A fascinating documentary of life for those that are educated and unexpectedly unemployed. The older you are the less likely your will find a job. Any debate in congress will show a dearth of any leadership on this issue. Quite simply, the leaders really don't give a damn. The politicians have jobs and their friends have jobs. That's all that really matters. I felt for all of those people and thought afterwards that the government should have a job for anyone that wants to work. Even if it has to be paid my increasing my taxes. The existing state of affairs is wrong.
Read any newspaper and it seems the American politicians answer to the unemployment problem is allowing more companies to outsource, adding more immigrants (to supposedly do the jobs Americans refuse to do, nothing to do with lowering wages) and lowering tariffs so that those foreign workers can continue working those outsourced "what used-to-be American" jobs. Does that make any sense? Doesn't to me either, until you realize those politicians work for corporations and pay lip service to ordinary voters. We have a different breed of American leader compared to those during the depression. The public wouldn't stand for immigration during that time and there also were tariffs. Even educated Jews facing persecution in Germany had difficulty immigrating to America during the 1930's because Americans knew that adding more immigrants in a time of high unemployment was exactly the wrong answer.
One last observation. There are only a couple of reviews of this enlightening show that should have been seen by all Americans. Sad that shows like "True Blood" or "Game of Thrones" are so much easier to watch on television. It appears the media's real work is just to distract Americans from the issues that matter. Shows like this never get the publicity they deserve.
Read any newspaper and it seems the American politicians answer to the unemployment problem is allowing more companies to outsource, adding more immigrants (to supposedly do the jobs Americans refuse to do, nothing to do with lowering wages) and lowering tariffs so that those foreign workers can continue working those outsourced "what used-to-be American" jobs. Does that make any sense? Doesn't to me either, until you realize those politicians work for corporations and pay lip service to ordinary voters. We have a different breed of American leader compared to those during the depression. The public wouldn't stand for immigration during that time and there also were tariffs. Even educated Jews facing persecution in Germany had difficulty immigrating to America during the 1930's because Americans knew that adding more immigrants in a time of high unemployment was exactly the wrong answer.
One last observation. There are only a couple of reviews of this enlightening show that should have been seen by all Americans. Sad that shows like "True Blood" or "Game of Thrones" are so much easier to watch on television. It appears the media's real work is just to distract Americans from the issues that matter. Shows like this never get the publicity they deserve.