The pain of slow times in job creation
Even for Seattle, a city with more strength than much of the country, the picture tends to be mixed, perhaps contributing to the larger social discontent. Unemployment has come to Occupy Minds.
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I was in New York last week and stopped by the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park. It was a warm day, several men were playing bongo drums, and a few people were dancing to the beat. There were literally hundreds of signs in the park, many on the basic theme of income disparity and the free ride financial institutions seem to be getting.
But one sign stuck out as being both accurate and perhaps prescient: “We’re here We’re unemployed Get used to it.”
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Comments:
Posted Fri, Oct 21, 8:23 a.m. Inappropriate
So where is the State of Washington bank? The state deposits tax receipts at the bankrupt Bank of America which refuses to loan money to farmers and small businesses of WA. Time to follow the North Dakota model and form our own bank.
Posted Fri, Oct 21, 9:13 a.m. Inappropriate
Oh and here's another article as to why WA state should get out of BoA.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/21/is-bank-of-america-headed-for-the-glue-factory/
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