Another guy was laid-off by a small manufacturing firm, with a promise of rehiring when conditions improved. Conditions improved, for the management, but they had found a nifty way to save money by going with robots to do the heavy lifting. After 30 years his job was eliminated completely and now, since he’s over 55, his prospects for even minimum wage employment are between slim and none.

This is what’s happening on the ‘front lines’ of our depression that the Big Media rarely talk about. Some few have been helped by Obama’s stimulus package, but many more are still circling the drain.

Either Obama proposes and passes FDR-style job programs similar to the CCC, WPA, et al, and puts America back to work at good-paying jobs, or this country is finished — we’ll be in an economic collapse that will dwarf the Great Depression. That’s the ‘reality’ Obama’s coterie such as Robert Gibbs apparently don’t understand.

BTW, Greg, I tried posting this at the Madison Examiner site but kept getting an error message that said it contained profanity and must be corrected before they would publish it. I have no idea what’s profane in this message, so I couldn’t correct it.