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Good post. There was one part that made me laugh out loud though...teeth_smile
Snowman39 1571 reads
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You said...

"Well, I mostly agree with you. But, then there's the evil corporations hiring the evil ad agencies to make market analysis and ads to convince us we need and deserve the best, and more and more of it."

It made me laugh becuse the thought crossed my mind....

HELL, AT LEAST THEY ARE HIRING SOMEONE TO DO SOMETHING ;-)

I enjoyed the thread :-)

Snowman392409 reads

Get off your ass and get to work!!!

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mattradd1429 reads

With 4 people applying for every one job, the math, hence the problem is quite obvious. Unless of course you're just being your old partisan self.

Oh! And look! When did the jobless rate be begin, and accelerate to the greatest percent of change: under Bush. Oops! I know! I'm not suppose to mention his name. Ya, the housing bubble bursting, and the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression started on Bush's watch. That's just a fact of history!

Related Link: http://www.epi.org/publication/job-seekers-ratio-above-4-to-1/

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Snowman391495 reads

Obama is entering his 4th year as POTUS and the unemployment rate is still horrid.

And you want to talk about Bush, PLEASE, YOU ARE PUTTING THE NATION TO SLEEP WITH THAT ARGUMENT.

Oh, and if there are four people applying for a job, make sure you have the education and skills to get the job!! It it YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to make yourself employable, not for someone to just provide you a job.


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mattradd1990 reads

History is history whether you choose to acknowledge it or not. Facts are facts whether you choose to acknowledge them. Assuming that there are not enough qualified applicants for available jobs is so much baloney. The are shortages of qualified applicants to some high tech, high finance and science jobs, but that is a small percentage of the available jobs. Obama wants to improve our educational system to file those, because there are not enough young adults who's parents could afford to send them to get the best education and training to fill them.  Romney wants to give them to highly educated and trained immigrants. Pick your poison!

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Snowman392486 reads

But history does not FIX THE PROBLEM!!!

OK, fun is fun, but here is the TRUTH!!

Is the income gap widening, YES. But it really has to do with the manufacturing base of this country dying!! All the jobs in the factories that carried close to 100K salaries and huge benefits packages are gone.

And they are NOT coming back.

But damn, how expensive do you have to make something for a company to say screw it, we will fire everyone over here, rebuild all this crap overseas and pay all the expensive shipping costs and tariffs, and it will STILL be cheaper than building it in the US.

Perhaps someone should have broken it to the union that just because you turn a screw for 30 years does not make it a 100K/yr skill.

Here is the real shame about it though, people want to blame "evil corporations" for this.

I am calling BULLSHIT on that. The real reason, the AMERICAN CONSUMER. They want the absolute best at the absolute lowest price. Isn't it funny how everyone bitches about that new Wal-Mart they are building, but as soon as it goes up the parking lot is PACKED!!!

If the american people want to know why there is a growing income gap, they need to LOOK IN THE MIRROR!!

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mattradd1779 reads

We agree on something!  "Here is the real shame about it though, people want to blame "evil corporations" for this. I am calling BULLSHIT on that. The real reason, the AMERICAN CONSUMER. They want the absolute best at the absolute lowest price. Isn't it funny how everyone bitches about that new Wal-Mart they are building, but as soon as it goes up the parking lot is PACKED!!! If the american people want to know why there is a growing income gap, they need to LOOK IN THE MIRROR!!"

Well, I mostly agree with you. But, then there's the evil corporations hiring the evil ad agencies to make market analysis and ads to convince us we need and deserve the best, and more and more of it. The poorest of poor can wear the same shoes as Michael Jordan or Koby Bryant. And, the kid just out of college can have his beemer, while living with his parents.

But, you're right; it's up to each of us to turn our backs on this consumerism run amok. Of course, if we all do, the ship will sink even faster. But, no one would guess my income based on the car I drive, or the home I have, or the watch I wear, nor all the possessions I have, and that's just all right by me. I knew the slow death of consumerism would eventually do us in, but then I really saw the writing on the wall when President Bush, right after 9/11 made it clear that our response to the tragedy should not be to slow down our spending. It was said in reference to not allowing terrorism to change us our way of living, but saying it when the nation was still in shock and mourning struck me as out of place, and showed where our true vulnerability was as a nation.

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Snowman391572 reads

You said...

"Well, I mostly agree with you. But, then there's the evil corporations hiring the evil ad agencies to make market analysis and ads to convince us we need and deserve the best, and more and more of it."

It made me laugh becuse the thought crossed my mind....

HELL, AT LEAST THEY ARE HIRING SOMEONE TO DO SOMETHING ;-)

I enjoyed the thread :-)

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