Posted on 06/20/2009 4:33:21 PM PDT by reaganaut1
A "man-cession." That's what some economists are starting to call it. Of the 5.7 million jobs Americans lost between December 2007 and May 2009, nearly 80 percent had been held by men. Mark Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan, characterizes the recession as a "downturn" for women but a "catastrophe" for men.
Men are bearing the brunt of the current economic crisis because they predominate in manufacturing and construction, the hardest-hit sectors, which have lost more than 3 million jobs since December 2007. Women, by contrast, are a majority in recession-resistant fields such as education and health care, which gained 588,000 jobs during the same period. Rescuing hundreds of thousands of unemployed crane operators, welders, production line managers, and machine setters was never going to be easy. But the concerted opposition of several powerful women's groups has made it all but impossible. Consider what just happened with the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Last November, President-elect Obama addressed the devastation in the construction and manufacturing industries by proposing an ambitious New Deal-like program to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. He called for a two-year "shovel ready" stimulus program to modernize roads, bridges, schools, electrical grids, public transportation, and dams and made reinvigorating the hardest-hit sectors of the economy the goal of the legislation that would become the recovery act.
Women's groups were appalled. Grids? Dams? Opinion pieces immediately appeared in major newspapers with titles like "Where are the New Jobs for Women?" and "The Macho Stimulus Plan."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Is this the guy offering full bennies and good salary just for aswering phones? If so good luck - if necessary I could loan you a few bucks towards a rental car ...
Obi is sticking it to real men since they won’t let him join the club.
That's the general plan, I think.
Henry Ford used to say there are only 3 ways to create real wealth in this world—grow it, mine it, or make it.
Without wealth-creating manufacturing jobs there is no money to support jobs like health care and education. That is what California is learning the hard way.
These NOW women may be gleeful now and congratulating themselves on how clever they are, but they actually quite stupid and are shooting themselves in the foot.
Within living memory, the American feminist movement was a valiant, broad-based vehicle for social equality. It achieved historic victories and enjoys continuing, richly deserved prestige for its valor and success. But it has now harnessed that prestige to the ethos and methods of a conventional interest group.
And the author particularly gets this wrong:
Recall that the Obama administration has taken extraordinary steps to insulate itself from the machinations of organized lobbyists, establishing strict limits and procedures for contacts and communications of every sort.
It was apparent to me that the above was almost all window dressing that was intended to impress the credulous, and the author's initial belief in it is evidence it succeeded. If she still believes, the more of a fool she is.
Yet its first major policy initiative was transformed by an orchestrated barrage of emails, op-eds, online petitions, open letters, faxes, phone calls, scripted handshakes, and meetings. And the administration went to great lengths to satisfy its petitioners that their proposals had been adopted directly into law.
No surprise to me, considering it wasn't white males organizing the barrage.
Over my dead body.
That's part of the plan if you're over 65 or will be soon.
It was not designed or supposed to work.
It was designed to debauch the currency of the United States.
Wait until 2010 and you will see that it will be working as planned. In fact, drive by your local gas station and you will get a sneak preview.
Why should Ubama take responsibility for anything, when there is no independent press in the US to hold him to account? That sick socialist scumbag can brazenly do anything he wants, including fire inspector generals who whistleblow on his corrupt political cronies.
...just makes you all want to elect a victim feminist to the presidency, eh?
[Little irony and sarcasm there.]
Thanks for the post - Summers’s got the insightful thing going - it’s a WOW...
Might be a time to start a “bring your sons to work” day...
Yep, me too. One of whom was a conservative and, I thought, my best friend. Surprised me, but I still won’t talk to her anymore.
As Barry Obama and Barney Frank would say (in unison): Misshun accompwished!!
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