Termyn8or
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Merc, I want to almost say fuck you because I agree with you more than you maybe. It's not just that some of these jobs only last a week, it is not much better if they last a year or two. They don't actually bring in any new money so therefore are unsustainable. For example a highway project, let's say a guy gets a job for two years. The mortgage on a house can run 15-20 years, and most people take five years just to pay off a car. The net result is not the silver lining as described, to say the least.
I wanted in your other thread but you created a monster, and it gets into partisanship with some people no matter what you do. Perhaps the complete ommission of any names might help, but my disdain for the government is totally non-partisan. They are both responsible for this mess and neither side of the aisle is doing anything at all effective about it.
Now I don't know about the readers here, what kind of job everyone has and so forth, but there is a secrot of society that seemingly produces nothing, but makes money. These jobs are necessary, but they do not solve the base problem. Even if it is not we who do it, someone has to go out there and bring in some outside money. That means to make a product and sell it. Nothing more, nothing less.
I fix expensive TVs and a few other things. I don't bring in directly the sort of money of which I speak. The only thing good about my job is that all this shit is imported, so when I do my job I am slowing the flight of money out of this country. But I am still technically not bringing anything in. I guess I relegate that to thers, but the problem is that we seem to all have done that and now all we can do is shuffle the ever decreasing pile of money amongst ourselves.
The ills of this society run deep, much deeper than people think. Fully half of my friend/acquaintences are unemployed, most do not have cars or driver's licenses. Why ? There are no regular jobs, I mean like in factories and such. Those who work do so in resaurants and such, making half the money they used to make.
I see no difference in the parties worth mentioning. They are all the same, I could refer you to some jokes that seem to illustrate the point quite well down in the humor section. Years ago a Man who could read and write, and drive a car could make a living. He could learn to run a lathe or even a punch press. He could be assured of a job for quite some time if he can get there and produce. No more.
Thing is, people like that don't ask for nor need very much. If we have skills we command a better wage, but in the past they could make a living. Not everyone is cut out to be an insurance actualry or an engineer. Someone still has to put the pieces together. Now we let the Chinese do it. You simply can't make any money that way and that is what many people do not understand. While jobs in banking, insurance and the service industry may be important, it's all we seem to want to do, except for building roads and such, which still does not bring in any money directly.
What I see in the future is that we will move towards a seperatist economy, and not by choice. The USD will be deflated to the point where imports are too expensive. That might be good for my field, but it still does not directly bring in any money. I remember the boom in the housing market, as it happened they touted positive cash flow. Now how do we establish positive cash flow ?
The fact of the matter is that we are not. Perhaps we have forgotten how. All of the most lucrative industries that could do that have been relocated to China or some third world counry or something. Until we change the environment to make that process less desirable we face the same problems. There is one thing I can guarantee - we cannot solve these problems using the same thinking that caused them.
Nobody is on the mark here, although I would like to lay claim to that. I would have to be elected President to prove it, but I think the chances of that happening are about like my chances of winning the Olympics for Women's gymnastics. I would heavily penalize any business that moved their operations offshore, I would do alot of things. As President, public appearances would be rare, because I would be a prime candidate for assassination. The money people who molded this finacial environment are quite powerful. Just ask our most hated politicians, or those who got a piece of lead in the head.
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