Dispatches from the front (NYT):
GM to Cut 30,000 Jobs and Close 12 Plants
For a GM Family, the American Dream Vanishes

It's obvious now that we made a mistake here in coming up with our "War on the Poor" tag to describe the rapacious and ruinous policies of the Bush Regime, and the brutal corporate ethos it represents. For it's not just a war on the poor, of course. That war was won long ago; Bush and the boys grind the poor beneath their heels just for the hell of it these days, just for kicks, a sadistic thrill. No, it's also a war against working people, against the middle class, against the very idea that there is a common good beyond the raw bottom line, that individual human lives and human communities have any intrinsic value or meaning whatsoever, except as raw material to be squeezed for blood money and chump chang

Updated: 11:34 a.m. ET Nov. 21, 2005

DETROIT - General Motors Corp. will eliminate 30,000 jobs and close nine North American assembly, stamping and powertrain plants by 2008 as part of an effort to get production in line with demand and position the world's biggest automaker to start making money again after absorbing nearly $4 billion in losses so far this year.

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The Bush Administration's destabilization of the Middle East led to higher oil and gas prices -- which were then exacerbated by Hurricane Katrina's damage, damage the administration could have minimized with more foresight.

Now we see yet another consequence of the Bush crew's reckless policies:

Employers added only 56,000 jobs, just about a third of the number that many economists estimate is needed to keep up with population growth. The gain left the total number of payroll jobs "little changed," said Kathleen P. Utgoff, the commissioner of labor statistics.

...Auto dealers, department stores, clothing boutiques, hotels, bars and restaurants all cut jobs last month, the [Labor] department reported, after adjusting for seasonal variations.

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