So only one in ten workers is likely to get his or her old job back, and meanwhile, according to another jolly headline in the same newspaper...
Prolonged Aid to Unemployed Is Running Out.
Over the coming months, as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits, ending what for some has been a last bulwark against foreclosures and destitution.
And of course there's more bad news in the fine print.
For every job that becomes available, about six people are looking.
So more and more people are looking for jobs...
Initial weekly jobless claims rose by 25,000 to a seasonally adjusted 584,000 during the week ended July 25...
But there are fewer and fewer jobs...
"Although this level of weekly claims is well off the 643,000 high reported in the May 9th week, it still implies a 375,000 decline in payroll employment for the month."
And even among so many other gloomy factoids, it's still possible that the most salient predictor of our absurd economic future emerged from Obama's absurd beer-fest with Gates and Crowley, when the American beer industry protested that all the beer those three new best friends forever drank was "foreign beer," and one of those "foreign beers" was Budweiser, now owned by the giant Brazilian-Belgian beer-monster InterBrew-Ambev.
Now every little check Obama writes for more and bigger war in Afghanistan or unemployment benefits extended even beyond the current limit of 79 weeks (which is about to expire for hundreds of thousands of Americans), and all the really big checks to cover the ongoing $23.7 trillion financial meltdown...
All those checks will be underwritten by corporate and sovereign-fund monstrosities from faraway places, in return for bigger and bigger pieces of Fire-Sale America, and if anybody asks you what's even more American than Budweiser beer, the answer is...
Long-term unemployment and destitution.
