So CBS news tonight reports on the rising unemployment rate; it's now at 9.4%. The figure for teenagers is more than double that. In reality, these figures are both grossly under the actual figures.
Earlier, the local CBS news reported the increase in teen suicides. There have been numerous suicides with teenagers throwing themselves under trains here in the Bay Area. There will be all sorts of investigations as to why this is. Grief counselors are there for the rest of the youth and efforts will be made to discover what is causing this.
There is no linking of the two, the crisis of capitalism and the human crises like teen suicides. I wonder what it must be like to be a teenager in this world. What future is there? The politicians are rotten. Capitalism is destroying the environment and leaving them a cesspool to live in. They are bombarded with ads every minute of every day selling them everything from violent video games to magazines with mindless content about looks and sex. Their parents are out of work and about to lose their homes. Those that are not are working two jobs to stay in them. And another feature, coming after the ad here for erectile dysfunction, will cover the pain for children not being able to get enough to eat in this recession.
It is no wonder they are killing themselves. And what adds to this is the absence of a mass movement which gives youth, or their parents, a way out. This movement will develop and it will be the youth that will play a leading role in it as they have in all social movements. It is being delayed in part by the refusal of the Labor leaders to organize a fightback It was youth who shut down the WTO in Seattle lets not forget.
On another note I see Obama at Buchenwald with Elie Wiesel, the concentration camp survivor. Obama gives a fine speech and explains the need to keep these memorials to those that died there.
What was interesting was that while in Israel Palestine I don't think Obama went to Gaza. In fact he visited an Israeli village right outside Gaza where Hamas rockets had landed and basically gave support to the Zionist regime's massive slaughter in what is the largest concentration camp in the world.
Wiesel, talked of learning from history. Have we learned from the Holocaust? He mentioned Bosnia, Darfur, Cambodia and Rwanda but he too conveniently left out Gaza; as a supporter of the Zionist regime he is silent.
Obama talks of both sides in the Israel Palestinian issue making "tough choices". But both sides aren't equal. The Palestinian people are about to be handed another defeat from another US president.
Oh, here's the last story; an elephant and a dog that have become friends, Such tenderness, such trust" says the news reporter.
After setting us up to be depressed, disillusioned and helpless, they want to leave us in a good mood and with hope for the future. If a dog and an elephant can get along, why can't we?
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