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- Subject: Recovery? Don't Count on It /WW
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service ~ All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- Recovery? Don't count on it.
-
- By Andy Stapp
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- George Bush's plan for economic recovery is to lower taxes again
- on the Yacht Club set. The only specific employment increase
- Clinton offers in his platform is the hiring of 100,000 more
- police.
-
- And now Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, the
- banker's banker appointed by Reagan, testifies before Congress
- that whoever gets in the White House, unemployment is going to
- remain high. He predicted the jobless rate would decrease only 0.8
- percent by the end of next year. Big deal.
-
- That means the number officially out of work will decline from 10
- million to 9.2 million. Unless he's wrong and it gets worse, as
- has been the case over the past couple of months.
-
- Greenspan, after all, is the guy who announced a year ago last
- July that the country was in "a solid recovery." People merely
- have the impression that the economy is flagging says the Fed
- Chairman. "The recession ended last year," he told the Senators.
-
- As Greenspan was speaking, Smith Corona Corporation, the maker of
- typewriters and word processing equipment announced that in the
- next sixty days it would lay off every worker it employs in this
- country and move its entire operation to Mexico. Something like
- this happens every day.
-
- "The positive sign is that people are looking for work," one of
- the Federal Reserve Board Governors said a few weeks ago. The
- positive sign would be if they were finding it.
-
- Greenspan of course is no fool. He merely intends to convey the
- message that the current economic downturn, the worst since the
- Great Depression, will be declared over, even if there are still
- 17 million jobless and half-employed people left stranded. This is
- now to be seen as "normal."
-
- "We are looking at a phenomenon which we have not seen for half a
- century," he said. Last January Greenspan testified that, "There's
- no historical precedent for what's happening to the economy. There
- are forces at work that are outside the business cycle that we
- don't understand."
-
- As Larry Holmes, a national organizer of the Movement for a
- Peoples Assembly put it, "People are losing faith in the system.
- The breakdown of the capitalist economy is of an enduring and
- irrevocable character. It is time to free ourselves from the two
- big money political parties to more effectively struggle against
- their misrule at home and abroad."
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