it is also being noted that the current level of unemployment, across the country, is 9.5 %; something that has been unheard of for decades. Even as the government releases these numbers, it is also telling us that retailers are hardly hiring, as they, too, await the next wave of "the big recession" to hit. Meanwhile, Congress has adjourned for their vacation,not to be back to discuss unemployment benefits for the people who have no other safety net, until July 12th. Interesting, because it is around July 12th that the astrologers have predicted the giant planetary alignment of the "cross in the sky" and the next solar eclipse...hmmmmm. Something that has only occurred during great political upheaval and key historic moments in Earth's recorded past.
Will this conjunction have any meaning at all for people with no money for dinner that day? No money to pay for the mortgage or rent? No money to pay for their electric bills, or gas, or tuition for their children? No money for dentists nor for medical insurance coverage of any kind?
I guess we'll just have to wait and see...looking, as always, to the Heavens, for our destiny. Perhaps for our survival.
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