Johnny comes marching home -- to no job

THIS RECESSION WAS CAUSED BY THE MEDIA!!

wow --talk about ill-informed. Lemme guess, you're a conservative who still laughingly believes the economy is sound. lol!!

The economy is going to get worse a d will probably not see any great gains for at least a couple of years....as was predicted by economists, and stated by Obama months ago.

Chuck - this economy is being run by democrats. Has been since 2007. You have Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and then President Obama was elected to strengthen their hand in this mess. This is what you get with a liberal view of things running the show. It will get better when we have better people calling the shots. I am not saying republicans, I am saying better people. And yes, the media has had a lot to do with the way people are viewing our current state. They started encouraging people to walk away from their morrtgages about two years ago. I remember talking about it with my wife back then. I could not believe that you were hearing the news shows telling people that they were going to buried in their mortgages and all they would be able to do would be walk away. That is not positive thinking in my book.

Lemme me guess, you're a liberal and you are just going to sit back and wait for the liberal policy makers to make your life better. Have a long wait buddy.

I also own a business and would gladly hire a returning vet if there was work for them.

John and JH,

Really you guys are going to go with that pile of bull. No real recession and any that does exist is the DEMs and the Media's fault. Wow, how incredible inventive. No room in there for the banking/investment guys who upended the system. They have been stripping down the regulations on the banking system since Reagan(remember the S&Ls). I think there is plenty of room in the booby hut for both parties on this one.

This Recession was caused by the Senate And Congress passing the minimum wage increases! Read Economics 101.............every minimum wage increase is followed by a Recession. Pelosi did this to us and even wrote in yearly raises in the min. wage so how do we get out of that?

Actually Carter wrote so many regulations on the S & L's that the banking system could not function at all. Reagan did away with what Carter put in so that the banks could function again. During Carter's administration we had a mortgage with 14% interest on it. Clinton went even farther with deregulating banks which caused a disasterous mess.

This Recession was caused by the Senate And Congress passing the minimum wage increases! Read Economics 101.............every minimum wage increase is followed by a Recession.

Sources please?

The S.& L. crisis has been written out of the Reagan hagiography, but the fact is that deregulation in effect gave the industry — whose deposits were federally insured — a license to gamble with taxpayers’ money, at best, or simply to loot it, at worst. By the time the government closed the books on the affair, taxpayers had lost $130 billion, back when that was a lot of money.

But there was also a longer-term effect. Reagan-era legislative changes essentially ended New Deal restrictions on mortgage lending — restrictions that, in particular, limited the ability of families to buy homes without putting a significant amount of money down.

These restrictions were put in place in the 1930s by political leaders who had just experienced a terrible financial crisis, and were trying to prevent another. But by 1980 the memory of the Depression had faded. Government, declared Reagan, is the problem, not the solution; the magic of the marketplace must be set free. And so the precautionary rules were scrapped.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01krugman.html

Put the TSA down on the border chasing illegals.

Bob,

Wouldn't we be better served having them doing something constructive like repairing ports, bridges and dikes. Lets we want another katrina.

Wanted to add to my comment, and agree with the individual regarding non-citizens and/or illegals.

When individuals return who have risked their lives to protect our country--why should they not be entitled to a FREE education when any foreign or non-citizen is given priority and usually a free ride to college--they certainly have earned it.

Additionally, especially in the engineering and construction business, it is amazing just how many engineers are hired from foreign countries, work here through retirement and NEVER seek citizenship--soldiers should have the right to free education and first priority on these jobs.

Wake up media--no one holds any of you in particularly high regard, and the last week, with the coverage of Michael Jackson, when real news such as these soldiers plight has been silenced ...

The tragic economic outcomes of many families here in this country is inexcusable; when we used to be a strong and honorable country, concerned with "human rights" all over the world, and now Americans, those self consumed, narcissistic bankers, politicians, and CEO's have lost any sense of common decency, or concept of human rights to their own--have destroyed lives, some lives of individuals who are too old to begin again with their only concerns being how big is my bonus, and how good a lifestyle can I live by duping the hard working people out of THEIR money,

AMEN, AMEN,AMEN,AMEN,AMEN,AMEN,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amen!!! This country does a better job taking care of illegal immigrants then it does its own. The USA does a poor job in taking care of its elderly and veterrans. God help us all. I say let Madoff and all the other greedy CEO's who robbed Americans of their hard earned savings pay it back and put our returning soldiers back to work.

JazzJ
Include the career politicians in that list as they are the greediest of them all!

Danielle
The law says they have to provide a job but if they are no longer in business it is impossible and the ones who are must provide a comparable job that they are qualified to perform. So if they aren't qualifed they are up the creek.

The law states an employer MUST keep this job,, filled by a temp, but returned when the soldier does! IF within 1 year of deployment ie: Stop-loss and your fired!! Bushs plan all along. Along with the death benifits from guard to active is the diff of 25,000 for a dead National Guard or 400,000 for active duty..that is why NM was the first state to cover guard and reserves as active!! not DC they NEVER made that rule in DC.

These people shouldn't even bother coming to their home state here, where the unemployment is 15 percent. We are going to lose some good people that way. It's amazing to drive through other states and see buildings with signs on the bricks, lights in the windows and cars in the parking lots. In Michigan, it looks like the mid-1980s all over again, except this time the businesses will be razed rather than mothballed for future use.

They have to come home to their state with their units and they have signed contracts with the National Guard to fulfill. All of them have to finish their contracts but they can apply to be transferred to another region/unit wherever they can find employment. However, the unit in that region could be up for active duty which would put them in Afghanistan probably. They do have the option of going to college on GI loans which they earned a sign up amount of free college -most signed up just for that free college benefit. They also earned active duty amounts towards GI Home loans too.

Stop blaming Bush/Cheney and take a course in Political Science. It will explain the actually workings of the government. The Senate And Congress with their career politicans put us in this mess. They wrote the laws which caused it. They approved the budgets that paid for any military action, they are the ones to blame!!!

At what point does any of this become Obama's responsibility. I wonder if the White House policy of Blame Bush will continue through the next election.

I want results, not excuses from this administration. If they spent 1/4th the time trying to help this country as they did on blaming Bush and Republicans... Imagine.

Vote for the Constitution, not celebrities.

It is difficult to say when the Obama administration will become "responsible" for the mess Bush/Cheney and their administration put us in.  We are just now, 6 months into the Obama aministration, constantly (daily) discovering and uncovering the magnitude of their poor decisions.

I agree, Obama is now responsible for fixing the mess we have been put in for the last 8 years. But, it is impossible to believe that in just 6 months time that Obama would be able to fix "everything."  The problems are too enormous.

tf - Please look at any economic chart out there and tell me when the major decline started. 2007? What happened in 2007? Quit blaming the a republican administration.

JH, please post a link to an "economic chart" out there that corroborates what you think you know about who and what caused the recession? The Democrats took more seats in Congress in 2006, yet did not have enough clout to reverse any of Bush's ignorant, red policies. This country never fully recovered from the recession that started in 2001, following the 9/11 attacks. Who was President when that all happened? What party had a majority in the house and senate back then? Quit blaming Obama and the Democrats for the Bush/Republican ignorance and screw-ups. This recession is their fault entirely.

In 2007 the Democrats passed legislation to raise the Minimum Wages...................spiral effect.....if you know how that works if not it is anything changes in the loop it will cause everything else to change. So you raise the minimum wage and you lose jobs. Why? Because simply stated if an employer has 4 people making a wage of $5 an hour and his budget allows for $20 of labor cost for an hour -- and that minimum wage goes to $6 an hour he can no longer afford 4 people so one person loses their job. To cover the 4 people the employer must raise his prices which raise his tax obligations, meanwhile his suppliers had to raise their prices as well and he is no better off than before so one person still loses their job.

In the long run the person making min. wage is worse off than they were because things they need to buy are now more expensive. So every time the min. wage rises people lose their jobs. Meanwhile the companies can't stay competitive so they either close down or move somewhere that labor costs are cheaper, or subcontract work to foreign companies to make which loses more jobs.

Blame the Senate and Congress for this mess. They are trying to hide behind "it's Bush's fault" and people are believing them! They need to all lose their jobs!

Outsourcing work to foriegn countries has had a far larger negative effect on the economy than any minimum wage increase.

Not necessarily. I was in the National Guard and going Active duty is becoming harder and harder due to high retention rates.

The new GI Bill covers tuition up to the highest in-state tuition for 4 years, includes a $1000/year book stipend and a monthly stipend that is equivalent to E-5 Basic Housing Allowance (average of about $1300/month)). This is available to people who have been on active duty since September 11, 2009. There are length of service requirements. See the link below.

http://www.gibill.va.gov/

Here, Here. My son was regular army and is going to school on the GI bill. I'm housing him for nothing at a sacrifice (I'm single) so that he can go to school. Hopefully when he finishes in 3 years there will be a job for him. School should be an option to ANY person has served especially in Iraq and Afganistan.

School would be great but a lot of these soldiers have families to support. Many spouses pick deployments as a perfect time to make an exit. Custody battles and messy divorces are often part of the "welcome home" a soldier recieves.

can't!!! we are called the gimmi group looking for handouts and made sure we are reminded EVERY DAY but your right if the people would, or could tell the difference between an entitlment and a hand out, Veterans would not have a tude twords folks without a clue. No matter what year we were in Afganistan!!! 1979-end of time

Jeff,

Wow, the article I read was very supportive of the soldiers, it did not seem to be anti-military at all. The were primarily talking about Guardsmen coming home to areas where the factories have closed down and right now that is fairly wide spread. Further an awful lot of young soldiers did not really have careers going when they left. In the past a military background gave you a leg up on the job hunt, but when there are virtually no jobs to be had it is a leg up to no where. I think the point is since we are supposed to be investing money in an effort to stimulate the economy wouldn't these soldiers be a good place to start. There is plenty of infrastructure that needs repairing why can't the National Guard be involved. We bring them in during a flood the try and secure weak dikes in the mid west all the time. Why don't we use them to secure these weak dikes before the floods.

Not only do you lose the leg up, it is harder to find a job as a citizen soldier because what employer wants an employee that will be gone one out of every 4 years.

Or, maybe because the terrorists that continue to attack the U.S. and other European countries are still out there. It's not like Dubya said, when he said, "Mission accomplished." He opened Pandora's box and it can't be put away, now.

Yeah, they've replaced them with about 6 million illegal immigrants.  The government only cares about workers to the extent of controlling anarchy.  As long as their own pockets are full, nothing else really matters to them.  Unemployment works very well into their NWO plan, since it will level the playing field for all peons to work for less than nothing.

Amen to that!!!

Because some Americans consider a soldiers service and their willingness to lay down their lives for us, and the difficulties they are forced to deal with upon return to have great merit.

why is this a story in the first place it is as any order from the white house; now lets see will we stand behind our President or not??? crazy Republican obstructionist has never been much more then a hindrance what will stop them now there should not have been not a one face to watch them men git-off a plane it is the small things mamma's babies needing to start out doing right-now. Its got that Republican smell to it, the article THAT IS!

No soldier has done anything to protect our country since WW2. They are being used as tools to prop up our dying empire. They are brainwashed, professional murderers and they are making the world much more dangerous for everyone.

BONMAN,

Why join? Just so that you can be used like toilet paper by society.

Justin in Oregon--you referenced WWII and no soldier had done anything to protect our country. Do you not realize that WE were not only attacked in Pearl Harbor, BUT ALSO on 9/11.

I am very grateful to know that we have brave individuals willing to risk their lives to protect us--FROM OUR MOST RECENT ATTACK ON AMERICAN SOIL!

Sandy,

The perpetrators of 9/11 were agents of the American and Israeli governments. It was an inside job. Also, our government knew Pearl Harbor was coming, and did nothing to stop it because they were itching to join the war. Pretty much everything you've been taught to believe about this country and its history is a lie. Sorry, I'm not willing to risk my life or murder other people over lies.

Justin,take of the aluminum foil conehat and sign up to retake 3 rd grade.

stevie,your aluminum foil cone hat is so passe,get rid of it and visit the 21st Century with the rest of us.

Steve is right, Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and all the rest of thier cronies are the ones who set the stage for this disaster. Obama was elected into the situation. Unfortunately, Obamas tactic is to flood the economy with $$$$$$$$$$ and then just print more money.

Remind anyone here of Jimmy Carter? Inflation is surely the next wave (after to total fallout of the banks). The bankers are hedging on these homes with depreciated value hoping for a miracle from Washington. There will be no miracle from Washington so the banks will have to eat the housing loss.

Remind anyone of the savings and loan failures?

I attribute it (economic failure) mostly to Bush and now with the flooding of money into the inflation will squarely be on Obama. At least Obama isn't currently making an enemy of the world.